Editorial feature: How expanding animal agriculture swamped Pakistan BY MERRITT CLIFTON & KIM BARTLETT Crossposted with ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010 [print_link] Is the world close to reaching finite ecological limits on the production capacity of animal agriculture? • Flooding inundating more than a fifth of Pakistan in recent weeks may demonstrate that the limits have [...]
I first fished at age five, with my brother Greg, who is one year younger. Each of us caught a perch out of a lake in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fascinated, we watched the two perch swim around in a small bucket until first one and then the other died. I don’t remember what happened to [...]
“’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe….” –Lewis Carroll . “Enough for everyone; too much for none.” –Woof . Riff One My house is foreclosed on, my job is outsourced, and my wife runs away with a banker. So…,I figure there’s nothing left to do but pack up the [...]
We reprint below —in mildly annotated form—Jane Mayer’s important New Yorker exposé of the Koch brothers, a heinous, underhanded plutocratic duo. The interesting thing is that the idiotic hostility of these billionaire American satraps bathes Obama and his irrefutably conservative, pro-financial oligarchy administration in a leftish glow that they scarcely deserve. Such opposition from the [...]