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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
(Graphic credit of the incredibly talented @Megapope and @Coleytangerina)
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Do you need another reason to stop eating beef?
Ractopamine
The Russians understand its dangers
If this has not persuaded you already….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKeE_SPSbio
[link fixed – weka]
How to eat meat ethically
My emphasis.
http://civileats.com/2016/05/27/how-a-former-vegetarian-became-a-butcher-and-ethical-meat-advocate/
Many see no such thing as ethical meat…..
The Organic and ‘Free-Range’ Myths
Morrissey – Meat is Murder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FC1GRpYA-Q
[link fixed – weka]
The website I linked to, while it encompasses organic and free-range is in fact a different thing. Organic and free-range are not necessarily ethical, although they generally are more ethical than conventional and many are very ethical depending on who the farmer is. This is why it’s good to know who grows your meat, because that’s where you have the most influence over the wellbeing of animals.
People who think meat is murder are obviously not going to think it’s possible to eat meat ethically, but as pointed out, they’ve left the fate of animals to the corporates who will treat them very badly.
As for using PETA as a source, let’s just pick one of their comments apart,
Cows on organic farms often aren’t given antibiotics—even when they’re sick or when their udders become infected, something that happens often—because medicated animals lose their “organic” status.
Here’s the NZ Biogro standard from the above link,
Not all ‘organic’ is the same. It pays to understand which certifications can be trusted and why. PETA could of course have pointed this out and helped meat eaters make better choices that ensure better welfare for animals, but it doesn’t because it’s a vegan propaganda machine and would rather promote dogma than effective animal welfare.
The russkies may have got some beef confused with one of their athletes.
NZ Biogro organic standards for animals,
http://www.biogro.co.nz/s/Module_5_Livestock-y83j.pdf
I must note that credit for the excellent Waitangi Day bingo board above goes to @Megapope and @Coleytangerina, two excellent human beings.
https://twitter.com/Megapope/status/827332716601319425
[I am very embarrassed. Graphic now credited appropriately – MS]
George Monbiot always writes thought provoking articles.
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How corporate dark money is taking power on both sides of the Atlantic.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/02/corporate-dark-money-power-atlantic-lobbyists-brexit
what’s that first link suppose to be?
The Guardian article.
I was busy answering your point about meat and forgot to place text inside.
It kind of is depressing to read. Dark money and power, like a hydra, spreading its tentacles since WWII.
It’s like, no matter what the left attempts to do, these shadow networks throw up their representatives.
I have long wondered how it’s possible in NZ that disgraced, cabinet ministers return to power a few years down the tracks. The story of Liam Fox explains. Dark money and power are behind the scenes, manipulating, pulling the strings.
Monbiot has claimed there is group working on a plan for a way forward for the left. Still waiting….?
Only more bad news of the shadow powers, the hydra behind the scenes, pushing, leading, directing.
“In April 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt sent the US Congress the following warning: “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.” It is a warning we would do well to remember.”
sadly we are too late, FDR’s lesson was not heeded …..corporate power has been greater than the state itself for quite some time…..the kickback, when it comes will not be pleasant.
Philip Wollen : Animals Should Be Off The Menu
Hear it all here…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCe4qEexjc
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Speaking of Earthlings & vegetarians reminded me of this counterpoint…..
https://aeon.co/essays/if-aliens-treated-us-like-vegans-treat-animals-we-d-be-toast
Looks like Paul has found a new vegetarian hobby horse.
Lucky he’s not in France posting on le standarde or he’d soon be eating his words.
He certainly has a lot on his mind
On his plate anyway
Have you watched Earthlings?
Do you read or watch anything that anyone else posts that argues against your position? Can you give some examples?
Yes – I enjoy watching debates….like this one.
It is good to hear both sides of an argument.
That’s not watching something that argues against your position though, is it. Do you watch/read things that people on TS post that argue against your position?
“Have you watched Earthlings?”
