RNZ News: Greenpeace sues Fonterra over 100 percent grass-fed butter claim
Fonterra’s own rules allow up to 20 percent of the diet of their dairy cows to be feed that is not grass, while still able to be considered “grass fed”.
Greenpeace said this was a problem, as imported palm kernel feed was linked to the deforestation of rainforests in Southeast Asia, and customers deserved to know that their products were contributing to demand for it.
RNZ News: NZ author ‘thrilled’ over UK publisher bidding war
Catherine Chidgey’s dystopian ninth novel The Book of Guilt is a “sinisterly skewed version” of the UK in 1979. The story follows 13-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William, who are the last remaining residents of a home that’s part of the government’s ‘Sycamore Scheme’.
NYT: Ed Conway: Britain Is the First Major Economy to Stop Using Coal. It’s a Risky Experiment.
Over 100 miles north of London, Britain’s last coal-fired power station, the Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant, will be powered down on Monday, ending Britain’s reliance on coal for power. The plant, outside Nottingham, will cease operations permanently.
It is a remarkable moment for a country that was the first to exploit coal in vast quantities, using it to make steel and glass and kick-starting the Industrial Revolution in the process. Coal turned the machinery in textile factories; it fueled the locomotives on railways; it replaced wood fireplaces, heating British homes. Most of all, it provided electricity.
ScienceAlert: Newly Discovered Comet Now Visible. Here’s How to See ‘Comet of The Year’.
In January 2023, a new comet was discovered. Comets are found regularly, but astronomers quickly realised this one, called C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), had the potential to be quite bright.
Some hyperbolic reports have suggested it might be the “comet of the century”, but any astronomer will tell you the brightness of comets is notoriously hard to predict. As I explained last year, we’d have to wait until it arrived to be sure how bright it would become.
Now, the time has come. Comet C/2023 A3 is currently visible with the naked eye in the morning sky in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, with its best yet to come in the next few weeks.
NYT: Pete Rose, Baseball Star Who Earned Glory and Shame, Dies at 83
One of the sport’s greatest players, he set a record with 4,256 career hits. But his gambling led to a lifetime ban and kept him out of the Hall of Fame.
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For millions of baseball fans, Rose will be known mainly for a number, 4,256, his total of hits, the most for any player in the history of the game. But he was a deeply compromised champion.
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For Giamatti, a former president of Yale who had served as baseball commissioner for only five months, the aftermath was far worse. A heavy smoker, he died at 51 a week after announcing his decision, the stress of the Rose case possibly contributing to the heart attack that killed him.
Last Updated: 30.Sep.2024 21:00 EDT
