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Claim: List of Israeli Products to Boycott!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2017-10-22): - Almog Baku - Amos Haviv - Amos Szust - Artyom Beilis - Asaf Cohen - Barak Schoster Goihman - Benjamin Gruenbaum - Eldad Fux - Eli Segal - Eran Geva - Erez Birenholz - Evyatar Alush - Gaal Yahas - Gabor Szabo - Gal Schlezinger - Gal Weizman - Gilad Novik - Gilad Shoham - Guy Sheffer - Haim Cohen - Haim Kastner - Ido Cohen - Igal Klebanov - Ilan Joselevich - Islam Attrash - Itamar Syn-Hershko - Jeremy Hess - Josh Grossman - Liad Yosef - Lior Kaplan - Lior Kesos - Liran Tal - Maty Zisserman - Moshe Nahmias - Nadav Fischer - Nadav Har'El - Nadav Samet - Naor Peled - Natan Yellin - Netanel Basal - Nitzan Tomer - Omer Zak - Or Weis - Orel Balilti - Ori Hoch - Ram Rachum - Ran Bar-Zik - Ran Isenberg - Raz Luvaton - Ron Klein - Sawyer X - Shachar Shemesh - Shahar Kazaz - Shai Berger - Shai Reznik - Shay Cojocaru - Shay Gover - Shay Palachy-Affek - Shlomi Fish - Stav Shamir - Tomer Brisker - Tomer Figenblat - Tomer Klein - Uri Peled - Uri Shaked - Yaacov Zamir - [...] - angular-companies-israel - awesome-israeli-jewish-home-assistant - awesome-vuejs-israel - israeli-opensource-companies - rust-tlv/companies - vue-companies-israel
Claim: List of Israeli Products to Boycott!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2021-08-03): TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Yesterday, the Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer of the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA), Ash Williams, notified Governor DeSantis that Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever has been added to Florida’s List of Scrutinized Companies that Boycott Israel. On July 22nd, Governor DeSantis sent a letter to Mr. Williams requesting that the SBA initiate the process of placing Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company Unilever on the list following the company’s announcement that it would remove its products and prohibit the sale of its ice cream in Judea and Samaria. If a company does not cease its boycott of Israel within 90 days of being placed on the list, it becomes subject to an investment prohibition and the State of Florida will not contract with the company or its subsidiaries. [...] Governor DeSantis will continue to call for all companies that seek to boycott or divest from the State of Israel to be placed on the State of Florida’s List of Scrutinized Companies that Boycott Israel. By implementing these measures against Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever, the State of Florida is seeking to deter any other woke corporation that might consider doing the same.
Claim: List of Israeli Products to Boycott!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2017-09-01): (1) "Boycott Israel" means refusing to deal with, terminating business activities with, or otherwise taking any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations specifically with Israel, or with a person or entity doing business in Israel or in an Israeli-controlled territory, but does not include an action made for ordinary business purposes. [...] Sec. 808.051. LISTED COMPANIES. (a) The comptroller shall prepare and maintain, and provide to each state governmental entity, a list of all companies that boycott Israel. In maintaining the list, the comptroller may review and rely, as appropriate in the comptroller's judgment, on publicly available information regarding companies, including information provided by the state, nonprofit organizations, research firms, international organizations, and governmental entities. [...] (c) Not later than the 30th day after the date the list of companies that boycott Israel is first provided or updated, the comptroller shall file the list with the presiding officer of each house of the legislature and the attorney general and post the list on a publicly available website.
Claim: List of Israeli Products to Boycott!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2023-10-10): October 10, 2023 (AUSTIN) —Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar released the following statement reminding businesses about the agency’s boycott Israel list amid the Israel-Hamas conflict: [...] "As this conflict unfolds, I remind businesses that my office maintains a list of companies that boycott Israel. Texas Government Code Chapter 808 defines ‘boycott Israel' as ’refusing to deal with, terminating business activities with or otherwise taking any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on or limit commercial relations specifically with Israel or with a person or entity doing business in Israel or in an Israeli-controlled territory … .'
Claim: List of Israeli Products to Boycott!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2024-09-30): Although it is very good, & very helpful for the most part, it still has mistakes where some products are actually not on the boycott list & on scanning barcodes, the product is shown in RED, or comes up as a completely different, unrelated product, & I then have to double check via another app or Google again. Despite the few shortcomings, I still think it is a very valuable tool to have at ones disposal. May Allah/God continue to help you in your good work. [...] Nice UI, great search and scan functions, though I tend to find using search easier. Everything on the list has proof attached in "Open proof", with a link. The list is constantly added to, with user's help, through the "add product" section, where if No Thanks has missed something, a user can submit the name, an optional logo and proof of their support. The list doesn't stop at products from stores, but adds big companies like Google and even Justin Bieber. Its likely the best boycott app rn.
