Would you give up your fingerprints so you could get in and out of a gas station more quickly? Shell Oil thinks that you will. And so once again, it seems that Americans are ready to cash in their privacy for a little convenience. And once again, our society inches just a little closer to the world that George Orwell imagined in his novel 1984 – a world utterly without any privacy.
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Daily Dose – Fenced in
GOP candidate pledges to build border fence. Common sense from a member of the United States Congress? I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s true! Read on!
The Benefits of Green Tea and Free-Range Beef
It turns out that while our quest for a clean-burning gasoline substitute may be “saving the planet,” it could also be doing some damage to our food supply. Researchers at Kansas State University have discovered that cattle fed on distiller’s grain – a byproduct of the ethanol distillation process – have a greater prevalence of E. coli 0157 in their system.
The good news is, this type of E. coli doesn’t threaten the cattle. The bad news? This is exactly the kind of E. coli that’s a health risk to humans. (Of course, this whole problem could be completely avoided if cattle were fed grass like nature intended, but that’s another story…)
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Tags: ethanol food contamination, green tea
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