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Maneka Gandhi column

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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