Coming short on the heels of the nation’s mortgage banking meltdown, swine flu virus should sound another alarm about unrestrained capitalism run amok. How many wake-up calls do we need? It should be obvious that our current state of agriculture–industrialized and corporatized down to the last piglet–is designed not for our health and well being, but to line [...]
Sarah Palin is determined to bring a cartoon character to the White House, dag blammit. Or is it Joe Six-Pack we’re supposed to elect? I get confused. But gosh darn it, why can’t we just have some ordinary person leading the country–somebody just as dim as you or I? After reading every scrap of media [...]
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We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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