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Scientists race to develop farm animals to survive climate change
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 3, 2014 | By Evan Halper

Posted on 05/04/2014 6:55:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

When a team of researchers from the University of Delaware traveled to Africa two years ago to search for exemplary chickens, they weren't looking for plump thighs or delicious eggs.

They were seeking out birds that could survive a hotter planet.

The researchers were in the vanguard of food scientists, backed by millions of dollars from the federal government, racing to develop new breeds of farm animals that can stand up to the hazards of global warming.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climategate; failure; globalwanking; hoax; manbearpig; socialism
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1 posted on 05/04/2014 6:55:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

backed by millions of dollars from the federal government


2 posted on 05/04/2014 6:56:21 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

scam


3 posted on 05/04/2014 6:56:55 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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1-2 degrees Celsius...


4 posted on 05/04/2014 6:57:01 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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backed by millions of dollars from the federal government

Who would have imagined?

5 posted on 05/04/2014 6:57:41 AM PDT by madprof98
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Obama admin funds search for exemplary chicken.

The jokes write themselves.

6 posted on 05/04/2014 6:58:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ve asserted before, if we are actually going to experience cooling, GMO is going to be critical to saving our food supply.


7 posted on 05/04/2014 6:58:21 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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The irony is if they believe in climate change and believe in evolution, the chickens should adapt by themselves.


8 posted on 05/04/2014 6:58:26 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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Survive climate change?!? What?!? With all that extra food and water around?!?


9 posted on 05/04/2014 6:59:12 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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Because nothing survived the ice age or the medieval warm period!


10 posted on 05/04/2014 6:59:23 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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Yes, can you say massively huge government grants? Academics in our universities are some of the biggest whores on this planet.

They’ll do a study for you, research for you, all you need do is tell them the desired outcome/conclusion.


11 posted on 05/04/2014 6:59:24 AM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

People who participated in this scam should be arrested and tried. Certainly they’re as guilty of fraud as Bernie Madoff. Any time I’m reading something and the author mentions climate change or global warming, even in fiction or science fiction, the book hits the wall and he’s off my reading list.


12 posted on 05/04/2014 6:59:32 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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First of all, they only live about a year....maybe two. They are adapted to whatever they’re born into.


13 posted on 05/04/2014 7:00:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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This is the dumbest crap I have ever heard.


14 posted on 05/04/2014 7:01:15 AM PDT by dforest
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Life has been adapting to natural change on earth for 3 1/2 billion years but now liberals know that they can do it better.


15 posted on 05/04/2014 7:02:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: Sacajaweau

And the chicken they’re trying to develop will only live 7-8 weeks.


16 posted on 05/04/2014 7:02:36 AM PDT by txhurl (Trump/Cruz '16, and everybody else for Cabinet members.)
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Why does everyone totally ignore the good side to global warming. More farmable land. Vineyards in England!! I could put tomatoes in in April. (Except we’ve had the coldest Spring in CT since 1911!!)

I know, that doesn’t fit with the scams.


17 posted on 05/04/2014 7:03:00 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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Africa?? oh sorry this one was Made In China


18 posted on 05/04/2014 7:03:02 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In the end new Gorebull Warming approved farm animal will bear an uncanny resemblance to the common Hog.


19 posted on 05/04/2014 7:06:12 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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I once read a story about a man who happened upon a village where the inhabitants were all in a tizzy because, seeing the moon’s reflection in a pond, they believed that it had fallen from the sky, and were racking their brains trying to figure out how to get it out of the pond and back in its proper place. That’s what this lunacy reminds me of.


20 posted on 05/04/2014 7:06:24 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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