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Cesar Millan’s Short Guide to a Happy Dog – Cesar Millan
After more than 9 seasons as TV’s Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan has a new mission: to use his unique insights about dog psychology to create stronger, happier relationships between humans and their canine companions. Now in paperback, this inspirational and practical guide draws on thousands of training encounters around the world to present 98 essential lessons. Taken together, they will […]
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo
This New York Times best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing. Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese cleaning consultant […]
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White Dwarf Issue 110: 5th March 2016 (Tablet Edition) – White Dwarf
So, here we are – an insidious alien cult has been uncovered, and White Dwarf 110 is here to drag it kicking and screaming out into the light. We’ve got a special feature on the Genestealer Cults – what are they? How does a whole world fall thrall to such terrifying alien monstrosities? – plus […]
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Warhammer 40,000: The Rules – Games Workshop
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war… Warhammer 40,000: Gamer's Edition is your complete digital guide to waging war in the 41st millennium. Inside you will find the rules for the Warhammer 40,000 game, covering all the basics of how to play, including movement, shooting, close combat, vehicles and a […]
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Spark Joy – Marie Kondo
Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up has revolutionized homes—and lives—across the world. Now, Kondo presents an illustrated guide to her acclaimed KonMari Method, with step-by-step folding illustrations for everything from shirts to socks, plus drawings of perfectly organized drawers and closets. She also provides advice on frequently asked questions, such as whether to […]
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Straw Bale Gardens Complete – Joel Karsten
“Are you ready to learn about a transformative garden technology that could change your life – for less than $100?” – New York Times Take your straw bale gardening to the next level – in more places, with new products, and even, sometimes, skipping the straw! The reception and enthusiasm for straw bale gardening, introduced […]
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White Dwarf Issue 110: 5th March 2016 (Mobile Edition) – White Dwarf
So, here we are – an insidious alien cult has been uncovered, and White Dwarf 110 is here to drag it kicking and screaming out into the light. We’ve got a special feature on the Genestealer Cults – what are they? How does a whole world fall thrall to such terrifying alien monstrosities? – plus […]
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Marie Kondo’s The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Summary – Ant Hive Media
Made for those who find themselves drowning in clutter, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo is a must have. What makes this book special is that it delivers a whole new approach called the KonMari method when decluttering, arranging and storing items at home. Author, Marie Kondo, is a Japanese cleaning […]
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White Dwarf Issue 109: 27th February 2016 (Tablet Edition) – White Dwarf
Suffer not the alien to live! White Dwarf 109 arrives with news of a stunning new boxed game – Deathwatch Overkill, pitting the Space Marines of the Deathwatch against – wait for it – the insidious alien threat of a Genestealer Cult! Yes, that’s right, long before the arrival of the hive fleets, the Genestealers […]
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How to Raise the Perfect Dog – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier
From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel's Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, […]
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We’re Eating Less Meat—Yet Factory Farms Are Still Growing
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The United States remains one of the globe’s most carnivorous nations, but things have changed subtly in recent decades. While our consumption of chicken has skyrocketed, we’re eating much less red meat.
Carolyn Perot
Overall per capita meat consumption has fallen nearly 10 percent since the 2007-‘8 financial meltdown; and as we cut back on quantity, we’re more likely to pay up for animals raised outside and not dosed with all manner of drugs.
Meanwhile, though, the meat industry lurches on, consolidating operations and stuffing its factory-scale facilities ever tighter with animals, as the organization Food and Water Watch shows in a recently updated map:
See the interactive version of this map here. Food and Water Watch
The charts below show the big picture. Note that the overall number of animals kept on US farms is leveling off, and in the case of beef cattle and meat chickens (broilers), actually dropping a bit. But the number of animals stuffed into each facility remains steadily on the rise for beef and dairy cows, hogs, and egg-laying hens. The number of meat chickens per site has plateaued—at the stunning level of more than 100,000 birds.
Among the many ecological problems you create when you concentrate so many animals in one place is massive loads of manure. How much?
These factory-farmed livestock produced 369 million tons of manure in 2012, about 13 times as much as the sewage produced by the entire U.S. population. This 13.8 billion cubic feet of manure is enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys stadium 133 times.
When humans live together in large numbers, as in cities, we’ve learned to treat our waste before sending it downstream. The meat industry faces no such requirement, and instead collects manure in large outdoor cesspools (known, picturesquely, as “lagoons”) before being spread on surrounding farmland. Some individual counties churn out much more waste than large metropolises. Here’s Food and Water Watch on the nation’s most dairy- and hog-centric counties:
Recycling manure as farm fertilizer is an ecologically sound idea in the abstract—but when animals are concentrated in such numbers, they produce much more waste than surrounding landscapes can healthily absorb. As a result, nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus leach into streams and rivers, feeding algae blooms and fouling drinking water. Then there are bacterial nasties. “Six of the 150 pathogens found in animal manure are responsible for 90 percent of human food- and water-borne diseases: Campylobacter, Salmonella, Listeria, E. coli 0157:H7, Cryptosporidium and Giardia,” Food and Water Watch reports.
Air, too, is a problem, as anyone who’s ever gotten close to a teeming cow, pig, or chicken facility can testify. Thousands of people, of course, are forced to live near them or work on them, and it’s no picnic. “Overexposure to hydrogen sulfide a pungent gas emanating from lagoons can cause dizziness, nausea, headaches, respiratory failure, hypoxia and even death,” Food and Water Watch states. “Workers in factory farm facilities experience high levels of asthma-like symptoms, bronchitis and other respiratory diseases.”
And these counties tended to be bunched together in great manure-churning clusters. Note, for example, how most industrial-scale hog production takes place in the Midwest and in eastern North Carolina:
While Big Chicken has chosen to alight largely upon the southeast, the Mississippi Delta, and California’s Central Valley:
So why are these large facilities humming even as US eaters cut back? Globally, demand for meat continues to rise, and the dark-red spots on the maps above have emerged as key production nodes in an increasingly globalized meat market. US meat exports have tripled in value since 1997 (USDA numbers), and the industry wants more, as evidenced by its push to support the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal with Asia.
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Why This Woman Never Suffers From Winter Cold In Her Home
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