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Roundup of Tidbits

The USDA is paying dead farmers $1.1 billion!

For 1999 through 2005, USDA paid $1.1 billion in farm payments in the names of 172,801 deceased individuals (either as an individual recipient or as a member of an entity). Of this total, 40 percent went to those who had been dead for 3 or more years, and 19 percent to those dead for 7 or more years.
The Farm Bill is up for House vote today. It will reach the Senate in September.
This is just strange. And funny. Airport security seized a “dense clay-like substance” - a block of cheese!
This makes me embarassed to live in California. Obesity is in a never-ending downward spiral.
Another nutritious bar reaching the market. Vegan, organic, and raw! No wonder it’s named he Raw Organic Food Bar.
Killer whales are the most poluted European arctic mammal. Just more proof that the animal rights movement and the environmental sustainability movement are interconnected beyond belief.

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