AlphastareJan 9, 2023
Guess I’ll find that knurlie later…
#modularsynth #synthesizer #animalfactory #eurorackmodular #needhamwoodworks #zlob #MakeNoise
Show threadbs2Jun 13, 2022
> you drive down the highway in #Iowa.. you see them one after the other after the other. They’re often interspersed, #PoultryFactory next to a #HogFactory, which of course increases the chance for interspecies mingling of influenza virus. If we thought #SwineFlu was bad, we may get an avian swine flu hybrid from the close proximity of these factories. From the outside, they look fairly innocuous.
https://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/24/david_kirby_on_the_looming_threat
#chickens #pigs #AnimalFactory And people have to work here...
David Kirby on “The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment”

We speak with David Kirby about his book Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment. “We need more regulations, and we need enforcement of the regulations,” Kirby says. “These [food] companies are self-policing, and they are operating on the honor system. And consumers are obviously paying the price.” [includes rush transcript]

Democracy Now!
Show threadbs2Jun 13, 2022
> The largest egg recall in US history is bringing renewed attention on the dangers of factory farming and on growing consolidation in the industries responsible for the food many Americans eat. Over half a billion eggs have been pulled off US shelves in the past two weeks following an outbreak of salmonella in the Midwest. Nearly 1,300 cases of people sickened by the eggs have been reported.
https://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/24/largest_egg_recall_in_us_history
#chickens #AnimalFactory #Salmonella #eggs
Largest Egg Recall in US History Brings Renewed Attention to Dangers of Industrial Farming

The largest egg recall in US history is bringing renewed attention to the dangers of factory farming and to growing consolidation in the industries responsible for the food many Americans eat. Over half a billion eggs have been ordered off US shelves in the past two weeks following an outbreak of salmonella in the Midwest. Nearly 1,300 cases of people sickened by the eggs have been reported. Despite the size of the recall, responsibility falls on just two factory farms: Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg, both from Iowa. [includes rush transcript]

Democracy Now!
bs2Jun 13, 2022
> .. authorities[1] appear to have learned.. lessons from 2015, when a bird flu outbreak resulted in what the US agriculture department calls “the largest poultry health disaster in US history”, with the slaughter of about 50 million chickens and turkeys.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa
#AnimalFactory #chickens #RembrandtEnterprises #GlenTaylor #Timberwolves #AvianFlu
[1] Still not learning to reform centralized large-scale organization for decentralized small-scale activity with resilience.
US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker

Laborers worked for a month disposing of birds killed in a gruesomely inhumane manner. Then they found they too were disposable

The Guardian