🇩🇪 Food shortages in Europe, due to crackdown on farmers?
Metro CEO: "We will experience a situation here in Europe where we have to ensure that we guarantee the security of supply.
If you look at what is being done in Germany, fruit and vegetables and production in Germany, but also in Europe, how this changes and shifts, you have to go in the face of the manufacturers. So that they give us the products.
The availability of food will be the greater challenge in the long run than the price.”
He explained: the livestock in Germany is decreasing, so the company is increasingly buying its pork in Spain. There, however, less citrus fruits are harvested, which leads to a trip to Africa - and increases prices.
Greubel says about the ever-rising price of butter: "Everyone asks themselves: Why are butter prices going up? Because there are fewer cattle and the milk has a lower fat content, because the feed is worse when fertilizing regulations are changed.”
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If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different ...
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