Rare snails die in storage mishap
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A faulty temperature control has killed about 800 rare giant snails taken from the Stockton plateau on the West Coast.
Conservationists said the deaths were avoidable and showed that "keeping wildlife in fridges" did not work.
The Department of Conservation (DOC) took nearly 6000 Powelliphanta snails off the plateau in 2007 to protect them from Solid Energy's Stockton opencast mine development.
Four thousand had been re-released, but about 1600 remained in three temperature-controlled cool rooms and environmental chambers at a holding facility in Hokitika.
Technical support manager for the West Coast Conservancy John Lyall said "the snail deaths are very upsetting as staff are committed to the care of the snails, and previous to the loss had been proud to be celebrating a great captive breeding result".
DOC spokeswoman Jose Watson said the snails were meant to be kept at 10 degrees Celsius, but a glitch sent the temperature in one of the cool rooms down to zero.
Source: Stuff.co.nz
In the Kitchen with Ina - Part 2
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WAYS TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND HAPPINESS BY EATING HOME-COOKED REAL FOODS:
ATTITUDE, STAPLES, IDEAS & UPGRADES
PART 2
Continuing with suggestions that are pertinent on the path of eating and cooking healthier real foods, perhaps you will remember a few forgotten gems and/or find a useful new suggestion from this next list.
MORE ON ATTITUDE
Grow your spirit connection to food:
Cook with love. Trite and very “60′s” sounding I know, but I’ve found that good intention really carries a transformative ingredient into my experience of food preparation. Sometimes stopping for a little gratitude check goes a long way. See for yourself. Shop at a farmer’s market when possible and/or join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Plant a seed, watch it grow, and eat it by making a small garden patch, growing
Source: GoodFood World