India Will Be World's Largest Beef Exporter in 2012
It certainly seems surprising at first, that a nation widely knowing for revering the cow would be a beef exporter at all. It all comes down to what you call beef.
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Last 60 Years In Australia Have Been Warmest in Past Millennium
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Nearly 10% of Western Hemisphere's Animals Won't Be Able to Outrun Climate Change
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