With this bacon consumption in Ness County hog prices should go up tomorrow.

Yet another great evening in Rural Kansas....good luck finding us.

This is why the Chipolte pork marketing gimmick is worth some time investment

​All major print news sources this week have printed "news" that burrito shop Chipolte is short on pork supplies and is not serving carnitas until further notice.

Here is below news brief USA Today refers to it as "animal abuse"

Chipolte pork shortage; supplier abuse

USA TODAY

"This is fundamentally an animal welfare decision, and is rooted in our ... the perceived high quality of its food and its rigid standards on animal abuse.

Tons more news outlets doing the same thing.

So what was the "abuse" you ask?

They say one supplier did not provide the pigs with enough bedding and access to the outdoors. Pig farmer was not named. 

Granted a food company can establish there own set of specs for food sales but when it is commonly referred to as animal abuse that pigs don't have access to outdoors when the outdoors is to freaking cold for the pig to even want to go out we should be troubled. And how does Chipolte know how much bedding a pig needs. Do they have science? I bed pigs every week and I am not sure what enough is.

So I encourage all who agree with me that we smell a rat here to simply find out which stores are serving and not serving pork right now. Drive up, walk in, make a phone call I don't care but don't spend one dime with these marketing manipulators.

Thanks and I look forward to the results.

Trent Loos

trentloos@gmail.com

All indications are it will be a great evening in Rural Ransom Kansas. Good luck finding us.

First I verified it... now I say Damn Straight.

DON CHERRY, Canadian Hockey Commentator for CBC Television, was asked on a local live radio talk show, what he thought about the allegations of torture of suspected terrorists. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience.   HIS STATEMENT: "If hooking up one rag head terrorist prisoner's testicles to a car battery to get the truth out of the lying little camel shagger will save just one Canadian or American life, then I have only three things to say: 'Red is positive, black is negative, and make sure his nuts are wet."

 

I much prefer this view 34,000 feet lower.

It is 4:15 am Sat morning and my sleepless night has true sense of accomplishment.

The irony of the world today as I save the bacon, or Spam

As I sit with this first litter gilt assisting her farrowing I am reading a terribly misleading article about the abuse to make Spam.

First I wipe every pig dry at birth with a towell. Then assist the little turds with there first meal.

If this is abuse I WANT SOME

U.S. Mayor issue the annual Hunger and Homeless report. Two LowLights listed here

Memphis had the worst hunger problem of the 25 cities examined in the U.S. Conference of Mayors' new report: 46% of the requests for emergency food assistance in Tennessee's largest city—almost half—were being unmet. 

San Francisco is among the worst for hunger: 37% of the requests for emergency food assistance in San Francisco went unmet in the last year (compared to 15% in Denver or 10% in Charlotte, NC). 

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Read the whole story by linking here

USDA has proven managed cattle grazing improves plant diversity yes Dietary Committee chooses to ignore

 "Plant diversity is highest when high numbers of plant species are combined with a more even distribution of production among species," the ARS report said. "(Richard H.) Hart and his colleagues found 46 species of plants on the moderately grazed land, compared to 43 under heavy grazing and 36 under light grazing."

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SCIENTISTS STUDY IMPACT OF CATTLE ON PASTURE, RANGELAND

Link to whole story

USDA/HHS are about to screw up human health for the worse.

Drew Ramsey is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and is co-author of "The Happiness Diet." He wrote this in the New York Times:

"Meat, fish and eggs are our only concentrated dietary sources of vitamin D, vitamin B12, omega-3 fats (which play a huge role in brain health), heme-iron (which increases the absorption of iron from vegetables) and conjugated linoleic acid, which appears to fight cancer and heart disease."

​Dr. Arthur Beaudet, professor and chair of Molecular and Human Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine, is one of the leading scientists looking at autism in children.

"My work clearly shows that kids who eat beef early in life have a lower incidence of autism than those who do not. Human breast milk and even infant formula are excellent sources of carnitine but when we transition infants to solid food, we often feed primarily pureed vegetables and cereal, leaving a real void for carnitine production in the body."