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Chickens are free to roam the student organic farm at Michigan State University.
Unlike confined chickens, free-range chickens interact with with plants and other creatures for the good of the farm system.
See video.
By Emma Ogutu
ogutu@msu.edu
Great Lakes Echo
Oct. 7, 2009
Editors note: This is part of a series relevant to the International Joint commission’s biennial meeting in Windsor today and Thursday. One of the reports a U.S. and Canadian advisory commission will consider today in Windsor will look at runaway plant growth in the Great Lakes. Members of the International Joint Commission, which advises the governments on environmental issues, will likely hear that there is no cause for alarm about excessive growth of algae in Lake Superior. But global warming is catching up with the Great Lakes, Superior included, and it may soon undergo changes that could turn it into the perfect host for algal blooms.
The effects of global warming could actually be more complicated than just that. An important question is how prepared the commission and other government agencies are to handle emerging global environmental issues.