26 Oct 2008
Brothers share wife to secure family land

Polyandry as a solution to an inheritance problem - interesting, considering that polygamy has much more notoriety, and has been far more common historically. Even more interesting because, according to WikiPedia the Himachal Pradesh is a very ancient Indo-European enclave.

Amar and Kundan Singh Pundir are brothers. Younger brother Amar breaks rocks in a mine for a living. Kundan farms their small piece of inherited land. They live in a beautiful but remote hillside village in the clouds of Himachal Pradesh, India.

(link) [CNN.com]

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Melamine found in eggs from China

WTF are they feeding their chickens?!

The discovery of excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in Chinese eggs has prompted the Hong Kong authorities to expand health tests to include meat products imported from China, a senior official said Sunday.

(link) [CNN.com]

08:48 /Agriculture | 0 comments | permanent link