The foods that nobody would eat if they were called by real names

Many of the dishes we eat have fancy names that actually have nothing to do with the actual content of the meal. If they were called by real names, chances are you didn't want to eat some of them. Because many of them, starting with foie gras, represent an incredible abuse of animals.

Foie Gras

This specialty extravagant â€" usually extracted from ducks or geese fattened â€" is literally translated into "fatty liver", but in French the name sounds much better. However, not all "foie gras" from birds fed with rations. There are farms that raise animals in freedom and those who choose their food.

Caviar

Another guy extravaganza â€" normally used as input or for garnishing dishes â€" which are actually salt-cured fish roe.

Roquefort cheese

Also known as blue cheese, this specialty French cheese owes its name to the place where it was originally produced: Roquefort-sur-Soulzon. The nickname blue cheese comes from the bluish or greenish aspect cheese features. This aspect is actually mold, caused by fungi. During its manufacture, are injected fungi on massa, who goes through a maturation period of three months. These are fungi that develop in the roquefort the characteristic appearance with bluish-green veins, which impart a special flavor.

Bacon

The bacon, typically American product but popularized worldwide, is nothing more than pork bellies, which are sliced smoked, salted or cured.

Snail

Known in Portugal as snails, are a delicacy enjoyed by some and hated by others. Before they were killed and cooked, the digestive tractos these animals are removed. After being killed, cooked and seasoned, the animals will be placed inside the shell and are served.

Folded

This typical dish of Northern Portugal, usually accompanied by rice and beans, is actually stomach of animals, usually cows.

Gelatin

Exists in several flavors but is made from the same ingredients: proteins taken from skin and bones of animal carcasses. Later these proteins are mixed with other elements, namely the flavors and colorings.

Sausages

Appreciated worldwide, the sausages consist of casings, natural or synthetic, which are filled with ground beef. This meat comes mainly from scraps and fat.

Yogurt

This basic product is nothing more than fermented milk, across cultures of bacteria are added to them. These bacteria produce lactic acid, which coagulates the milk and making it more consistent.

Fresh cheese

The cheese manufacturing process produces leftovers, including blood clots and whey. The fresh cheese consists of these two leftover cheese that will be cured.

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Rama Llama: the first sustainable sleeping bag (With PICTURES)

The design Atelier Deneb Billboards has created a high-performance sleeping bag, made of wool of mud, in what will be, according to the company, the first sustainable sleeping bag in the world â€" and hypoallergenic.

Due to the construction of hollow fibres of the mud, these act as a straw that pulls the water out of the body and let the skin dry and warm, according to inhabitat.

This technology also regulates body temperature within a range of comfort of 50 degrees, so it doesn't matter if it's cold or hot outside, who uses this sleeping bag will always be comfortable.

According to the designers, the lamas are sustainably fleeced, in the Andes, there are 4,000 years old, so this product will not destabilize these animals.

Funding for the project is being financed by Kickstarter â€" their inventors have raised a third of the necessary. See here.

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Couple of frogs in love escapes crocodile attack voyeuristic

It was close to a couple of frogs that mate atop a stone escaped a voyeuristic crocodile that wanted to eat. The frogs were not aware of the danger that ran, while the predator approached them, preparing to attack.

However, at the last minute, the crocodile, still youthful, changed his mind and settled the rest along the rock where they were frogs. This is because, in fact, the predator just wanted to freshen up.

Fahmi Bhs, photographer, has documented this time in Jakarta, Indonesia, after having spent four hours photographing animals, explains the British press.

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Pollution turns London Chinese city

Last Wednesday, 2 April, London, lived a similar scenario to what we often see in Chinese cities: people with their faces covered by masks to protect themselves from the polluted air, while children and the elderly with health problems were advised to stay indoors.

A thick cloud of sand, named Sahara Rain-rain of the Sahara â€" settled in London City, at a time when the air pollution, by itself, was at an all-time high.

See some of the photos of London.

