Friday follies and a cat

Logical fallacies.

The story of Haydn's skull.  And King Alfred's bones.

Worse than Enron.

USDA Moves to Approve "Agent Orange" GMO Seeds

It is expensive to be poor.

WWI corpses of soldiers uncovered as glaciers melt.

The stealth war on women's rights.

And working on silencing the poor.

There is enough food in the world to feed everyone.  Even cats.

Do you know how many food items have corn products in them?

Over the holidays, the USDA approved a strain of Monsanto's genetically engineered corn that can now be planted freely in the environment and distributed throughout the U.S. food supply, with no oversight or efforts to track its safety. Monsanto says the strain is drought-tolerant, but the USDA itself has actually found otherwise. Instead, the agency ignored its own results as well as concerns from the public, which has little trust in the safety of the crop. Nearly 45,000 public comments were written in opposition to the particular corn variety and only 23 comments were written in favor, according to the Cornucopia Institute.

Update: Bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn. Imagine our surprise!  Who could have predicted?

 And there's more! Back in July 2011: 270,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto. Their case update here.