Cows

Hebrew U team opens ‘barn’ door to affordable lab-grown beef as cow cells defy aging

Cultivated meat is grown directly from animal cells in a controlled environment. This may scare some, but it’s a safe and established technology that has been in development for over 100 years.

FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY of immortalized beef cells, mitochondria labeled green.
  CAPTION - PROF. AYAL KIMHI with friends on his moshav, Kfar Warburg.

Israeli cow breaks milk yield record as climate change cuts dairy output

 Illustrative image of a dairy cow.

600 cows return to rebuilt Kibbutz Kissufim dairy farm nearly two years later

 Please, belch less. An Angus stud.

What happens when you feed seaweed to Angus and Wagyu cows?


Over half a million animals brought to Israel since January - report

Reports indicate that the livestock delivered to Israel were living in horrid conditions in the cargo ship, which caused them great suffering.

Over half a million animals brought to Israel since Jan. 2021

Israel's inhumane live animal shipments pose danger to public health

Israel's bill to end the import of live animals for meat has stalled in light of elections, but the method is illegal, dangerous and costly.

Livestock transported in live animal shipments.

Grazing cows lead to squabble on Lebanese-Israeli border

The herders from the border village of Wazzani say Israeli patrols crossed into a grey zone on Sunday between a technical fence that separates the two countries.

Cows graze in a grassy area near Mas'ada in the Israeli Golan Heights

Israeli drug to overcome antibiotic resistance receives $20m. in funding

The drug would be used to mitigate the effects of antibiotic resistance

A cow opens its mouth during feeding at the Johann Dairy farm in Fresno, California, U.S. September 10, 2020. Picture taken September 10, 2020.

Police confiscate 54 cows, detain 6 people suspected of damaging state land

The six people detained are suspected of illegally entering farmland, damaging property, trespassing and breaking forest regulations.

Cows confiscated from residents of Fassuta

BGU scientists manipulate cow microbiomes for the first time

The implication of this research, which was published in the academic journal Nature Communications, is significant, as it could potentially allow scientists to prevent cows from emitting methane.

Cow illustrative

Hindu group offers cow urine in a bid to ward off coronavirus

Experts have repeatedly asserted that cow urine does not cure illnesses like cancer and there is no evidence that it can prevent coronavirus.

A member of All India Hindu Mahasabha holds an idol of a cow after drinking cow urine during a gaumutra (cow urine) party, which according to them helps in warding off coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India March 14, 2020

PA removes Israeli calf ban, Israel removes Palestinian agriculture ban

The ban on importing calves from Israel was taken in September by PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh as part of his plan to achieve “gradual economic disengagement” from the Jewish state.

Cow illustrative

Calves descend on Naftali Bennett's home in protest of PA boycott

The calves grazed the grass near Bennett's home as farmers stated that they "don't have the money to continue to feed them."

Calf (Illustrative)

COGAT stops Palestinians from exchanging shekels for foreign currency

The move was made in response to the decision by the Palestinian Authority to stop buying calves from Israel and to begin importing calves from other countries.

A Isreal Shekel note and a U.S. Dollar note are seen in this June 22, 2017 illustration photo