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Approximately 20 million chickens, 330,000 pigs and 166,000 cattle are dead on arrival, or soon after, at abattoirs in the US every year, analysis of publicly available data shows. A further 800,000 pigs are calculated to be unable to walk on arrival. The main causes were likely to be heat stress, especially during the summer months, and freezing temperatures and trauma.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/more-than-20-million-farm-animals-die-on-way-to-abattoir-in-us-every-yearhttps://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61799718
Vets say don’t buy bulldog type breed dogs for pets
Representatives Barbara Lee (D-California) and Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin) introduced a bill that would cut $100 billion from the defense budget
Progressive Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Slash $100 Billion From Pentagon Budget
We shall see if such a call receives presidential approval or Democratic Party support.
I very much doubt it
Another programme for a select few.
https://news.trust.org/item/20220609161124-tq51g/
650 Black women set to get cash transfers with no conditions on how the money is spent under a program organized by GiveDirectly and the Georgia Resilience and Opportunity (GRO) Fund, two nonprofit groups. Organizers say it is the largest ever guaranteed income initiative in the U.S. South, aiming to help Black women who suffer entrenched economic inequality as a result of systemic gender and racial barriers to wealth.
ALB has already pointed out that compared with some political figures the Pope presents a more balanced opinion on the cause of the invasion. Here again he reiterates the view the Russians were probably provoked.
Is it coincidental that Sanders just had a debate on FOX?
After being criticized by Graham for being a “socialist”, Sanders leaned into the political philosophy and offered an ardent defense.
“Do you think raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is socialistic? Do you think doing what every major country does – guaranteeing healthcare to all people – is socialistic? Do you think expanding Medicare to cover dental care is socialistic?” Sanders said.
Bernie Sanders absolutely obliterating Lindsey Graham in this debate opener https://t.co/K0N1JrfFV3
— Mac (@GoodPoliticGuy) June 13, 2022
Business more or less as usual
Russia earned nearly $100bn (£82.3bn) from oil and gas exports during the first 100 days of the war in Ukraine, according to a report.
Revenues have been falling since March, as many countries shunned Russian supplies, but remain high, the independent Centre For Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) found.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday refused to endorse Joe Biden for another run at the White House, adding to growing anxiety in Democratic circles over the president’s ability to run in and win the 2024 election.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/12/aoc-biden-2024-election-democrats-anxiety
Another British “hero” dies “for” Ukraine.
When will the media begin to ask what motivates any person to seek out a war to participate in, to seek out another human being to kill or maim?
Wolff on anti-inflation policies
There Are Better Ways for Societies to Address Inflation Than by Hiking Interest Rates
“…The solution to that inherent contradiction of capitalism is surely not an endless series of oscillations between private and public control. That is what has failed in the capitalist system. Rather, the alternative solution that beckons is system change, putting all the workers in democratic control of the enterprises (instead of a tiny separate class of employers). A system based on a democratized workplace community interdependent with a democratized residential community offers a much better way to prevent and not merely “manage” inflations and recessions.”
Mykhaylo Podolyak, a senior Ukrainian presidential aide has told the BBC that between 100 and 200 Ukrainian troops are being killed on the front line every day.
Ukraine’s Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said Ukraine was losing 100 soldiers a day, and 500 more were injured.
Chomsky defends himself against his critics
Another article that comes to his defence
https://www.dw.com/en/why-do-humans-eat-so-much-meat/a-60735141
“Those theories originated 50, 60 years ago, when people were under the mistaken impression that meat was somehow more nutritious than plant foods. That was a grotesquely false misconception that people used to have, that there are only certain amino acids that you could get from animal tissue. That is flatly not true,”
