Plant-based phytogenics threaten big pharma’s pull on big ag, opening lucrative feed industry to emerging markets and eager investors

Anyone who has ever observed the reaction of a dog or cat five minutes after its having eaten grass can understand that phytogenics (plant-based compounds) generate healthy gut flora, protect animals from pathogens – pathogens that they typically expel by vomiting on your living room carpet. The use of phytogenics – plant-based compounds – in animal feed similarly, then, eliminates the need for expensive anti-fungals, de-worming agents, parasiticides, and anti-biotics in livestock. This point is particularly poignant when we recognize the fact that the USDA and the EU Livestock Feeding For Health In A New Era have now nearly banned all use of non-essential and especially growth-promoting anti-biotics on farm animals.

Paranoia Over Medical Marijuana Leaves Most Countries High and Dry

The level of paranoia over a plant with a four-thousand year history of serving as a curative – while being cheap as dirt, not requiring pesticides to grow in a range of climates, that can be used to make more than 50,000 items, and that can be woven with resins to become more than 20 times stronger than steel, is downright laughable. Any country that has started at least a medical marijuana tourism industry is laughing all the way to the bank, however.

Warmer bureaucratic climate would heat up Dubai live rock music scene

… those who want to hear raw – especially rock and roll – talent, aren’t typically among the moneyed set who can afford to shell out for it. A crowd of twenty or so chewing a bar’s nuts and nursing a couple of beers during a three-hour set won’t make any manager rich.

How much assistance do you need when buying a lipstick? A tale of a marketing tactic FAIL

Lost in thought at the perfume counter, imagining the gay face of my mother upon her spritizing the pretty bottle of L’Air du Temps that I cradle in my hands, imagining her twisting open its tiny cap of a crystalline bird in flight, do I really seem like I just might want shopgirls Bambi or Aurora whining Madaaaam, you try Poisonnnn???