Happy Birthday, George!

From the New York Times comes this fine article by William Burroughs celebrating George Orwell's 100th birthday...
10:53:13 AM     comment []

Basically this details research going on at Purdue and elsewhere showing that happy animals make better tasting meat.

Gee, do ya think?

Humans figured out a long time ago that stress and angst really effect our health - and that sick, scrawny animals make poor meat. It looks like somebody (besides us grass farmers) finally added one and one and got two!

Animal Welfare's Unexpected Allies. McDonald's and Burger King are now financing research that they would have dismissed as silly ten years ago. By David Barboza. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
10:21:48 AM     comment []

The Man speaks ....

RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD [Slashdot]
10:19:30 AM     comment []