Texas Town Outlaws Common Sense

...ave decided to enforce codes outlawing backyard chickens and Marye Audet a food writer, author and owner of nineteen heritage breed Barred Rocks has been pulled into their poultry dragnet. She ain’t happy about it. “My dad and my father- in- law were WWII vets. I am a veteran. My husband is a disabled veteran. My oldest son is in Iraq currently, for his second tour of duty. And this afternoon, as I shut the door, in tears, I wondered…This is what...

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Saturday Tweets: A Wacky Week

...//t.co/lFNgzheylY — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 13, 2016 Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests https://t.co/sC98D5n4XW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 13, 2016 Drones to unleash vaccine-laced M&Ms in bid to save endangered ferrets https://t.co/3qgoli6bFq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 12, 2016 Smokey was wrong. You can’t prevent wildfires, and you shouldn’t try. https://t.co/q0xRSrFqtF via @grist — Root Simple (@r...

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