Meet that drumstick

I believe that you should know where the meat you eat was slaughtered and where it came from   (even better if you do it yourself). That day has arrived. Trackers are being put in live chickens so that you can name and follow then from birth to your plate.

Goodbye horrors on factory farms!

Shoppers are willing to pay a premium for ingredients that are cage-free, organic or wild caught. But how do you really know if the chicken you are eating spent its life happily pecking for corn or if your blackberries were grown locally and are pesticide free?

Simple. Put a tracking device on it.

It's not as absurd as it sounds, says Robyn Metcalfe, a food historian who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. A GPS tracker strapped to the leg of a chicken, says Metcalfe, means "that people who potentially will buy that chicken will know every step that that chicken has taken."

ZhongAn Online, a Chinese insurance company, has already outfitted more than a 100,000 chickens with trackers. The sensors upload information, such as how much exercise each chicken gets and what it ate. The company says the technology will be on 2,500 farms in China by next year.

They are also working on facial-recognition technology so that consumers can one day make sure the organic chicken they saw on the farm is the same one that ends up on their plate.

Next  up? 

Beef  Dairy and Veal 

What do I do my husband is depressed?

Often I get letters for advice advice but  I know very little about so much I tend not to answer but this one was kind of fun, 

Here's the question

What can the wife of a man with bipolar do to help him. He has struggled (never accepted or managed) for 50 years, with the disease. As a friend, high school classmate, and wife of 20 years, I struggle with him. The cycle is ALWAYS the same… Depression, to the point of becoming suicidal, get to a hospital/doctor for meds and counseling, regain functionality, feel he doesn’t need the meds, so he stops, and plummets to the deepest, darkest depression, worse than the last time. Never held a job more than parttime for about 5  years he refuses to accept/own the illness and “fights” the information I share from your site with him. I think the information is right on point. He’s 68 years old. What can I do? What can I expect from him? Now, he sleeps 24/7, refuses to eat. I schedule Dr appointments, but he refuses to go. No personal hygiene practices (one time in the past, he went 8 months without shower or brushing teeth. Right now, we’re going on three weeks.) We are Christians and surrounded by genuinely unselfish, loving, supportive friends/family. What can I do? Thank you so much!!

Here's my answer

Get him involuntary committed and refuse to take him back unless he agrees to treatment and management. This can be an extremely dangerous situation for you and I’m sure you have experienced some violence. In a state like that he probably rejects God as well and consequently other types of energy (darkness) will begin to rule him.

Do not feel a speck of guilt ( he doesn’t) and enjoy your vacation while he is in treatment. If you let him he will take you and everyone around him and suck up your energy like a dry sponge. If you let this happen you will be caught in an endless cycle just like some alcoholics or drug addicts. The attention that they get from involving others in their downward spiral is an addiction in itself.

If I were you I’d file for divorce based on financial and psychological abuse and go on to find someone who will love and cherish and enhance your life unless you too enjoy the drama in which case you are perfect for one another.

GOOD LUCK 

KAY 

Otherwise call 911 and get him out of your house.

Horrible state of the union for animals under Trump

There is no question  the Trump organization is rolling back important and hard fought  animal rights legislation ... but this is not a government that protects those that cannot speak and suffer. Like children and animals.

The impact of federal agencies over the past two years on animal protection has been more negative than positive. Some of the areas where we saw the Trump administration fail include:

The blackout of thousands of Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act inspection and enforcement records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture website, making it harder for Americans to learn which puppy mills, roadside zoos and research facilities, among other enterprises, are failing to comply with animal protection laws. The USDA has also cut back drastically on the number of warnings, official complaints and license revocations it applies to the worst puppy mills and other Animal Welfare Act violators.

Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke illegally established the “International Wildlife Conservation Council,” an advisory panel stacked with people who have an interest in killing or importing rare and endangered animals from overseas. The administration also lifted the import ban on Zimbabwe elephant and lion trophies.

Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service proposed weakening the Endangered Species Act, creating additional roadblocks to securing comprehensive protections for threatened species, and to make the process of removing species from the ESA easier.

The Department of the Interior proposed rolling back an Obama-era regulation that banned some of the worst and most appalling hunting practices on 20 million acres of federal public lands in Alaska, including using artificial light to kill hibernating bears and their cubs, shooting wolf and coyote pups and mothers in their dens, using bait to attract brown and black bears, shooting vulnerable swimming caribou and using dogs to hunt black bears. This, just after Congress revoked similar protections on 76 million acres of National Wildlife Refuge lands in Alaska in 2017.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed Yellowstone-area grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act, and the Department of Justice committed funds for legal fights in the federal courts to make this administration action permanent.