Claim: List of Israeli Products to Boycott!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2024-01-01): The Arab League boycott of Israel is the principal unsanctioned foreign boycott that U.S. persons must be concerned with today. The antiboycott provisions of the EAR, however, apply to all unsanctioned foreign boycotts.
Claim: List of Israeli Products to Boycott!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2024-02-06): The fast food company is only one of several United States brands hit by boycotts and protests over their perceived support for Israel’s war on Gaza. On social media sites, lists are going around of brands accused of supporting Israel although the ties are often not clearly explained. The push is part of a larger Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting Israel-friendly brands since 2005. [...] The fizzy drinks manufacturer has long been caught in the crossfire of conflict in the Middle East. From 1967 to 1991, Coke was officially boycotted by the Arab League for building a bottling plant in Israel. Now again, the brand’s red logo is on lists of brands being circulated for boycotts on social media channels. The company does not appear to have set off any recent triggers, but its past affiliations with Israel as well as its reputation as an American company seem to be enough.
Claim: List of Israeli Products to Boycott!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2023-11-22): Companies that Boycott Israel
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2024-01-17): The claim in the Sinhala post saying that the porcupines are not damaging any crops is misleading. The Sinhala post is a translation from posts about hedgehogs. Hedgehogs don't much care for eating plants, they much prefer beetles, caterpillars, slugs and snails hence are considered to be generally friendly for your garden.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2024-03-15): Our ndings suggest that the use of agricultural crops in accordance with their availability during the warm season and the preference shown for orchards, vineyards, and olive groves during the cold one, highlight that porcupine–famer negative interactions may occur in the area. The implementation of proper prevention measures is therefore strongly suggested, especially during the cold period, to reduce the potential impacts on agriculture. [...] Get out from my eld! The role of agricultural crops in shaping the habitat selection by and suitability for the crested porcupine in Central [...] Although crested porcupine Hystrix cristata (hereafter, porcupine) damages to croplands are negligible compared to other species (Laurenzi et al. 2016), this large rodent is considered as one of the main agricultural pests by farmers in Tuscany (Laurenzi et al. 2016; Cerri et al. 2017; Lovari et al. 2017). In European law, the porcupine has been listed in Appendix II of the Bern Convention and Appendix IV of the ‘Habitat’ Directive since 1978 and 1982, respectively.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2003-11-09): By ordinary human standards, porcupines have many bad habits. Besides extricating their quills from the noses of pet dogs and livestock, humans must throw out axe handles and leather harnesses chewed beyond use. Porcupines damage, and sometimes kill, trees by gnawing on them; they even gnaw at uninhabited wooden buildings. The human response to porcupines is often an attempt to eradicate them by shooting, trapping, or poisoning. [...] No one seems surprised to learn that porcupines are mostly solitary animals. Near-sighted, slow-moving, they make their dens in rock ledges or hollow trees close to a good food supply. In our region, hemlock is a favorite food source and the mainstay of the porcupine’s winter diet. Although they don’t hibernate, porcupines curtail their activity and their range during the winter, never venturing far from their dens. Porcupine dens are easiest to spot in winter, when there will be large accumulations of scat around the entrances and hemlocks with partially stripped branches nearby. [...] Believed to chew wood and leather for the salt left in it from perspiration, porcupines also need to hone their continuously growing teeth, which may explain why they gnaw at buildings. While tools can easily be stored out of a rodent’s reach, what about the damage porcupines do because of their appetite for the bark and buds of sugar maple, birch, white pine, hemlock, and fruit trees?
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2019-08-29): Get out from my field! The role of agricultural crops in shaping the habitat selection by and suitability for the crested porcupine in Central Italy [...] Hafeez, S., Anjum, K., Hafeez Khan, T., Manzoor, S., 2015. Food habits of Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica) in rainfed Pothowar Plateau, Punjab, Pakistan. J. Agric. Res. 53, 565–579. [...] Pillay, K.R., Wilson, A.L., Ramesh, T., Downs, C.T., 2015. Digestive parameters and energy assimilation of Cape porcupine on economically important crops. Afr. Zool. 50, 321–326.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2024-02-20): That sounds uncomfortable, but a porcupine’s health probably doesn’t suffer due to the presence of this undigested mass in its stomach or intestines—that is, not until humans come along. [...] This paper calls for more study about this issue and additional conservation actions to protect porcupines. Currently the various species enjoy some national-level protection but precious little on the international level, because they’re still perceived as relatively common. In fact, most old-world porcupine species currently appear on the IUCN Red List as either "least concern" or "data deficient." Only the Philippine porcupine (Hystrix pumila) is listed as "vulnerable to extinction." None are currently protected by the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species. [...] And while some porcupines are farmed, this study indicates pressure on wild porcupines, which also face threats from habitat destruction and the bushmeat trade, as well as persecution as agricultural pests. It suggests a need to protect certain populations which fetch higher prices due to their purported purity. The study quotes one popular website: "The most valuable for the porcupine bezoars are procured from … the rainforest of Indonesia or Borneo. The porcupines here eat unpolluted herbs that have high medicinal value causing the bezoars … to be of the rarest and highest value. The price is very high and has collection, medicinal and stockpiling value."
