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Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for December 10, 2012
December 09, 2012
December 11, 2012
Transcript:
bixby: Aren't you corpor'l crisp? Man: Yeah, and I need a new cereal to promote. I know everything about the stuff! bixby: yeah,but your last cereal tanked!! Man: That wasn't my fault! It was a health issue! bixby: how did they get E. coli into a breakfast cereal, anyway? man: Ehh, something about the slaughterhouse where the packaged it. I don't know....
Actually, it’s not too uncommon these days. Farm animals are raised in such high concentrations that they only affordable way to get rid of their waste is to spray it on crops. Oddly enough, the misting method for disposing of animal waste tends to cause the occasional problem, such as e-coli contamination, effluent trespass onto nearby properties (for example, a sheen of s*** on farmers’ laundry), water pollution, massive fish kills, etc., etc. C’est la vie – there’s money to be made.