Posted on 03/29/2015 11:12:32 AM PDT by PROCON
Villagers in a rural district of Kenya are getting a helping hoof to adapt to climate change. A newly introduced breed of "supergoat" is cutting the number of months per year that villagers in the district of Nyando go hungry.
Galla goats are tough, but loving. They tolerate heat and drought and have great teeth (which means they rarely need to be culled due to worn-down chompers). The goats also produce a lot of nutritious milk and mature more quickly than the old straggly looking breeds that the Nyando farmers are used to keeping. And the females are really good moms, breeding and rearing kids for up to 10 years.
The goats were brought to Nyando by scientists at the CGIAR, a global agricultural research partnership to improve food security. The goats are part of the partnership's "climate smart villages" project, which helps farmers in the developing world adapt to climate change.
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Hmmm.....coming soon to the Middle East?
First Hillary has Super Volunteers. Now Super Goats?
Nice try with the climate change meme.
Not working, dork.
Buy a physics book.
I see it have nothing to do with climate change and all to do with having a little more food. More sex means more goats, which means more money (maybe..supply issue) and more food needed for the goats. It is not all cut and dried as it may seem. And when all is said and done the climate will be the same. For Kenya...Hot in the summer.
Supergoats sound like they will make great wives for lonely muzzies. Takes the pressure off the young boys in more ways than one.
Liberals are fun to laugh at.
Supergoats: Brought to you by the nanny state.
I fail to see how switching to these goats has a damn thing to do with climate change. Every reason given would be sufficient in and of itself to make the change. The rest is just verbal diarrhea falling from some liberal’s mouth. But, that’s one good thing about the Internet: It allows crap like this to be seen without an unnecessary denuding of the world’s forests.
This would be a good story were it not for the “Gore-Bull Warming” bs. Gee, hot and dry in parts of Africa? Never happened before, right? Kind of like the people in Southern CA complaining about drought. You morons moved to the desert; it is supposed to be dry. You moved there to get away from rain and have sunny days. Duh.
If this is a “supergoat”, shouldn’t he have a cape?
Pingy.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking Mohammad?
I think so Achmed,but what if the goat won’t wear the pantyhose?
That IS a very good question...
You can stop reading right there- anything that follows is probably equally as stupid.
MPR News.....about as relevant as NPR News.
uh, what good is milk when the locals are lactose deficient and can’t drink it?
and the solution is more jobs and industrialization, not supergoats so people can continue to live in their primitive villages.
as for climate change: the Sahara was green 10 000 years ago. Nothing new here. That’s why the tribes there moved to greener pastures.
More Democrats!
What the hell does a “supergoat” have to do with religion? put the crack pipe down.
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