Tainted food.

In Washington, the government reported Thursday, that several hundred of the 6,000 hogs have eaten tainted feed. The risk of human health may be very low. The government told three states that were involved, that the meat wasn't allowed to be sold from the hogs that had eaten the feed. The Agriculture Department concluded that the three states, New York, California and South Carolina, had no more than 345 hogs that ate the food. Most of the hogs that ate the feed are still on the farms that they were raised.

Three interesting facts that I learned were:

1) Some food could not be sold so they were fed to the hog farms.

2) Since mid-March, pet food companies have had more than 100 brands of dog and cat food and treats that were tainted.

3) The pet food sent to the farms was discovered to have an ingredient, rice protein concentrate, imported from China that was tainted by an industrial chemical, melamine.

I think that food shouldn't be given to farm animals if it isn't sold in the store. Then if people eat the meat from the animal, humans will become sick or will die.

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Largest coral die-off

You may hear of people being killed from natural causes, but this earthquake, which happened two years ago, in Jakarta, Indonesia caused the largest coral die-off ever documented. The scientists from the U.S.-based Wildlife Conservation Society and the government-backed Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, studied the product of the earthquake. Because of this earthquake, it caused the corals to have the largest die-off ever documented.

This problem can relate to science and life because the earthquake caused several people to die and the largest coral die-off.

In my opinion, the earthquake caused countless people to die and also caused the largest coral die-off. Even tough most of the coral had died, the scientist concluded that the coral would eventually grow back in several years to come. Because of this natural disaster, it took away the lives of several people, but the people in Indonesia couldn’t have predicted or done anything to help other’s death.

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