The Icelandic Goat: there are perhaps 820 of these rare animals alive right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_goat There are some petitions going around claiming the Icelandic government wants to thin the herds in Iceland and ban the use of raw goats milk. Even if youre making soaps with it. The plan is to cull 360 of these rare animals, which have been isolated on Iceland for some 1100 years, and have very rare traits. (although they are a bit inbred... the world population of these dropped to some 90 at one point.). Goat farmer and former nurse Jóhanna Bergmann Þorvaldsdóttir has Icelands only goat breeding farm and she stands to lose 200 of her herd of, according to the petition below, because she is facing foreclosure- she cant sell raw goats milk. One of the petition sites is: thepetitionsite/takeaction/432/890/936/?z00m=21425558&redirectID=1447251245 An untapped potential for these animals is the fine underhairs they have, said to be comparable to cashmere wool. Ironically, Iceland subsidizes the ownership of some of these animals.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:44:42 +0000