Obama's EPA to the rescue

[deepdistraction]

This is as good a time as any to begin journaling about my activist side. We think we have a minor win at the moment, and those are rare, so it feels good to tell about it.

One day I'll expand on the over-a-dozen years I've already spent working on these issues. But the latest episode is enough for now.

This spring the Iowa Senate passed a bill that

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[oniugnip]

Thank you :)

(maybe soon we'll have vats full of bacteria and stem cells that grow pre-fried bacon without generating manure or making any pigs suffer.)

[deepdistraction]

You're welcome! One of the first Robert A. Heinlein sci-fi books I read had vats like that, on huge spaceships that carried relocating populations from one planet to another, on years-long journeys. Residents were served sliced-off pieces of whatever was growing in the vats, for protein. (Appetizing, this wasn't.) But plants were also grown, on levels of the ship devoted to agriculture. Too bad Heinlein was such a creature of his time. Otherwise he would have realized that the plants would have sufficed to feed the ship.