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USDA Inspector General: meat supply routinely tainted with harmful residues. In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat and livestock industries. Oh, you wanted those burgers without harmful residues! Sorry, the USDA’s meat-inspection service can’t really help you on that score. Next time you’re at an eatery whose sourcing practices you don’t trust, avoid the veal. Skip the burger, too. Those are the immediate takeaways from this stomach-turning report (PDF) from the USDA’s Office of the Inspector General. The long-term takeaways are more profound–and disturbing. The report focuses on the USDA’s system for keeping hazardous chemical residues–”veterinary drugs, pesticides, and heavy metals”– out of the meat supply.
How is the agency doing at this critical task? The problem is not trivial, as the report makes clear: Residues of drugs, pesticides, and heavy metals differ from microbiological pathogens like E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria Monocytogenes, which the public more readily associates with food safety. As for veal … East Coast (ICEastCoast) Dorian Yablin's fundraising page for '25' Invisible Children Music. u8a22's Channel. Travel Europe by Train with your Eurail Pass. Photo Essay: Amazing Libraries Around the World. Can you believe what you see ? omg étonnant. How You Can Spot A Republican: A Joke. The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude. "She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be an Obama Democrat. " "I am," replied the man.
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The 12 Most Unintentionally Disturbing Christmas Ads. Christmas is the biggest shopping holiday of the year. So it's no surprise that companies spend every December absolutely bombarding us with ads full of cheerful, wholesome, uplifting messages to capitalize on all that goodwill and turn it into something useful: money. And then there are the ads that seem to want nothing to do with cheer and goodwill, but rather to unsettle you someplace deep in your soul, so that you will never be "right" again.
We think that's a pretty good idea because -- we don't know -- there's just something about you we plain don't like. So here, look upon these and despair: No that's not fake. Every picture tells a story, and this one only gets worse the more you think about it. Coca-Cola's Sprite Boy Coca-Cola had been brutally pimping Santa out for years by the time this ad came out in 1948. Two things: Nipples, and Santa has hung himself. Whatever the explanation, Merry Christmas, kids! But you know what's even worse? Look at his sunken, withered eyes. 8 Stupid Amazon Products With Impressively Sarcastic Reviews. Everybody is a comedian these days, and the Internet has given us all an enormous stage.
Maybe the best example is a supposedly comedy-free site like Amazon.com. The deal is, anybody can write a review, on any product, whether they have bought it or not. So it's just a matter of finding a baffling/ridiculous/useless product and watching the Internet's sarcasm run wild. For instance, just check out the reviews for ... The "Guardian Angel" Acupuncture Device Link Yeah, I know, sex toy jokes, right? Bizarrely so: By the way, the product description claims it's a Korean acupressure device. All right, I guess there was room for at least one good sex toy joke. Wheelmate Laptop Steering Wheel Desk This is a laptop desk that attaches to the steering wheel of your car, which is all that really needs to be said. Not to be a wet blanket and say you can't cut lines of coke during a high-speed chase once in a while. Or you can just enjoy this Back to the Future reference.
How To Avoid Huge Ships. Past & Present. Teenagers draw on animation film to highlight plight of child soldiers | Society. Untold Stories by Zoom Animation on YouTube Dili Diey, 25, fled to England from southern Sudan as a boy soldier and now lives in Huddersfield. "Count yourselves lucky to be at peace in Kirklees. Killing someone haunts you for the rest of your life," he tells a group of young people from four Kirklees schools.
Diey's harrowing story features in the animated film, Untold Stories, part of a new campaign, Books Not Bullets, to highlight the plight of child soldiers. Books Not Bullets is the brainchild of a group of Kirklees teenagers after they heard firsthand Diey's tales of genocide survivors. "Dili's story shocked us," says Janita Rauf, 14. "On a bad day, I wish I didn't have to go to school. "The children were from different social, economic and ethnic backgrounds. Most of the £8,000 funding came from Museums and Galleries with extra cash from the council's reducing inequalities fund. . • Untold Stories is being shown at Huddersfield Art Gallery until 2 April.
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