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In short, the people who judge are full of it.
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Here we go, just a brief moment after I got this message via Google Talk (connected via Gaim):
(23:15:29) gmail.com: The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!
I found this up and ready!
Enjoy, everyone. 
I’m one of those people who prefers freerange raised meat over the corporate machine’s workings.
To me, I prefer the flavor — it doesn’t taste so bland, and actually seems to carry the essence of whatever animal it is that I’m eating. I’m also against all the crap they dump into these animals to keep them alive long enough to be slaughtered.
Imagine my delight when I read my email a few minutes ago. Here’s a couple of excerpts:
We wanted to share with you an important victory. Two weeks ago—after several years of pressure from the Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) coalition—the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made history by banning the use of the animal-antibiotic Baytril in poultry due to worries about the increase in antibiotic-resistant infections in people.
I eat chicken. Lots of chicken. Many of my dishes that I prepare are chicken-centric. However, it’s actually not that easy to find un-doped chicken without going the extra mile or two, here. Much of it comes from the corporate meat engines, and is stuffed full of antibiotic ‘goodness’. Ever wonder why children these days grow so much taller, and are more susceptible to staying sick? When you’re giving them second-hand dope in their food, there’s little to wonder about. It’s scary when a 12 year old girl is four inches taller than you at work (especially when you’re 18 years old, and 5′10″ at that time), wouldn’t you agree?
Knowing that there’s one less drug being stuffed down the gullets of the birds is a small comfort, to be honest.
This action marks the first time the FDA has withdrawn an agricultural antibiotic from the market because of concerns about antibiotic resistance affecting human health. Baytril is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic, much like the commonly used human antibiotic Cipro.
Yep. Antibiotics can’t do their work when you’re immune to ‘em, right? :p So removing Baytril should cause Cipro to start working a bit better on humans again, wouldn’t you think?
Keep fighting the good fight, Leo.
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I got bored today, so I got my lazy ass into the kitchen.
The result was this:
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