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As more and more states and countries legalize marijuana, pot farms are springing up out there. In Canada (where it is still illegal), police discovered that a marijuana farm is being guarded by trained black bears, when they tried to raid it.

But the bears were benign: Instead of attacking they simply acted as guards and were actually quite tame, so the police were eventually able to arrest 2 pot farmers. BBC News quotes police sergeant Fred Mansveld as saying, “They were tame, they just sat around watching. At one point one of the bears climbed onto the hood of a police car, sat there for a bit and then jumped off.” The bears were fed dog food, so the farmers broke the law in 2 ways, since in Canada it’s also illegal to feed bears.
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We farm fish and we certainly farm fruits and vegetables. Insects are full of protein and while Americans don’t eat them, many other cultures do, so why not farm them? In the future, we may do just that (unless they get too powerful–in which case we’ll probably shoot them down and eat the roadkill).

Raising cows, pigs and sheep uses up 2/3 of the world’s farmland and produces 20% of all the greenhouse gases that are changing our climate. The UN wants us to eat less meat, so a natural alternative is insects. global warming. As a result, the United Nations and senior figures want to reduce the amount of meat we eat and the search is on for alternatives.
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It’s still going on: Thousands of fish have turned up dead at the mouth of Mississippi River.

PhysOrg.com quotes St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro as saying, “By our estimates there were thousands, and I’m talking about 5,000 to 15,000 dead fish.” He reported that crabs, sting rays, eel, drum, speckled trout and red fish were among the species of fish that turned up dead. Local investigators are not yet ready to blame the fish kill on oil, however.

Taffaro says, “We don’t want to jump to any conclusions because we’ve had some oxygen issues by the Bayou La Loutre Dam from time to time.”
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It depends on where the electricity they use is made – There is a feeling going around that after all the UFO sightings that have occurred, the next step is disclosure. Most of us assume that the next step after hybrid cars is electric vehicles. But before you plug in that car, you need to find out how your electricity is being MADE.
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