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THE TRIBUNE INDIA 8/11/2000 - Adopt a sheep on Net |
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ROME: Do you no longer feel sure about what is safe to eat? From today you can log on to the Internet, adopt a sheep, watch it graze and have its cheese, wool, and even its droppings posted to your door. An organic farm in central Italy has decided to rent its flock of 1,300 sheep to city dwellers fretting about mad cow disease, its ovine equivalent scrapie, and genetic modification. For $158 you get a 12-month renewable contract to choose a sheep, name it and monitor its output of 5kg of cheese, four pairs of socks and two pairs of leggings, as well as its plant-fertilising droppings. Should the produce not meet expectations, clients have the right to turn the sheep into mutton. — The Guardian
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