My new best friend. My Minorca pullet. I’m going to call her Grace.
My Blue Zen
art, small farming, and being human.
Bullshit, New Jersey 3rd in Survey of Cursing (larger)
So, Montana is not polite, yet not profane. That’s fucking bullshit, thank you very much.
At chicken plants, chemicals blamed for health ailments are poised to proliferate - The Washington Post
The heightened use of chemicals would follow a pattern that has already emerged in poultry plants. In a private report to the House Appropriations Committee, the USDA said that in plants that have already accelerated line speeds, workers have been exposed to larger amounts of cleaning agents. “The use of powerful antimicrobial chemicals has increased in order to decrease microbial loads on carcasses,” according to the 2010 report, recently obtained by The Washington Post.
In interviews, more than two dozen USDA inspectors and poultry industry employees described a range of ailments they attributed to chemical exposure, including asthma and other severe respiratory problems, burns, rashes, irritated eyes, and sinus ulcers and other sinus problems. …
Although procedures vary among plants, in a typical scenario, high-powered nozzles shoot water and chemicals into the interior of a bird and along its surface. Next, the bird moves through one or two spray cabinets, where it is showered with other chemicals. Finally, it is chilled and soaked, usually in chlorine and water.
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Chen Hui. Portrait No. 1, 2011. Oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm.
Only one week old and already teasing guests.
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All day migraine. Been laying in bed most if the day feeling guilty about it.
Now to watch the Hobbit and drink tea.
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here are some nice things to do to waste time on the internet if you want to be distracted for some reason
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The Strange Beauty of Diatoms and Phytoplankton - Full Gallery
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TW: medical testing, history
Some of the most violent tests were connected with trying to find the best ways of treating Japanese shrapnel injuries sustained during fighting. Prisoners were tied to wooden stakes positioned around a bomb at various distances before the explosive was detonated. Those who survived would have surgery performed on them; the rest went for autopsies. Other prisoners literally became human targets for testing other weaponry such as flamethrowers, not to mention germ-releasing bombs and chemical weapons.
Today I came across goats playing on a trampoline while I was driving around and it was the happiest thing I’ve ever seen.
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Little bird is wondering why I turned off his light. It is really too bad that the friendliest chicks are the ones we intend to eat. The egg birds are a bit skittish.
Yes! Michael and I are… Tumblrbuddies. For 8 years now. :)
