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POPSPennsylvania Court Finds Animal Abuse Is Legal You tell me, if you don't think this constitutes animal abuse?!? I'm shocked and horrified at the "not-guilty" verdict. It's simply horrendous! A sickening verdict. Grrrr..... # birds overcrowded in wire cages so small, they cannot spread their wings, # hens left to suffer from untreated illnesses or injuries, # birds with their wings, legs, or feet entangled in the wires of cages, unable to access food or water, # injured or dying birds removed from their cages and left in the aisles without access to food or water, # birds impaled on the wires of the cages with many found already dead as a result of the painful immobilization, and # hens living in cages amongst decomposing bodies of other birds. “If these animals had been dogs or cats, there’s little doubt this case would have resulted in a conviction. There is a clear double standard here, and that hypocrisy is troubling.”
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POPSWater doom, droughts, "More than a third of the United States is in the grip of a menacing drought that threatens to make its way into Illinois and other Midwestern states before the summer ends.” <-- that alone kinda says it all. Things aren't getting better, quite the contrary.
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POPSThe Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race An oldie but a goodie, not on clipmarks elsewhere (so far as my searches have shown). Written by Jared Diamond two decades back. Before being critical, read the entire article please. If you think the anthropology is somehow flawed, I suggest Anthropik's Thirty Theses ( http://anthropik.com/thirty ), which cover a lot of ground.
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POPSFiller in Animal Feed Is Open Secret in China Here's a bit more: “Many companies buy melamine scrap to make animal feed, such as fish feed,” said Ji Denghui, general manager of the Fujian Sanming Dinghui Chemical Company, which sells melamine. “I don’t know if there’s a regulation on it. Probably not. No law or regulation says ‘don’t do it,’ so everyone’s doing it. The laws in China are like that, aren’t they? If there’s no accident, there won’t be any regulation.” Madness. Greed. Lack of conscience. It's an open secret in China. Big corporations elsewhere hide these same characteristics from us, but they are really no different.
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POPSMonsanto sues small farmers again (and again) Monsanto is suing a canola farmer because bees pollinated his crops with "trademarked" pollen from a GM farm. Nice way to do business. Soon all canola crops will be owned by Monsanto, if it doesn't kill the bees first. Monsanto also sued a dairy farmer to prevent him from labelling his milk rBGH-free. Monsanto is the number one producer of rBGH.
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POPSGot Corn? This is when other countries realize just how dependant THEY are on the U.S. Europe simply doesn't have the room to plant 90 million acres of corn. Other countries are eagerly placing orders for the bumper crop of U.S. corn. How funny it is that the U.S. is called the scum of the Earth...that is until we have something they want and need. This is also good for alternative plastics like PLA which are made entirely of corn and are environmentally friendly. ; )
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POPSThere's corn in that? The site that this is from - proves how toxic corn overproduction is to the environment, the economy and our lifestyles. Take away the corn subsidies and see what happens
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POPSNigeria culling more birds due to avian flu "More than 600 Nigerian animal health officials have been trained under a scheme funded by the European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organisation to undertake a nationwide surveillance to track bird flu. The experts will be deployed nationwide later in January, agriculture officials said." Chilling words: “Any farm with any sign that looks like avian influenza, we simply depopulate and pay compensation”. Poor birds. If the fear is so great that the virus will mutate and jump to humans, shouldn't the humans who have had any potential contact with "farms with any sign of avian flu" be culled, just in case?
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POPSThe Oil We Eat Tremendous thought piece on the inefficiency of our food production systems and the resulting ecological and societal costs. Author: Richard Manning
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POPSAward for having the foggiest idea?! Very important work in development of sustainable water resources for people in arid and semi-arid lands. More info at the sources, with details of Fogquest's current and past projects.
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