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2020-07-23): Within Old world porcupines of the sub-genus Hystrix (H. indica, H. africaeaustralis and H. cristata), only H. africaeaustralis (Cape porcupine) and H. cristata (crested porcupine) show a sympatric distribution overlap in southeast Africa1, while H. indica (Indian porcupine) is widely distributed in semi-arid areas of south-western Asia2. The three species have thrived amidst anthropic activities, such as agriculture and manmade riverbanks, which provide rodents with enough food resources and burrowing habitats, respectively3. These rodents are infamous as pests for destroying economically important crops and damaging riverbanks by burrowing4,5,6. [...] Pillay, K. R., Wilson, A. L., Ramesh, T. & Downs, C. T. Digestive parameters and energy assimilation of Cape porcupine on economically important crops. Afr. Zool.50(4), 321–326. https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2015.1116373 (2015).
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2016-12-12): Alkon PU, Saltz D (1985a) Patterns of crested porcupine (Hystrix indica) damage to cultivated potatoes. Agric Ecos Environm 14:171–183 [...] Downs CT, Pillay KR, Wilson AL, Ramesh T (2015) Digestive parameters and energy assimilation of Cape porcupine on economically important crops. Afr Zool 50:307–312 [...] Khan AA, Ahmad S, Hussain I, Munir S (2000) Deterioration impact of Indian crested porcupine, Hystrix indica, on forestry and agricultural systems in Pakistan. Intern Biodet Biodegr 45:143–149
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2024-03-06): Do Porcupines Harm Agricultural Crops? [...] A post claiming that porcupines are not animals harming the crops was shared among Facebook users. [...] Title:Do Porcupines Harm Agricultural Crops?
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2024-03-05): Addressing the threat to crops posed by porcupines involves a comprehensive understanding of their behaviors and deterrent strategies. As nocturnal feeders, porcupines have a predilection for succulent stems, leaves, and the bark of trees which can result in the girdling that damages or kills young trees and plants. Effective and humane prevention techniques are critical for farmers and land managers to protect their investments without harming the local wildlife. The integration of physical barriers, such as properly installed electric fences, can be a successful method to safeguard agricultural areas. These strategies, coupled with an awareness of porcupine habitats and feeding patterns, are essential components in mitigating the negative impacts of porcupines on crops, thus ensuring coexistence and minimal disruption to both agricultural activities and porcupine populations. [...] In addressing the challenge of protecting crops from porcupines, it's crucial to consider a variety of methods and practices. These often involve deterrents, repellents, and humane removal techniques. This FAQ section will offer guidance on the best practices to safeguard agricultural lands and residential properties from porcupine damage.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2024-03-15): Although crested porcupine Hystrix cristata (hereafter, porcupine) damages to croplands are negligible compared to other species (Laurenzi et al. 2016), this large rodent is considered as one of the main agricultural pests by farmers in Tuscany (Laurenzi et al. 2016; Cerri et al. 2017; Lovari et al. 2017). In European law, the porcupine has been listed in Appendix II of the Bern Convention and Appendix IV of the ‘Habitat’ Directive since 1978 and 1982, respectively. In Italy, the species has been protected since 1977 (National Law 968/1977) and is listed among the ‘particularly protected species’ in National Law 157/1992. Despite this level of legal protection, this rodent is still heavily poached for its tasty meat, and because of (real or perceived) damages to croplands (Laurenzi et al. 2016; Lovari et al. 2017). The highest damages have been reported to occur primarily in private unprotected vegetable gardens (Laurenzi et al. 2016), leading to resentment among the owners. Moreover, local intolerance towards porcupines has increased due to damages to riverbanks caused by burrow digging (Lovari et al. 2017) and wounds provoked on hunting hounds (Mori et al. 2014a).
