Yes, I will be boycotting Target from now on!

Way to go, Barney!  Now if only more can speak up against misconceptions and flat-out lies and propaganda.

Read the articles at ImpeachBush.org.

About a year ago, I lowered my conventional beef intake to once a week. Now, I have decided that I will only eat naturally-raised beef once a week. I don’t want to be a vegetarian, and I don’t care for fish (even if I did, we hear so much about over-fishing that I wonder if that’s a viable option), so I will continue to eat meat. Beef is (was) the only conventional meat I eat. No more.

The image of the cow just waiting to die reminded me (literally) of the look on Timone (my deceased Italian Greyhound, my poopsie) when he was extremely ill. At that point, we knew we had no alternative than to put him down. How sad (that’s an understatement) that people could see that cow and not be moved.

What is with the USDA that they could allow this? Honestly, we’re talking about food that millions of people, including children, eat! Do they eat this stuff? Do they feed it to their children? I am appalled enough about the notion of not labeling genetically modified foods or even meat that may be from cloned animals*, but to allow us to each sick animals is horrendous. At least they closed down this plant. I wish we could close down the USDA! Well, maybe not, but at least get it to do the job it’s supposed to do.

*To the best of my knowledge, cloned meat is not (yet) used for human consumption. I don’t know if I’d want to eat cloned meat, but sure as hell know I’d want to make that choice myself!

Quiz Results

Below are the candidates ranked by how much I agree with their stances.

	Bill Richardson Score: 50 Video	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Energy
	John Edwards Score: 44 Video	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Line-Item Veto
	Hillary Clinton Score: 44	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Line-Item Veto
	Barack Obama Score: 44 Video	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Line-Item Veto
	Joe Biden Score: 44	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Social Security
	Chris Dodd Score: 43 Video	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Marriage	Disagree Iraq Immigration Line-Item Veto Death Penalty
	Dennis Kucinich Score: 43	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Marriage	Disagree Iraq Immigration Line-Item Veto Death Penalty
	Mike Gravel Score: 42	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Marriage	Disagree Iraq Immigration Line-Item Veto Energy Death Penalty
	Mitt Romney Score: 23	Agree Stem-Cell Research Abortion Line-Item Veto Energy Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Social Security Marriage
	Rudy Giuliani Score: 23	Agree Stem-Cell Research Abortion Energy Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto
	John McCain Score: 15	Agree Line-Item Veto Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy
	Sam Brownback Score: 15	Agree Iraq Line-Item Veto Energy	Disagree Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Marriage Death Penalty
	Tom Tancredo Score: 14	Agree Immigration Line-Item Veto	Disagree Iraq Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Marriage Death Penalty
	Ron Paul Score: 14	Agree Social Security Marriage	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Line-Item Veto Energy Death Penalty
	Jim Gilmore Score: 9	Agree Abortion Energy Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage
	Duncan Hunter Score: 9	Agree Line-Item Veto Energy Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Marriage
	Mike Huckabee Score: 8 Video	Agree Line-Item Veto Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Marriage
	Fred Thompson Score: 8	Agree Line-Item Veto Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Marriage

Take the quiz yourself at http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=25946 (thanks to Marlene for providing the link).

My brother Greg will be so proud.

For some time, I had been hearing about cow’s contribution to global warming, but didn’t know any of the details. Then I read this interview with Michael Pollan, and it convinced me. Pollan has also written The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, which I haven’t read yet.

? I love beef, and it is the only conventional (as opposed to organic) meat that I can still eat. But I, like just about every other American, feel impotent to stop global warming. This may be a nominal effort, but one that I am quite willing to undertake.