The father and son [Jack and Peter DeCoster] at the center of this summer’s salmonella outbreak tried to shift responsibility for the problems at their Iowa egg farms, at one point blaming the Iowa weather, as lawmakers grilled them today on the cause of the contamination.
The weather, really? Really:
He blamed the Iowa weather for delaying the removal of manure that was piled so high it forced open the doors of hen houses, providing an easy way for rodents to infect the barns.
Yeah, y’know it has rained and snowed in Iowa this year, but living here, by and large it isn’t exactly Pakistan…except apparently at DeCoster farms.




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Sen. Tom Coburn likes his eggs sunny side up, please.
Corporate farms are not farms rather they are factories
Surprise surprise
Yep, we need to check our eggs to make sure they’re from … Texas? I think not.
The example of the tainted eggs should remind us that capitalism destroys everything it touches. I see no reason why marijuana would be exempt.
The quality of marijuana has improved steadily the wole time it’s been illegal. Perhaps economists can comment on the irony that keeping pot illegal has caused the product to improve. But once we legalize weed, it will fall into the hands of the capitalists, and this shoul dgive us pause.
When grass is legalized, it will fall into the hands of the corporate types, who will immediately start making the product worse and worse. This is what corporate folks always do.
They will set about reducing the quality, adding weird chemicals for color, flavor, aroma, to adjust kindling temperature, to improve shelf life, and just for the hell of it. The price of marijuana will skyrocket, to cover the costs of advertising, lawsuits, package design, monopolistic collusion, and the suborning of legislators.
Laws will be changed and regulations eased. Mergers and buy-outs wiull soon ensure that all competiton has disappeared. Within a few years, people will be smoking chemicalized cabbage leaves.
I’m in favor of legalizing all drugs for adults. But if we do, we must make sure to impose strict regulations. Otherwise, the corporate boys will ruin everything.
The Corporate Way
I’ve had computer problems lately, plus they’ve blocked this site at work. So, I’ve missed you all. Thanks, Attaturk, glad to be back.
I call for a strike against those companies that give money to conservatives in both parties http://www.democratz.org
And at corporate insistence the cops will again start going after the grower of a few plants for his/her own use. Nuts it is.
And the whole business of using “we can tax weed” as an excuse to get votes is absurd. But, hey, it is better, for some, to spend time piddling about with legalizing a weed than it is to spend time trying to get decent health care or deal with a myriad of other real problems.
Good morning, pups. Today it’s Collins and Kristof. Ms. Collins, in “Don’t Ask, Don’t Debate,” says that as Lady Gaga rallied crowds in Maine, the Senate (including a senator whom Gaga was appealing to) got lost in procedural debate this week. Mr. Kristof, in “Boast, Build and Sell,” says it’s been 10 years since world leaders created eight antipoverty goals to be achieved by 2015. He has three suggestions to aid and inspire the process.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got waffles with warm maple syrup this morning. And I’ve also got a mob of hungry kittehs pacing on the porch so it’s time to go scrounge up their breakfast. Have a great day.
Corporate Sodomy………
Meanwhile, here’s Fox News at its Finest, Part XII.
You obviously never smoked genuine Columbian Red or Jamaican Gold from the 1970s. If you had, you’d know that the quality of pot has NOT improved over the years. However, I must agree with you about what the consequences of full legalization will probably be.
There has always been this one good reason to ‘believe”! You have some one to pass on the blame for all failures and explain the reason to his mysterious ways of doing things, you know!
Because, you know, Iowa weather is nothing if not impossible to anticipate. Meanwhile,
WTF??!!!
Would perhaps the ‘weather problem’ be related to Climate change? Give that door (trap).
Pretty funny… especially the part about Iowa weather being so “unpredictable.”
What?! No snow plows?!
Hey, we produced a president too, Herbert Hoover! Oops, why did I just remind everyone of that?
Flashback, maybe?
My WTF moment on that question is when DeCoster whined that the manure was only piled that high at “four of the 29 doors.” ???????????
(my italics)