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Jul 3, 2009 11:02 pm US/Central
Good Question: 'Reply All' To Your Good Questions
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ―
From recalled meat to what "ear" of corn means, WCCO-TV viewers are getting answers to some of their Good Questions.
•What happens to recalled meat? - Georgia Johnson, Minneapolis
Most recalls are voluntary, and the meat is disposed of by the company that produced the product. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, meat packages are typically dyed with ink, so they can't be resold. Then they are either taken to landfills or incinerated.
• What are the purple boxes hanging in Minneapolis and St. Paul trees? - Leigha Horton from Minneapolis
The boxes are triangular-shaped, and they're a bug traps. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Minnesota DNR are trying to catch the emerald ash borer.
They have the purple baited traps in 47 states right now. The ash borer is small and hard to detect, so these baited boxes help.
The goal is to track the movement of the ash borer as it comes to different area.
• Why do we call it an "ear" of corn? - Michele Seeback from Hanley Falls, MN
"Ear" is a botanical term, meaning "a cereal inflorescence which is a spike." Make sense?
OK, what that really means is that the ear a grain (cereal), it's the flowering part of the corn plant (inflorescence) and it grows without branches (spike). Also, when corn pops out of the ground, it looks a little like an ear.
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