Links of the day

Some news here are last weeks, but are valid anyway....

another food horror story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7317239
A California meatpacker accused of animal cruelty is making the largest U.S. meat recall on record -- 143 million lbs (65 million kilos), the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Sunday. Most of the meat, raw and frozen beef products, probably has already been consumed...
and two vids with footage of what was going on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5FUaK3FOM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTZTCNnrUNY
nice uh... just stop for a minute and think that this can't be an isolated case but just a normal consequence of how the meat industry works, i mean, already the way the live can be considered as a torture. and we pay this bastards for this, so we are all responsible...

Government apathy sabotages Britain's shift to a low-carbon economy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/18/energy.economy

Oil firms' output is down, yet profits skyrocket. It all points to the crisis predicted by the peakists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2252581,00.html

Tesco hits new lows with the £2 chicken

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/tesco-hits-a-new-low-with-arrival-of-the-163199-chicken-778672.html

wow, yeah, the 2pound chicken, isn't it great to have cheap food! check this out then:

and part two:





A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-garbage-tip-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html