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HHS announces that “Product of USA” labels on food will only be put on American products that are "born here, raised here, harvested here, and processed here – no more loopholes, no more deception." That deception started back in 2015 when Barack Obama signed a law repealing the mandatory COOL provisions that required retailers to disclose where animals were born, raised, and slaughtered. COOL provisions made it harder for foreign companies to deceive American buyers with their foreign-raised livestock - masquerading as American. Obama didn't think that protection was necessary, and the transparency vanished for beef and pork. Imported cattle (often from Canada or Mexico) could be finished or simply slaughtered/processed in U.S. plants and still carry the USA label, undercutting domestic ranchers while misleading consumers who assumed “Product of USA” meant born-and-raised here. Secretary Rollins saying, “This new standard policy ensures producers who invest in a fully American supply chain can compete fairly, and it gives consumers the confidence they deserve about the food they bring home” “Our great patriot ranchers and producers grow, raise, and harvest the world’s safest, most affordable, and abundant food supply. American consumers want to support America by buying American and this label will strengthen our food supply chain through transparency, fairness, and trust.” Secretary Kennedy added, “Our farmers and ranchers are essential to putting real food back at the center of the American plate… ‘Product of the USA’ labeling puts American producers first, gives families clear, honest information, and empowers them to choose food raised right here at home.” Both say it's essential to start protecting US famers: 🔺️Over 17% of family farms have been lost since 2017 – which equals out to more than 100,000 farms. 🔺️National cattle herds are at a 75-year low. Consumer beef demand has gone up 9% in the past decade. 🔺️The strengthened voluntary “Product of USA” rule is a major conservative victory for transparency and American ranchers as it directly fixes the deception which started in 2015. However, it does not equal full mandatory COOL - and does not repeal Obama's law. Many rancher groups (including R-CALF USA, Kansas Farmers Union, and Montana COOL Coalition) continue to push Congress and the Trump administration for mandatory labeling, arguing the voluntary rule is a good first step but still allows imported meat to be sold without clear information on where it came from. 🎩 ChristinaAguayoNew

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Who would have thought that inspiration for advanced technology could come from the wild? The peregrine falcon, this bird of prey, holds the record as the fastest animal in the world, with a diving speed of up to 400 km/h when hunting prey. This extreme speed doesn't make it difficult to breathe. The secret lies in a small structure on its nose called a "tubercle," which regulates airflow to maintain stability even under high pressure. Without this mechanism, its respiratory system could be damaged by the strong airflow during freefall. This unique feature has not escaped the attention of scientists and engineers. The natural aerodynamic principles of this bird have inspired the development of modern aviation technology, including the design of high-speed aircraft and the stability of jet engines. In fact, this concept has served as a reference in the development of stealth aircraft like the United States' Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit. From the wild skies to billion-dollar military technology, the peregrine falcon proves that nature is the best teacher for human innovation.

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Here is the bit about the Mongols that doesn't make it into the massacre statistics. After the conquest, there was peace. The Pax Mongolica. Roughly a century, from about 1250 to 1350, during which the Silk Road, the great overland trade route connecting China to the Mediterranean, which had been fragmented for centuries between competing kingdoms, extortionate toll collectors, and bandits who operated with the casual confidence of men who knew the next checkpoint was run by their cousin: was unified under a single administrative structure for the first and only time in history. A merchant could load silk in Hangzhou, follow the route through Kashgar and Samarkand and Tabriz, and arrive in Constantinople having crossed something like eight thousand miles without a single border crossing, toll gate, or serious risk of robbery. Marco Polo did exactly this, between 1271 and 1295, and wrote about it at length in a book that Venetians read with the disbelief of people encountering a travel account from a planet where the rules are different. He went west to east. The wealth was in the east. Everyone knew this. The infrastructure that made it possible was the yam: the Mongol postal relay system, which stationed fresh horses and riders at intervals of roughly twenty-five miles across the entire empire. A message could travel from Karakorum, the Mongol capital, a city of felt tents and wooden palaces on the Orkhon River that Chinese ambassadors described with barely concealed bewilderment, to the Crimea in weeks. Nothing in Europe moved that fast. Nothing in Europe was organised to move that fast. The relay stations were provisioned with meat. Dried meat. Fermented dairy. The foods that didn't require a supply chain, that didn't rot in transit, that a rider could eat in the saddle without stopping, because stopping was what you did when you had failed. The greatest trading network the medieval world ever produced was staffed by men eating the same food that had built the empire in the first place. And then the Black Death arrived from the east along those same perfectly maintained trade routes in 1346 and ended the whole thing in a way that even a Mongol administrator couldn't optimise around. But the point stands. A culture that ate meat and rode horses built the only period of genuine Eurasian free trade the medieval world ever experienced. The people who want to remove meat from the food system have not, as far as I can tell, produced a postal network of comparable efficiency.

