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On the Difficulty of Finding Pastured Animal Products

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Animals
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...tion–specifically eggs and meat from a farm that looks like the one in the picture above. I’m hugely disappointed. And I wish I could be more specific but I don’t want to end up in a lawsuit. Let’s just say that at this point I’m not aware of any animal welfare rating service that I consider adequate. Let’s not even talk about the joke that is the USDA. I do think there is a entrepreneurial opportunity here for someone to start a reliable third pa...

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Beans 101 (Return of Bean Friday!)

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Bean Fest, Food, How-to
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...ike to do is toss the makings of stock into the pot with the beans. In the picture below you see the gleanings from my fridge and garden, ready to go into the pot. An oldish carrot, a couple of stalks of celery, half of an onion leftover from something, a garlic clove (I like more, but ran out), some red chile flakes, and a bundle of herbs. The herbs are just what is in my garden now: fennel, parsley, thyme and sage, all tied together. I’d use dry...

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Sunday Spam: Automatic Chicken Cage

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Animals, Chickens, Picture Sundays, Thoughtstylings
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We interrupt the usual picture Sunday feature to bring you the best and most misdirected spam email that has ever graced the Root Simple in-box: Dear Sir or Madam, Liaocheng Dongying Hengtong Metal Manufacturing Co.,Ltd here. Glad to hear that you are on the market for Automatic chicken cage. We are a professional producer of the complete sets of equipment for raising birds. At present, it is an enterprise which has the import-export license and...

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Make a Rain Barrel

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Design, rainwater harvesting, Water and Power, Water Conservation
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...way from your foundation especially when, like us, you live on a hill. The picture at top shows our barrel installed with the overflow pipe connected to a pipe that runs down to the street. Los Angeles’ building code required us to run our rainwater out to the street, where it helps wash pollution into the LA River and the ocean (see creekfreak for more on LA’s pesky water issues). At least we’ll be channeling some of that water, via the barrel, t...

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Chairs, are they killing us?

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Design, Thoughtstylings
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...rs listening to a concert of classical Afghan music. It was a lot like the picture above. Everyone, young and old, sat on the floor, cross-legged for the entirety of the concert. Imagine a group of Americans sitting down to a Thanksgiving dinner like this. And we wonder why Americans injure themselves doing yoga? I have to ask what exactly do chairs do for us? Are they just about status, a kind of throne envy? I’m willing to bet that elderly peopl...

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