From a distance, sure, but any of your propaganda films, absolutely not.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11794354
Perhaps Trump’ll buy it?
Tempting —
Enjoying some of the inventive #DressLikeAWoman tweets.
I think it’s a response to Trump saying his female staff should dress like a woman.
Always remember to #DressLikeAWoman when working on active volcanoes, everybody.
Photo with above link and the ones below:
#dresslikeawoman dragging a wookie, with a grenade. #badass #CarrieFisher
I’m not ashamed to #dresslikeawoman because I don’t think it’s shameful to be a woman. – @IggyPop
Shirley Ann Jackson. Nuclear Physicist, Engineer, College President, #DressLikeAWoman
Loads more at the hash tag – Friday night fun, with a serious twist.
ha ha, always great to have a bit of twitter fun.
Dubhthaigh Adams @lizduffyadams 5h5 hours ago
#dresslikeawoman Katharine Hepburn when harangued about not wearing a skirt: “I’ll wear it to your funeral.”
https://twitter.com/lizduffyadams/status/827356331975835648
Dylan A. Kent
@dylanakent
Women of the French Resistance #dresslikeawoman #resist #theresistance
https://twitter.com/dylanakent/status/827431871743160321
Ah, yes. That Katherine Hepburn one is very cool – saw it earlier today.
Resistance! Yay!
Love the Waitangi Day Bingo 🙂
Good news.
South Pacific islands ban western junk food and go organic
Latuff on Yemen
I see Trump has signed an executive order making the day of his inauguration
National day of Patriotic Devotion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/23/trump-names-his-inauguration-day-a-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion/
I kid you not, its something that Kim Jong Un would dream up.
This is going to be big next week as how truly mad Trump is, its far worse than we could ever have dreamed
” The novelist Robert Harris drew comparison to the Nazi “day of awakening” to celebrate Hitler’s election in 1933.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2017/jan/24/all-missed-trump-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion-sad-inauguration.
Dear leader’s election was indeed prophesied by a moose and heralded with a new moon in the heavens and a National Day of Patriotic Devotion.
National’s brighter future is here to stay. Shit-house infrastructure everywhere…
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/89091778/muddy-water-prompts-boil-water-notice-for-levin
So much shade.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-springsteen-taunt-trump-with-dont-hang-up-cover-w464557
So, Arkansas is hell.
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Arkansas Act 45, signed by Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson last Thursday, bans dilation and evacuation abortions, the most common abortion procedure during the second trimester of pregnancy. Rushed from filing to law in less than two months, the legislation effectively blocks abortions after 14 weeks by making the safest procedure a felony. The earliest current abortion bans block the procedure after 20 weeks.
With no exception for rape or incest, and a clause that allows a woman’s spouse or parent to sue an abortion provider, the law potentially allows the fetus’s father to sue even in cases of spousal rape or incest, abortion rights activists say. The law could go into effect as early as spring.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/02/new-law-lets-dads-veto-abortions.html
PN’s going off with the brighter future. These guys went to the hospital and were told to go back to the GP which they couldn’t afford.
I’m not entirely certain what a GP can do for a skin cancer patient that an actual hospital cannot do but then this is Bill English’s New Zealand.
According to Bill it’s about growth. Any kind of growth will do.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/88813708/future-snatched-away-from-manawatu-couple
That’s a very sad story, and angry-making. BE tweeted this the other day,
Which is exactly why that man is dying in poverty and his partner is looking after him in poverty. Because everyone should work or be treated like a bludger and god help you if you are too ill to work.
btw, GP would probably have a better idea of how to respond to a potential skin carcinoma than an A and E doctor, and can do mole removal in the clinic.
They were both cleaners so probably didn’t have spare cash. Then you have to be accepted by a GP. Was there one they could get to nearby? Then it would be helpful
if the government brought in a health referral that the A&E could give to the patient so that they could get their problem looked at by a GP free and that would make it less likely that the visit would be put off. The GP would of course claim the fee from the health authority.