You know what doesn't cause bloating? - Ribeye - Salmon - Ground beef - Chicken thighs You know what does cause bloating? - The rice under the beef - The bun around the burger - The beans next to the steak - The vegetables on the side Pattern recognition, people.

The Barak Obama Presidential Library is an homage to DEI hiring. Its millions over budget and already falling apart before it's even finished. Made entirely of concrete, the odds of it collapsing on itself increase every day.

>be North American grassland >60 million bison roam continent >massive enteric methane producers >constant manure deposition across millions of acres >hooves churning soil continuously >continent somehow not an ecological catastrophe >atmosphere not on fire >topsoil twelve feet deep in places >thousands of species of plants, insects, birds, mammals >entire ecosystem thriving >then: agriculture >bison gone within 50 years >grass ploughed >monoculture corn as far as the eye sees >synthetic fertiliser replaces manure >pesticides replace the natural pest pressure the prairie managed without chemicals for millions of years >topsoil gone within a century in the worst-affected areas >Dust Bowl >rivers running brown with the soil the prairie held for millennia >modern cattle: 48 million, regulated, rotated, managed >smaller herd than the bison >causing the ecological catastrophe the bison somehow didn't cause >according to people who have not been to a grassland >it's the cattle >definitely the cattle >nothing to do with the ploughing >carry on

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Hillary gave Putin 20% of U.S. uranium. Putin “donated” $145 million to the Clinton Foundation. Putin paid Bill $500,000 to speak, for 30 minutes. Obama gave Iran & Ayatollah Khamenei $150 billion, in cash. Iran used cash, to buy uranium. Putin sold uranium to Iran (Ayatollah Khamenei). Iran uses Hillary’s uranium to build nuclear bombs. And they investigated President Trump? P.S. Then, Hillary deleted 33,000+ emails, AFTER being served with federal subpoenas! - @DominguezH31015

"Meat contains hormones." It does. So does everything that was ever alive. Oestrogen content comparison: - 100g conventional beef (with hormone implant, US): 2.1 nanograms oestrogen - 100g organic beef (no implant): 1.5 nanograms oestrogen - 100g soy milk: 30,000 nanograms phytoestrogen equivalents - 100g tofu: 20,000 nanograms - 100g flaxseed: 379,000 nanograms If you are worried about exogenous hormones in the food supply, the food to examine is not the beef. The beef is at 2 nanograms. The soy is at 30,000. The concern has been directed exclusively at the wrong end of this table.

As an electrical engineer, I still support Trans Day of Visibility in 2026. It's about time people acknowledged the great contribution this hardworking device brings to the community. Unlike the other transwhatever."

>be AHA >1948 >basically broke, running on vibes and good intentions >Procter & Gamble shows up >they make Crisco, a vegetable shortening, a product that is losing the cultural war against butter and lard >they hand you $1.7 million, the largest donation in your history >suddenly have national offices, radio reach, the ability to publish actual guidance >begin formally recommending people replace animal fats with seed oils >P&G stock does not suffer >fast forward 75 years >issue new dietary guidance >recommend soybean oil and canola oil over beef tallow and butter >recommend plant protein over meat >recommend low-fat dairy >cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the Western world >issue press release >recommend more soybean oil >the $1.7 million has fully amortised

Sugar addiction isn't real, apparently. Because nobody's cutting lines of caster sugar in a nightclub toilet. Nobody's stealing to fund a croissant habit. Nobody wakes up shaking if they don't have a Hobnob. So it must not be real. What is real: Dopamine release on consumption. Check. Tolerance build-up requiring more for the same effect. Check. Cravings during withdrawal. Check. Relapse triggered by stress or environmental cues. Check. Rationalisation and minimisation of consumption. Absolutely check. The pharmacology of sugar addiction maps onto classical addiction pathways with the kind of accuracy that should prompt a serious conversation. It hasn't prompted a serious conversation. It's prompted a third supermarket aisle of "reduced sugar" products containing maltodextrin, which has a higher glycaemic index than table sugar. Addiction isn't defined by the delivery mechanism. It's defined by the neurological response. The response is real. The industry prefers to argue about the mechanism.

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