Green Options

A German study found that cows are major contributors to global warming, and it doesn’t matter if they’re raised on a conventional or an organic farm.

[Creative Commons photo by Jelle]

I’m with Stephanie Ernst over at change.org on this one, though: let’s not blame the poor cows. The culprit here is humans’ taste for meat and dairy and the sheer number of cows we have to raise to put beef on all of those plates.

In drought-stricken Kenya, male goats are forced to fire blanks by wearing a condom that will prevent them from breeding to save on scant resources.

Made from cowhide or anything from braided grass to discarded wood pieces or old sandals, the condom is not a sheath but a home made contraption that is designed to get in between the buck’s belly and the doe’s genitalia thus preventing mating.

In the absence of modern breeding methods in remote districts of Kenya mainly inhabited by Maasai herdsmen, the traditional condom, or olor in the local language, is secured under the belly with a rope or elastic strap.