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actualmermaid:
Me: hates the Discourse
Also Me: makes this meme
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actualmermaid:
Me: hates the Discourse
Also Me: makes this meme
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Dec. 26th, 2017
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mighty-meerkat:
Everyone’s going on about having a ‘traditional, old-fashioned Christmas’, but when I burst into the house covered in green paint and demand a champion strike my head from my shoulders with my own axe so that I may return the blow next year, I’m ‘scaring Grandma’.
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mighty-meerkat:
Everyone’s going on about having a ‘traditional, old-fashioned Christmas’, but when I burst into the house covered in green paint and demand a champion strike my head from my shoulders with my own axe so that I may return the blow next year, I’m ‘scaring Grandma’.
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phew. winding down. farmsister and her husband and farmbaby have left, and middle-little is packing herself up to leave. so it’s a little calmer today…
dude and i are going to pack up tonight, and leave tomorrow morning. then a couple days in d.c., then home, and it’s all over and we go back to our lives.
it’s been lovely. but i haven’t accomplished anything in several days and i feel like a slacker.
hope everyone’s had a lovely time too, i haven’t been reading much, sorry if i’ve missed anything important.
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phew. winding down. farmsister and her husband and farmbaby have left, and middle-little is packing herself up to leave. so it’s a little calmer today…
dude and i are going to pack up tonight, and leave tomorrow morning. then a couple days in d.c., then home, and it’s all over and we go back to our lives.
it’s been lovely. but i haven’t accomplished anything in several days and i feel like a slacker.
hope everyone’s had a lovely time too, i haven’t been reading much, sorry if i’ve missed anything important.
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A post shared by Bridget Kelly (@bomberqueen17) on Dec 26, 2017 at 7:50am PST
Magnetic building blocks for christmas, first construction project complete. (at Baltimore County, Maryland)
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A post shared by Bridget Kelly (@bomberqueen17) on Dec 26, 2017 at 7:50am PST
Magnetic building blocks for christmas, first construction project complete. (at Baltimore County, Maryland)
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USDA Gives in to Big 'Organic' Poultry, Moves to Withdraw New Animal Welfare Rules:
meadowslark:
rjzimmerman:
Once again……..and again……….and again……..trump and his people change the rules so that big [name the industry…..this time it’s agriculture] win and get richer and have less accountability at the expense of humans and other breathing creatures.
If you want true organic eggs from farmers that, based on integrity and honesty, provide chickens with a more hospitable living environment, then you have to do your homework before you get to the grocery store and read all the confusing bullshit labels and promises on the carton. I do. I pay about $1.50 per dozen more than the price of the other eggs, but based on my homework, I know that I’m buying from an honest farmer. At least, for now.
Remember, all these rules are coming from a man who eats two Big Macs or Quarter Pounders plus fries, at one meal, or three or four pieces of KFC at another meal, or a taco salad from Taco Bell, and when he gets really fancy, eats a well-done steak smothered in catsup with a double scoop of vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce for desert.
Excerpt:
Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) formally proposed withdrawing a set of rules finalized at the end of the Obama administration that establish stronger, more enforceable animal welfare requirements for certified organic producers.
The rules, titled the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices rule, are the product of more than a decade of collaboration and coordination among the organic community, including consumers, farmers, veterinarians, environmentalists and animal welfare groups. Unfortunately, a few large-scale egg producers fear the new rules will expose their less-than-organic practices and put pressure on USDA and Congress to stop the rule.
“The new rules are vital for protecting animal welfare, organic consumers, and the thousands of farmers that opt-in to organic certification,” said Cameron Harsh, senior manager for Organic & Animal Policy at the Center for Food Safety.
The rules, which have been delayed from implementation three separate times since being finalized in January 2017, provide needed clarity on organic animal care, including prohibiting several painful alterations. In particular, the rules require all animals to have real access to the outdoors, which must include contact with soil and vegetation, and outline minimum spacing requirements for poultry. This is, in fact, what consumers already expect from the organic poultry and eggs they buy in stores. But the largest poultry producers have so far been able to consider small, cement, fenced-in areas as outdoor access and have not been required to abide by specific spacing limitations.
Without comment.
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USDA Gives in to Big 'Organic' Poultry, Moves to Withdraw New Animal Welfare Rules:
meadowslark:
rjzimmerman:
Once again……..and again……….and again……..trump and his people change the rules so that big [name the industry…..this time it’s agriculture] win and get richer and have less accountability at the expense of humans and other breathing creatures.
If you want true organic eggs from farmers that, based on integrity and honesty, provide chickens with a more hospitable living environment, then you have to do your homework before you get to the grocery store and read all the confusing bullshit labels and promises on the carton. I do. I pay about $1.50 per dozen more than the price of the other eggs, but based on my homework, I know that I’m buying from an honest farmer. At least, for now.
Remember, all these rules are coming from a man who eats two Big Macs or Quarter Pounders plus fries, at one meal, or three or four pieces of KFC at another meal, or a taco salad from Taco Bell, and when he gets really fancy, eats a well-done steak smothered in catsup with a double scoop of vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce for desert.
Excerpt:
Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) formally proposed withdrawing a set of rules finalized at the end of the Obama administration that establish stronger, more enforceable animal welfare requirements for certified organic producers.
The rules, titled the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices rule, are the product of more than a decade of collaboration and coordination among the organic community, including consumers, farmers, veterinarians, environmentalists and animal welfare groups. Unfortunately, a few large-scale egg producers fear the new rules will expose their less-than-organic practices and put pressure on USDA and Congress to stop the rule.
“The new rules are vital for protecting animal welfare, organic consumers, and the thousands of farmers that opt-in to organic certification,” said Cameron Harsh, senior manager for Organic & Animal Policy at the Center for Food Safety.
The rules, which have been delayed from implementation three separate times since being finalized in January 2017, provide needed clarity on organic animal care, including prohibiting several painful alterations. In particular, the rules require all animals to have real access to the outdoors, which must include contact with soil and vegetation, and outline minimum spacing requirements for poultry. This is, in fact, what consumers already expect from the organic poultry and eggs they buy in stores. But the largest poultry producers have so far been able to consider small, cement, fenced-in areas as outdoor access and have not been required to abide by specific spacing limitations.
Without comment.
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