Episode 7: Introducing Marla Darling
Our special guest, Marla Darling, the author of the Feminist Housewife discusses birth control, the proper role of women in society, and urinating on your lover.
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Bonus Content:
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why by Jonny Bowden as suggested by JT.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan as suggested by Tangent
Hate reading? Watch Michael Pollan lecture at the University of California instead:
And in the interest of fairness, here is a rebuttal from the beef lobby:
Myth:
Amount of water needed to produce 1 pound of wheat: 25 gallons.
Amount of water needed to produce 1 pound of beef: 2,500 gallons.According to statistics compiled by the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Kansas State University, the yield of wheat from irrigated land averages about 3 bushels per acre inch of water (27,168 gallons). So it actually takes 151 gallons of water to produce one pound of wheat – six times more than the amount this claim suggests.
Considering all factors in beef cattle production including direct consumption, irrigation of pastures and crops, and carcass processing, it takes 435 gallons of water to produce a pound of boneless beef, according to the CAST 1999 Animal Agriculture and Global Food Supply Report.
Also, according to this chicken farmer named Robert Plamondon:
Is it true that a lot of “free-range” eggs are from birds that are really being raised in confinement?
Yep, it’s true, all right. All the “official” free-range systems that I’ve come across are scams, at least by my standards. This includes both the totally unconvincing U.S. free-range egg producers, and the “Let’s give our scam a governmental seal of approval” EU system.
My test for a free-range system being “real” goes like this: If you move all the feeders and waterers outside, do any chickens die of hunger or thirst? Obviously, in a true free-range system, where all the chickens wander in and out of the building all day, it doesn’t really matter if the feeders and waterers are indoor or outdoors. They’ll be fine either way.
But in fake free range, the goal is to run a factory-farm operation while getting a price premium for the “free-range” label. The best way of doing this is to discourage the chickens from going outside, through the use of doors that are too few or too small, and by other methods. If only a handful of chickens actually go outside, you’ve really got a confinement operation, and can run it like any other factory farm. But if most of the chickens never go outside, if you moved the feeders and waterers outdoors, many of the chickens would die.
Here’s how you do this: Chickens can recognize about 100 other chickens, and hang out with the ones they know. If they have to go past a lot of strangers to get outside, they won’t go outside. So all it takes is a long walk past other chickens, and they’ll never even try to go out the door. Given the immense size of modern chicken houses, this problem is almost insurmountable. You have to use more and smaller houses if you want to do it right. This, plus the other sources of increased labor in real free range, makes real free-range eggs very expensive to produce. I guess consumers prefer scam eggs to the more expensive real ones.
The same situation is true to an even larger degree with free-range broilers, since meat birds have been bred for lethargy, and are less willing to trek long distances to reach an outside door.
Want some more data on the effectiveness of the withdrawal method? Check this shit out.
If you want more info on golden showers, you’ll just have to Google that shit for yourself.
Aaron, Eric, Marla Darling, Offona Tangent, The Podcast, Theresa, Zaphod Tralfamadore