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Geese return to the island of Oahu, Hawaii, after three centuries of absence

Since 1700 they weren't sighted Hawaiian geese (or Néné) on Oahu, one of the islands of the archipelago of the American State, but this reality is changing, according to the u.s. Fish Wildlife Service &.

This species of goose, known for its distinctive sound-nay-nay-, is the official bird of Hawaii, but three hundred years ago it was not sighted on the island of Oahu. Now, the population has grown from zero to five. It's a start.

The birds have been sighted in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge, about 65 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii's capital, and there is no indication that human have been putting them there.

According to the American environmental service, a pair of Hawaiian geese must have made a nest and hatched successfully, three children in a national wildlife refuge, near Kahuku, on the North Shore.

This species of goose was often seen in the Hawaiian Islands until the end of 1700, however, the number of these geese was severely reduced due to loss of habitat and predatory animals such as cats, rats and pigs.

In 1951, it was estimated that there were only 30 geese of this species throughout Hawaii, according to The Atlantic Cities. The Country has made various efforts for the conservation of species and there are currently more than 2,000 geese in the country. Including, now, on Oahu.

See some photos of this bird.

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Silicone bracelets can detect pollution

Researchers at the University of Oregon, in the United States, show that the silicone bracelets â€" which, from time to time, are used to demonstrate support for some cause, some football team or simply because they are sets for some reason unexplainable â€" can serve to detect pollution.

These bracelets can act as devices that control a person's exposure to harmful pollutants, over a day, week or even months, because the Silicon acts as a sponge, absorbing a variety of compounds from the air.

Due to this property, the American investigators decided to control the range of compounds that people inhale in different environments and see if you can identify potential health effects. The findings were revealed in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology.

According to investigators, the first step was to remove the chemicals that are introduced on Silicon during their manufacture. Then, thirty volunteers used some orange and white bracelets during 30 days. At the end of the analysis period, 49 compounds were found in bracelets, including flame retardants, internal-use pesticides â€" anti-pulga medicines for pets, for example â€" nicotine and several chemicals used in cosmetics and fragrances.

In addition, eight volunteers who worked as Masons used the bracelets for eight hours every day, because the researchers were looking for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Aphs), present in tar roofs, a tile type commonly used in the United States, referred to in the sustainable planet.

All the bracelets of Masons presented the compounds and other substances 12 a national list of pollutants considered harmful. According to scientists, the use of silicone bracelets could make it easier and I need to evaluate how are air quality and how internal pollutants affect our health. The team believes that this is a process control cheap than the usual method of measuring individual exposure to pollution, which involves monitoring well always simple to use and expensive.

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Ecological vehicles that travel the historic area of Lisbon (with video)

Alfama, Sé, Costa do Castelo or Praça do Comércio are some of the Lisbon areas that are part of the routes of Eco TuK Tours, a company of environmental vehicles founded in Lisbon a year ago by three brothers.

"[The company] was born from the idea of making sustainable tourism in the city of Lisbon. And this is what the Board intends for this story, the zero-emissions zone ", explained John Túbal, one of the brothers, to the green economy.

The vehicles used are silent and trams. So, the driver must warn pedestrians, many times, their passage â€" you can see him doing that, even during the story of the green economy.

On the other hand, these 100% electric vehicles show passengers the most typical neighborhoods of the city, being a good alternative for those who can't make it, the walking. In the last year â€" the first of the parent company, the Eco Tuk Tours transported more than four thousand passengers, having circulated nearly 28 000 kilometres. In all, were made a thousand trips.

Eco Tuk Tours prepares now to increase the fleet to six vehicles. "Each vehicle has power to 40 or 50 miles a day, depending on the weight they carry or the climbs he has to do," explained John Túbal.

"The cars come out of our driveway in the morning and at the end of the day, like any electrical appliance, connect to the mains and is already," joked the Manager. After ten hours loading, vehicles are ready to return to the hills of Lisbon.

See the episode 232 of the green economy.

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