The "free-range" label on the egg carton at your grocery store has no requirement that the chickens ever go outside.
The Animal Welfare Institute has found that the USDA does not actually inspect facilities to verify outdoor access claims.
What this winds up looking line in practice is a barn with 20,000 to 30,000 birds and a single small door leading to a fenced concrete or gravel patch.
Most of the chickens never see the door, and the ones that find it step into a space that may be a few square feet per bird, often with no grass and no shade.
The label that actually means something is "Certified Humane Pasture-Raised" or "Animal Welfare Approved."
Certified Humane requires 108 square feet of outdoor pasture per hen, with at least 6 hours of outdoor access daily.
Animal Welfare Approved requires continuous access to living vegetation. The eggs from those programs cost more, but they're the only ones where the bird on the box is actually living something like a chicken's life.
"Free-range" and "cage-free" are marketing terms and not much more.
The body cam footage has been released. Very few things have made me this angry.
Yet there will likely be no riots and no March through the streets. People will go about their lives and politicians won’t say a word.
All because White lives don’t matter
SHOCKING details read out by father Mark Nowak regarding the murder of his son Henry.
- As blood filled his chest, Henry Nowak tried desperately to escape. Instead, he was chased and subjected to further abuse.
- When police arrived, Henry was lying on the ground, unable to sit up and clearly suffering severe medical distress.
- With his final words, he told officers nine times that he could not breathe.
- He also repeatedly told them that he had been stabbed four times.
- One officer responded: “I don’t think you have, mate.”
- Police later claimed they had been misled by the murderer.
- Henry’s father, Mark Nowak, believes the truth is far simpler.
- Both Henry and a member of the public who called 999 told police that Henry had been stabbed.
- Despite these warnings, officers failed to believe them.
- Henry was dragged across gravel and placed in handcuffs.
- Police arrested Henry for assault and read him his rights. According to his father, those were the last words Henry heard before he died.
- Mark Nowak says his son was denied even the dignity of a proper death.
- Henry should never have died on the streets of Southampton while in police custody.
- Meanwhile, his killer, Vikram Digwa, was afforded a level of decency that Henry was not. Reports suggest he was not even handcuffed when arrested.
- Officers reportedly took Digwa to the kitchen and allowed him to choose his own food.
Remember that 19 Yazidi girls were burned alive in iron cages by ISIS for refusing to convert to Islam and become sex slaves.
ISIS paraded them through the streets of Mosul, then burned them in front of hundreds of people.
Not a single Muslim or Palestinian activist protested for the Yazidis!
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Need a fence? What you really need is a deadhedge.
It's a barrier made of dead branches stacked between two rows of posts. You feed it with branches, fallen limbs, and woody yard debris. Over a season it becomes denser than most commercial fencing. Over years, the bottom layers compost down and the top gets refilled with whatever you trim that week.
Wrens, robins, and ground-foraging birds nest in the structure. Hedgehogs, field mice, frogs, and toads shelter in the base. Solitary bees, ladybirds, and beetles overwinter in the cavities.
Germany has been planting deadhedges as wildlife corridors since the 1990s. The UK uses them for riverbank restoration.
A wood fence costs thousands of dollars and supports no wildlife. A deadhedge costs nothing, gets denser every year, and provides habitat for dozens of species you want in your yard anyway.
Rome 🇮🇹:
A Syrian immigrant thief gets caught red-handed.
When the Carabinieri arrive, he tries to escape, then suddenly turns and stabs an officer in the chest with a screwdriver. His colleague intervenes and shoots, killing the attacker.
Anywhere else in the world, this would be ruled self-defense and the officer would be praised. Not in Italy.
In Italy, the justice system sentenced the Officer to 3 years in prison and ordered him to pay compensation to the criminal’s family: €15,000 for each child and €5,000 for each sibling.
It’s a nauseating disgrace.
@hostis_black Recovering kindle addict here... Now I only buy used physical books. We have a local used book store (Gottwals) and there's also Abe Books online. Never an ebook again for me. Same with movies - used DVDs are dirt cheap.
I lost the election but we started a revolution. Keep the flame of LIBERTY burning my friends! I will continue to put People and Principles before Party. America First! 🇺🇸
I did not see this coming, but my election has become an inflection point for our whole country. Today we make history.
Will you be part of this historic day by voting, calling friends who can vote, posting to social media, or making a donation?
Spread the word fellow patriots!