Responding to Food Safety News' Editorial on the Vermont GMO Laws
Also published at Food Safety NewsIn a May 3rd editorial , Food Safety News Editor Dan Flynn wrote a rather scathing editorial about Vermont's new GMO labeling law. Among the criticisms he asked a...
View ArticleAnimal Welfare Groups Settle with Feld Entertainment
Last updateI've had a day to get over the shock at the settlement amount. All of the statements by the animal welfare folk I posted links to make logical sense. And believe it or not, once I got over...
View ArticleBilly Sol Estes and Congress are why the USDA is ordering machine guns
The tea-soaked conspiracy crowd has a new rai·son d'être this week: a procurement request from the USDA for machine guns and ammo. As RT.com notes, "The request has captured the attention of many...
View ArticleWho Owns the Law?
I follow several legal cases, most related to animal welfare, climate, the environment, or agriculture and food. Like others, I have a PACER account, which gives me access to most court documents at...
View ArticleDo I look pretty? Web site design tedium
I think I need a new look for my web site. Singular, now, since I merged everything back into one space. I decided people find stuff via social media anyway, so why worry about separating topics into...
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Writing from the Bleeding Edge
Photo by Jonathan Arehart cc BY-NC-SA 2.0One of the challenges writing a book on technology is not only do you need to put words together in some form of coherent, possibly even interesting, manner,...
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Responding to Charity Navigator's DA on the Humane Society of the United States
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.I was sent a link to a story and asked if it was true. The story noted that Charity Navigator, the charity watch dog group, had attached a...
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Mother Jones Fascinating Murder Mystery with an NRA Twist—and Documents
Photo of gun associated with early murder trial, included in Mother Jones story.Mother Jones has a fascinating, longer look at an early murder mystery associated with none other than the NRA's general...
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Who Keeps E-Mails?
If you're following the BPI vs. ABC "pinkslime" lawsuit, than you might be aware that the company is attempting to subpoena emails from several journalists and food safety experts.The subpoenas to...
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Koster's Right to...collect large campaign contributions from big...
Photo of Chris Koster, left, and Jay Nixon by Missouri News Horizon, used without edit, shared under CC by 2.0 I was not surprised to read that Missouri's Attorney General, Chris Koster, has come out...
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The Right to Drink Water
Photo Credit: Brenda Culler, ODNR Coastal Management CC by-NC-2.0Don't think what happens in the farmland impacts you in the city? Not interested in taking the time away from Starbucks to go vote on...
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The HTML5 longdesc attribute is finally home again
I found out that the W3C had transitioned the HTML5 attribute @longdesc to Candidate Recommendation (CR) status from a tweet by John Foliot:And now, @longdesc is an official W3C Candidate...
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Missouri Dives into the Rabbit Hole with Amendments 1 and 5
Photo by Stefano Corso, used without edits, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Missouri's "Right to Farm" Amendment 1, and the gun support measure, Amendment 5, both won last night. The vote on Amendment 1 was so close...
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Judge tosses suit leaving Koster with egg over face
Photo courtesy dfinnecy licensed cc by sa 2.0Judge Kimberly J. Mueller tossed the multi-state lawsuit instigated by Missouri's own AG, Chris Koster, against California's new egg laws. As the decision...
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Posse
1890 photo of posse taken by Barbara Harris, uploaded by Chuck Coker. Uploaded photo cc by-nd 2.0I was disappointed to see Kathy Sierra leave Twitter, but respect her decision to do so. I read her...
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Not Voting is Not an Option
It's going to rain on Tuesday. It's going to rain all day long. This means water backing up because of all the leaves not collected and blocking storm sewer intakes, wet kids waiting for the bus, a run...
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Ferguson: A Benefit of the Doubt
My father was a cop. A Washington state patrolman. I like to think he was a good cop, and have never received any indication otherwise. When Mike Brown was shot in Ferguson, less than 25 minutes from...
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Before you Sign that Petition
The USDA has been busy approving genetically modified crops for cultivation, including a potato and alfalfa. I'll have much more to say on GMO later, but I wanted to focus on one aspect of the approval...
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Healthcare Sign Up: New and Improved
I signed up for healthcare coverage for 2015 at Healthcare.gov. Unlike last year, absolutely no problems with the system. The only hiccup occurred with United Healthcare when I tried to review its...
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Ferguson: STFU
Our Governor Jay Nixon has decided to roll out the troops by declaring a state of emergency before the Ferguson Grand Jury decision. As LOLGOP tweeted:Nothing says you trust your institutions and...
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