Saturday, March 12, 2011
"The truth is, even if you follow your favorite gardener's tomato-growing advice or a strict organic gardening regimen, the tomatoes in your garden will be just as cardboard as the supermarket varieties if those are the varieties you choose to plant. Most tomato hybrids are created for their market presentation and shipping characteristics, and these are not usually the features you want your home-grown tomatoes to have. Gardeners want luscious, flavorful tomatoes that ripen to perfection on the vine. Today's typical new varieties of tomatoes are genetically manipulated with non-tomato genes and other forms of DNA"
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
White House Believes Court Contempt Citation is a Traffic Ticket - Yahoo! News
White House Believes Court Contempt Citation is a Traffic Ticket - Yahoo! News: "Three months after the first Gulf drilling ban, Judge Martin Feldman ruled that it was too broad, and must be revised or lifted. As if Judge Feldman's ruling was akin to a ticket for illegal parking, Secretary Salazar simply imposed a second drilling ban using the template for the first one. That disregard for law and the courts earned a citation for being in contempt , when Feldman spanked the Interior Department for its legal tone deafness."
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Three-Legged Deer and the Hard Pennsylvania Winter - Yahoo! News
Three-Legged Deer and the Hard Pennsylvania Winter - Yahoo! News One of the saddest sights in the world is a three-legged deer. We saw one in the winter of the first year we moved here. It was a year of soft snow, but it was cold.
It was just after the deer season we saw the pathetic creature, its leg still attached, and dangling. You could see a bit of red meat exposed to the air, and the better upper leg was swollen. My wife called the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
My wife is one of those animal lovers who won't let a person rest so long as there's a suffering animal in the world. There are lots of suffering Whitetail deer along the Pennsylvania roads where we live.
The Game Commission officer told my wife "no." I couldn't shoot the deer. Lots of three-legged deer survive, the man said.
One day we noticed that the dangling leg had dropped off. By then, it was spring and there was plenty to eat. We always wondered if "Three Legs" had been hit by a car or a bullet.
People drive the highways around here as if they have sole right of passage. The deer lie along the roadside, bloated, mashed, bloody and broken. The traffic passes on the main highway in an unending stream, oblivious to the slaughter.
In the spring, the fawns die even along the country roads. The adults less frequently die at the deer trails crossing the road.
It was just after the deer season we saw the pathetic creature, its leg still attached, and dangling. You could see a bit of red meat exposed to the air, and the better upper leg was swollen. My wife called the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
My wife is one of those animal lovers who won't let a person rest so long as there's a suffering animal in the world. There are lots of suffering Whitetail deer along the Pennsylvania roads where we live.
The Game Commission officer told my wife "no." I couldn't shoot the deer. Lots of three-legged deer survive, the man said.
One day we noticed that the dangling leg had dropped off. By then, it was spring and there was plenty to eat. We always wondered if "Three Legs" had been hit by a car or a bullet.
People drive the highways around here as if they have sole right of passage. The deer lie along the roadside, bloated, mashed, bloody and broken. The traffic passes on the main highway in an unending stream, oblivious to the slaughter.
In the spring, the fawns die even along the country roads. The adults less frequently die at the deer trails crossing the road.
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