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This Bug’s Bite Can Turn You Into a Vegetarian
"It might sound like something out of PETA’s handbook of master plans, or a scheme by evil scientists fed up with climate change deniers. Either way, hundreds of people across the United States can no longer eat red meat because of a tick."
To Refrigerate, Or Not To Refrigerate? - The Chemistry of Tomatoes
"In short, the verdict seems to be that you can get away with storing fully ripe tomatoes in the fridge for up to a week to prevent them going off, before then leaving them out for a short time to recover their volatile compound producing ability"
Costa Rica Becomes First Latin American Country to Ban Hunting for Sport
I can understand hunting to eat, but catch-and-release seems cruel to me.
Male birds eat poison to attract females
And I thought humans were weird: "the toxins from the beetles also kill parasites that live in the birds’ reproductive orifice known as the cloaca .... The cloaca, which is also used for defecating, is then rigorously inspected by the femalev"

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