Another Reason to Go Vegan

DELAURO ON USDA DECISION TO
DECREASE PRESENCE IN POULTRY INSPECTION

Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, released the following statement today in response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s announcement on poultry food safety inspection practices.

Under the new proposed rule, the USDA will reduce visual inspections for chicken and turkey as they are processed and rely more on industry for the inspection of our food. 

“I strongly support modernizing our food safety system and making it more efficient-- but we must not do this at the expense of worker safety and public health. It is imperative that decisions regarding our food safety system are made with the public health as our highest priority. I look forward to working with the USDA and learning more about this proposed rule and ensuring that it does not compromise worker safety and the integrity of our food safety system.”

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DeLauro.House.Gov

"ICYMI Thursday" Dark Planet: - TrES-2b

Darkest Planet Found: Coal-Black, It Reflects Almost No Light

TrES-2b is black with a slight red glow

"Being less reflective than coal or even the blackest acrylic paint—this makes it by far the darkest planet ever discovered," lead study author David Kipping said.

Illustration courtesy David A. Aguilar, CFA

"If we could see it up close it would look like a near-black ball of gas, with a slight glowing red tinge to it—a true exotic amongst exoplanets," added Kipping, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[…]

"Some have proposed that this darkness may be caused by a huge abundance of gaseous sodium and titanium oxide," Kipping said. "But more likely there is something exotic there that we have not thought of before.

"It's this mystery that I find so exciting about this discovery."

Sisters of Mercy 1985

Then I saw this:

Priceless ending comments. Love this kid.