Your Tax Dollars at Work Building Iraqi Feedlots

From our "good friends" at Agrilife News....

A recently established international partnership will focus on developing a “strong and viable beef and lamb feedlot industry” for Iraq, according to project participants.

The partnership between the Inma Agribusiness Program, U.S. Agency for International Development, and U.S. and Iraqi governmental agencies, universities and agribusiness groups and individuals will bring new private-sector economic opportunities to Iraq, they said.

“Through a combination of technical and financial support, the partnership will work toward making Iraq a top beef and lamb producer within the Arab world,” said Dr. Ma’ad Mohammed, Inma project coordinator for the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture of the Texas A&M System, a key program participant.

Military Dogs Play Roles in Iraq and Afghanistan

We chain them, use them for experiments, eat them in some countries and make them wear funny sweaters in others. But we also use them to fight our wars and intimidate our detainees.

The most famous example of military dogs is the Vietnam dogs who faithfully served American soldiers and then were abandoned to unknown fates after we left the country. But the grand tradition continues in Iraq and Afghanistan...

I don't like it. If humans insist on wars and invasions, we should keep them to ourselves and leave other species out of it.

Even better if we didn't insist on such activities in the first place.

Baghdad Zoo Wants Animals

It's bad enough to send animals to zoos, but to a zoo in Baghdad?? No way. It makes me sick thinking about the animals already there (numbering 1,500 including lions and tigers.)