14 Mar 2007
Pig Out

Absolutely excellent opinion piece: it's nice to see more folks finally coming around on this issue, and it's nice to see pieces in the MSM reflecting reality.

In my work as an environmental lawyer, I’ve toured a dozen hog confinement operations and seen hundreds from the outside. My task was to evaluate their polluting potential, which was considerable. But what haunted me was the miserable creatures inside.

(link) [New York Times]

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20:50 /Agriculture | 2 comments | permanent link

Steaming

Backwards ClockWell, it's 7:15 am EDT on this March day, just before the vernal equinox. And it's dark outside in central Indiana. I should be getting ready to leave for work, but I can't. I have to wait until it's light to open up the henhouse. That is, if I want to have any hens left - one coyote in the predawn darkness and I'd be wiped out.

So here I sit, waiting. I'm not in the dark, though, as the "standard" indoor lights are on, kitchen, living room, office. A local station with traffic reports blares outta the TV. My computer monitor is fully powered. If the weather forecast holds, Friday morning the furnace will be running. I'm sure glad I'm saving all this energy!

So I'll be about an hour late to the office - they don't mind, really, as long as I get my time in. That's a good thing. So I'll head home about 6 or so, and then have to wait until 8 to lock down the henhouse, because chickens won't roost in daylight. Imagine that.

There's a word for the folks in the Statehouse who foisted this bullshit on us.

Morons.

06:29 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link