{"id":325099,"date":"2020-07-27T05:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T09:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiY2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZWNhdHRsZXNpdGUuY29tL25ld3MvNTU2NTYvdmV0cy1pbi1ldGhpb3BpYS1yZW1vdmUtNTAta2ctb2YtcGxhc3RpYy1mcm9tLWNvd3Mtc3RvbWFjaNIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2020-07-28T12:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T16:26:41","slug":"veterinarians-in-southern-ethiopia-remove-50kg-of-plastic-from-a-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/325099","title":{"rendered":"Veterinarians in southern Ethiopia remove 50kg of plastic from a cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(BBC) &#8211; A team of six vets in southern Ethiopia has successfully removed 50kg of plastic from a cow following three hours of surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cow is alive and in good health,&#8221; Dr Firaol Waaqoo told BBC Afaan Oromoo&#8217;s Bizuworq Olaanaa.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/live-experience\/cps\/624\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2020\/7\/24\/1de8562c-a451-4c1c-b5c7-f09094210a06.jpg?resize=757%2C1009&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"1009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/live-experience\/cps\/624\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2020\/7\/24\/d7eac91b-93f4-4d14-8297-8cae529987ff.jpg?resize=756%2C1008&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"1008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cows can ingest plastics because of lack of pasture or minerals, and the way people disposing of plastic materials is also becoming a problem for the health of livestock,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the animal&#8217;s owner Areerii Carii brought another of his cows to the vets who removed 20kg of plastic from its stomach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because we have helped him before, he trusted us,&#8221; Dr Firaol said.<\/p>\n<p>The Borana people of Ethiopia&#8217;s Oromo region are pastoralists who are heavily dependent on livestock but the area they inhabited is semi-arid with little rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(BBC) &#8211; A team of six vets in southern Ethiopia has successfully removed 50kg of plastic from a cow following three hours of surgery. &#8220;The cow is alive and in good health,&#8221; Dr Firaol Waaqoo told BBC Afaan Oromoo&#8217;s Bizuworq Olaanaa. &#8220;Cows can ingest plastics because of lack of pasture or minerals, and the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Vets-in-southern-Ethiopia-has-successfully-removed-50kg-of-plastic-from-a-cow.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1mzx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325241,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325099\/revisions\/325241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}