Fish for Friday

You don't want to give up meat, but at least you are careful about the type you eat and the quality, right? Actually, as shown in the report "Horsemeat scandal exposes complex food chain," when you eat meat of any type you basically have no clue what it really is.
    If the possibility of pork bung (rectum) instead of calamari didn't get your attention [see the last fish on January 18], maybe the idea of eating meat from a former race horse will give you pause, especially since it may have been given all kinds of performance enhancing drugs during its racing career. No, unfortunately the drug residue will not help you run faster, but it may help you die quicker.

Some good news! Just when it seems we may as well give up on law enforcement due to incompetence and corruption, an officer turns in a heart-tugging performance: "Cop shuts down highway to save small dog, becomes Web hero." Includes video.

The now-ended standoff in Alabama, with a man who shot a school bus driver and took a child hostage in an underground bunker, underlines one of the most obvious yet overlooked ways of reducing gun violence—arrest people and take their guns away from them when they commit gun-related and other crimes, and get them into effective counseling. According to the article "Details emerge about man at center of Ala standoff," the Alabama abductor was arrested in 1995 for improper exhibition of a weapon (charges were later dismissed) and in 2000 for marijuana possession. Neighbors say that in recent years he beat a dog to death with a pipe (according to an NPR on-air report, the dog was arthritic and we assume therefore posed minimal risk), threatened to shoot children if they came onto his property, and patrolled his property at night with a flashlight and a firearm. Given his track record, there were plenty of warnings of potential disaster—so we are again left to wonder why innocent people were killed by someone that law enforcement and neighbors knew was a very obvious risk.

Jim Rix is proven right yet again! A British study, "Low Heart Disease Risk for Vegetarians," found that going meatless gives vegetarians a 32 percent lower risk of heart disease than non-vegetarians.

Jim Rix comments: I disagree with one point. I believe the percentage to be closer to 100%. The article loosely defines "vegetarian," allowing cheese-eaters to call themselves "vegetarians." True vegans are 100% immune. The term "vegetarian" really doesn't mean much. For example, a friend of mine has been calling herself a "vegetarian" for many years based solely on the fact that she doesn't eat red meat. But she does consume chicken, fish, eggs, and dairy. This "vegetarian" has a cholesterol level of 250 and deludes herself that heredity will save her from heart disease and other diet-related diseases. I hope so but I worry about her.
    I'm a literal person and take "vegetarian" to mean one who eats only (or mostly) vegetables. Because of the creative interpretation of the term "vegetarian," the term "vegan" had to be invented to identify those who eat little or no animal foods.
    I no longer identify myself as "vegan" or "vegetarian" but as an "omnivore" who chooses to eat an oil-free high-starch plant-based diet, with an occasional carnivorous feast thrown in. (Processed vegetable oils have their own health issues, not the least of which is that all oils are 100% fat.)

A nuclear reactor for everyman? "Are Mini-Reactors the Future of Nuclear Power?" The Model T of nuclear reactors—is it coming to a backyard near you? If so, good luck with that.

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Limerick of the Week:

When Popeye said "I yam what I yam,"
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