Tag: Maneka Gandhi column
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Quality of egg is an issue
The best eggs really come from hens that spend their days outdoors in a natural environment and scratch for insects, seeds and earthworms in the soil.
May 19, 2019 -
A gruesome fact on ‘pate foie gras’
Pate foie gras is French for fat liver paste of a duck or goose fattened by force in a process known as gavage. It is a luxury item because few countries allow it to be made, due to the extreme cruelty involved.
May 12, 2019 -
A community like ours
Ants normally keep a very clean nest, and usually throw out dangerous rubbish, like food remains and dead bodies. This piled-up dry waste is kept for defence, as building materials, and as manure for their crops.
May 5, 2019 -
Maggot therapy: A thousand-year-old healing technique
Doctors have found that large numbers of small maggots consume necrotic tissue far more precisely than surgeons can operate, and can remove foreign material and damaged tissue in a day or two
April 28, 2019 -
Before it’s too late
One day we will find that the millions of insects we have killed, through pest control, could have saved our lives
April 21, 2019 -
Gelatine: The horror product
Food & beverage is the biggest market for gelatine, followed by nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, photography, and cosmetics such as face creams, shampoos, hair sprays, soaps and nail polishes.
April 7, 2019 -
Game of ants
During a tournament whichever ant locks its jaws around the head of another ant wins. The winner gets a boost of a hormone, called dopamine, and this helps it in its next tournament. Dopamine starts activating their reproductive system, while the losers' reproductive capabilities shut down
March 31, 2019 -
Cow dung: A viable alternative to firewood
We need to change our attitude towards the cow. Milk is not the most important part of the cow, it is her dung. This dung should be used in the cremation grounds. For Hindus, the cow is sacred and so using cow dung, instead of wood, should not pose a problem
March 25, 2019 -
Do you eat food to be healthy or to get sick?
There are some things which any amount of washing, boiling or roasting cannot clean out - and those are drugs. There is a cocktail of them in your meat and all of them are going to go into your body
March 17, 2019 -
Our mythological birds
The Homa bird, of Vedic times, lives and breeds in the air, lays eggs in the air, and, before the eggs reach the earth, they hatch and the baby bird flies upward to join its mother. Persian, Turkish and Sufi poets praise them as divine birds, and birds of paradise
March 13, 2019 -
Termites: Fascinating insects!
Only a handful of the 3,000 or so known termite species are pests to people. The rest are soil engineers who create the ground under your feet and keep it healthy
March 3, 2019 -
A cruel place
India was a country where people lived together with animals and respected their lives. All this has changed in the last 50 years. What can you say about a country whose government says, happily, that 52 per cent of our exports are meat, fish and leather?
February 24, 2019 -
They are intelligent and affectionate
Research proves that goats try to communicate with people in the same way as dogs and horses do.
February 17, 2019 -
Business opportunities in this field
As a vegan entrepreneur you can be bold, sophisticated and yet harm no one. You can use the beauty and bounty of the earth and leave it better for both animals and humans.
February 15, 2019 -
Small is big
Like human beings, ants have often fought over food and territory. But ants began fighting with each other, or other nests of their own species, or other species, long before humans, at least 99 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth
February 5, 2019 -
Do you understand what birds say?
In mythology and medieval literature, the language of the birds is considered divine, used by them to communicate with only the initiated.
January 6, 2019 -
‘Make the world a much kinder place’
While the government, and all the courts, have ordered sterilisation of all dogs by all municipalities and district administrations, in reality less than a tenth of the country is doing it.
December 30, 2018