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2018-04-07): The goal of this article is to inform community regarding porcupines damage, and deliver guidelines for their harmless, real and liable elimination. The utmost apparent attribute of porcupines is their extensive, piercing and shakable quills, which shelter backs of the physiques that make them hit, as a threatening to probable raiders. In general, porcupines occur the maximum in mountainous and gravelly states, however these may adjust in many territories like extremely wet plantations and somewhat territory comprising of prairies, foothills, deserts and tropical forests. Porcupines can become a pest by eating of carrots and other root vegetables, clovers, roots, fruits as well as foraging on the farm crops. A definite indication of porcupine burrow is a mound of feces at entering site of cave or hollow tree. In this global region, Hystrix indica Kerr is most plentiful and scattered species, and has been familiarized as a severe pest of fruit orchards, vegetables, flowering plants, forage grasses in pastures or rangelands and traditional as well as non-traditional crops. When porcupines inflict optimum damage, then their control actions must be adopted.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2012-08-10): Family Rural Lifestyle Understanding Porcupines How does one porcupine interact with another? Very carefully! Porcupines are not aggressive animals but if you see one up close, don't make it mad. By Successful Farming Staff Successful Farming Staff The content on Agriculture.com is by created by trained journalists who have become subject-matter experts in their fields. You may see some content using the byline "Successful Farming Staff." The content is primarily from information or a press release provided by other entities – such as the USDA, a university, or agricultural company. The press release has been vetted and reviewed by a staff editor. The content is edited and changed to reflect the voice and style of Successful Farming. Successful Farming's Editorial Guidelines Published on August 10, 2012 Close The porcupine is the second-largest rodent in North America after the beaver. But it's not their size that scares me; it's the quills! Yvonne Barkley is an associate extension forester with the University of Idaho. She says the native range of the porcupine includes all of the Western, Northern, and also the Northeastern U.S. They live in forests and hang out in trees.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2015-09-23): Human-wildlife conflict, especially related to crop losses, dramatically reduces tolerance towards wildlife and hinders conservation efforts. Despite being a protected species, the crested porcupine Hystrix cristata, probably an introduced species to Italy, is recorded as one of the worst agricultural pest and is extensively poached. Tree debarking by this rodent is also reported, although no quantitative information was available before this work. We analysed data on crop damages by crested porcupines from complaints obtained by two areas of Central Italy. As well, data on tree debarking were collected and examined. Our results showed that the crop damage by this species is low, even if it may sporadically account for up to 44 % the overall agricultural loss (mostly to sunflower, onion, melon and watermelon). Higher damages may occur on private small vegetable gardens, particularly on underground storage organs. Even if analysed in a single study area and for only 1 year, tree debarking occurred on less than 6 % of trees, mainly young plants (Fraxinus ornus, Ostrya carpinifolia and Pyrus pyraster), with no tree mortality. [...] Khan AA, Ahmad S, Hussain I, Munir S (2000) Deterioration impact of Indian crested porcupine, Hystrix indica, on forestry and agricultural systems in Pakistan. Internat Biodet Biodegr 45:143–149 [...] Paci AM, Raggiotti L, Croce M, Convito L (2007) Crested porcupines and agriculture in Umbria (Central Italy): some elements for a management approach. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Fauna Problematica: Conservazione e Gestione, Rocca dei Papi, Montefiascone (Viterbo), Italy, p. 41
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2015-09-23): 2014a). Surprisingly, our work showed that these rodents did not exert a serious damage to the overall agricultural produc- tion in Central Italy with respect to other species (e.g. wild boar). Although in 2003, the damage caused by H. cristata reached 44 % of the overall damage to agricultural products in area 1, the damage caused by this species was often rather low (near 0 % in some years). Some crops have been damaged more than others: the most attacked species by crested porcu- pines were Cucurbitaceae (i.e. melon and watermelon), main- ly in area 1, and underground storage organs (i.e. onions), in area 4. Study area and extension of cultivated surfaces within each area positively influenced the extent of damage by por- cupines, who may find abundant and clumped trophic re- sources in agricultural areas (cf. Lovari et al. 2013). Further- more, extent of damage by wild boars represented a significant variable which positively influences the extent of damage by crested porcupine. We suggest that wild boars may favour porcupine access to cultivations by disrupting protective fences. Damage on melons in area 1 reached near the 90 % [...] Italy, Lucifero (1909) reported that crested porcupines only rarely provoke crop damages in southern regions. According to all these considerations, it seems that usually porcupines do not cause a heavy damage to crops, at least at large geograph- ical scales.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2017-02-08): Everyone knows what a porcupine is, but apart from the fact that they have quills and can hurt you badly if you mess with them, not many people know much about their biology and manner. They are actually very docile animals that will not attack passersby, but rather lumber away slowly to a comfortable distance then resume whatever it was they were doing. Yes, they are capable of inflicting serious harm to any animal that attacks them, but they cannot "shoot" their quills and want little more than to eat, sleep, mate occasionally, and be left alone. While many predators are capable of eating them, porcupines are a fairly risky food item and most predators leave them alone except in times of desperation. Fisher cats, however, excel at preying upon porcupines and may even suppress porcupine populations in some places. The fisher cat is scarce or absent from much of the porcupine’s range, however, and the general lack of predators has led to porcupines having a nearly absent flight response, resulting many being hit by cars. Indeed, many people who have never seen a live porcupine are accustomed to seeing their carcasses along roads.