These claim to be photos of spiderwebs made by spiders under the influence of different substances. Apparently they apply some amount of substance to a fly before they feed it to the spider. They don’t say what quantities were used…and I’m not entirely certain I believe it’s real. But…i think it WOULD be a really cool experiment none the less.

A busy little bird is he…It’s a war of perception here. What can we make people perceive? There are people out there who are bought and sold to be dedicated agents of misinformation. One of these persons is Alex Avery. Alex Avery is an iconic voice for large milk industry. He is the Director of Research and Education at the Center for Global Food Issues, a project of the Hudson Institute.

He also runs the propaganda outlet…milkismilk.com. Dedicated to ensuring the Dairy AggroIndustry can sell shitty-quality milk to consumers for many years to come.
Via the ‘Simple Truth‘…milkismilk.com is disguised a consumer awareness / health awareness and information blog. It takes a very heroic stance to saving you(the consumer!) from making ‘harmful choices’.

It’s part of a FUD disinformation campaign supporting the recent legistration the CGFI has taken up against Milk Producers that openly tell their consumers they don’t use rBGH on their cows. By openly disclosing this, apparently they’re practicing false and misleading marketing practicing. Obviously Industrialus Milkus en large can’t have people going around and insinuating that their animal practices are anything less then divine. What are they going to do about it? Well, they’re going to FIX the problem of course. The problem is people are starting to have this idea that their storebought milk was produced in a less reasonable fashion. And once these people start to have that perception…well they start looking for their milk in other sources(commonly soy/rice, organic, or non-rBGH advertised milks). Quite a few more(I’m proud of you America) have discovered real raw milk. And the demand for it is blowing out of the water. Just in the last year in Montana, I’ve seen prices in the raw milk underground shoot from less then $3 a gallon to $7 or $10. That’s simply because everybody wants it, and not many are willing to distribute it. And when they do, they do in seceret. You don’t tell people who you get your raw milk from. It’s a big no no. Anyway…here is an excerpt from milkismilk.com.

Did you know that “milk is milk?”
The Center for Global Food Issues (CGFI) is part of a broad-based coalition which has filed state and federal complaints about false and misleading marketing practices in the dairy industry. As a result, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has announced it will be review claims being made and take action against those engaged in misleading marketing practices. Taking these concerns to the marketplace, CGFI has recently launched a grass roots campaign of concerned consumers, principally mothers, to educate food and dairy retailers (supermarket and grocery chains) regarding false and misleading label and marketing practices.

Why the Dairy Industry?
Milk and dairy products are an essential part of a healthy, well-balanced diet, particularly for children. In addition, family dairy farms are an important part of the American farm economy. Yet, certain misleading marketing practices by some in the dairy industry designed to increase sales of niche products are creating false fears and driving people away from affordable, nutritious dairy products. These marketers publicly admit to specifically targeting women and the children for whom they purchase food with their campaigns. In the process, state and federal regulations and guidelines specifically established to prevent these practices are being ignored.

These practices result in harm to family dairy farm economics; they defraud consumers; and, in some cases they promote production practices which harm the environment. CGFI and a growing coalition of concerned consumers are working with responsible retailers throughout North America to pressure those in the dairy industry engaging in false or misleading dairy marketing to stop.

What is Happening?
Well-published research shows that health and safety fears are a leading factor in driving consumer food purchase choices. This is particularly true for mothers who purchase products they believe to be better for their family’s health and well-being. (At CGFI we understand that single people, non-moms, and many dads also purchase milk!). In the case of milk, labels that claim to be “pesticide-free,” “antibiotic-free” or “hormone-free” are misleading and in most cases simply false. All milk, for example, has hormones (over 25 different hormones are naturally found in milk), whether a cow received supplements to increase milk production or not.

I love the part that says….
“At CGFI we understand that single people, non-moms, and many dads also purchase milk!”
lol! if that isn’t buddy nudging i don’t know what is. This is just fucking ridiculous! Do they actually expect people to believe this trash? They DO. AND worse…it works. It works EXCEEDINGLY well. I suppose at the root of things these must just be Monsanto funds trickling down the line. I wonder how far extends their reach?

Alex Avery. You must be the fool at the end of the chain who gets to plaster his name all over the corporate cumstain. You know if they ever have to become agile, they’re just going to cut you off and shove all the dirt downhill.

We aren’t done yet with you Alex.

here’s to summertime!

Sandor from wildfermentation.com sent out this invitation yesterday. It’s a web-broadcast 2 day live demo of mad fermenting! here is his letter….

Hello friends,

I m venturing into new media as part of my effort to scale back
traveling while continuing to spread fermentation fervor.

On June 7 and 8, I will be teaching an intensive 2-day webinar, to
be broadcast live over the internet from 10AM-4PM (Pacific daylight
time) both days. We will be making kraut, miso, tempeh, natto, kefir,
amazake, mead, fish sauce, sourdough, porridge, and idli. Internet
viewers will be able to email questions, and participants will
receive an edited DVD recording of the workshop. The cost of the
workshop is $60. For further information and registration, visit
http://www.academyofspirit.com/sandor.html
.

Also look for me starting in June on You Tube. By the time I send out
my summer workshop schedule in a few weeks, I hope to have some videos
posted and links to send.

That s all for now. I hear the garden calling&

Sandor

This is going to be awesome. Sandor’s book also titled ‘Wild Fermentation’ is practically holy scripture in my home. I’ll be there Sandor, thanks for bubbling my way =)

J

yes, me. I just want lots of monies. No moar bloggins’. I’m at Mom’s house until Saturday. We’re going to go pick up grandma and grandpa soon too. Nate and I have been having a good time. We’ve played hackeysack, baseball, and diablo 2 for the last few days. And mom let him stay home from school a bit too. Morgan’s been really busy working on this dance show she’s in. I got to see some of it last night. It was pretty fantastic. I am so proud to think she’s my little sister. I’ve been helping mother make lots of good food. We started a batch of kimchi, some banana honey raw milk kefir, some bubbly honey ferment, and some sunflower sprouts.

Nate and I were down in the basement and it was dark…and we had found this scythe. I was wearing my black hoody with a dark black hood. And so Gorgi comes sauntering down the stairs…he is their little white Doggie…pretty cute, and he still has his balls. Actually he’s a father of an entire litter of puppies that we know of. Well..Gorgi took one look at me and let out a noise kind of like a toilet choking. So I brandished the scythe menacingly and ran at him…he backpeddled over himself and turned around, and just plain bulletted up the staircase, across the room.

Okay. I don’t want money. I miss you Mariah! I just recharged the batteries on my camera, and went looking through the photos. There is a giant stone mushroom I found out in the forest. It’s at least 15 tall, and wow!

We brought Gma and Gpa back home, they get to sleep in Mom’s bed, Mom and Mike are sleeping in Nate’s bed, and I’m sleeping on the futon. Nate’s sleeping on the floor.

Gorgi pee’d all over the couch when i scared him and he wouldn’t come near me all night, but then I gave him a cookie and he’s all smiles.

I went in and stole the Mouse from Nate’s laptop so i dunt have to use the touch pad. And I gave Morgan a kiss as she slept.

I once forsake computers…lasted around a year and half. I was a lot happier, I smoked a lot more pot. You know who you are Kierstin Kohn! But overall it was a good thing. Now that I’m back and plugged in, I grip the little pixelus digitus with a vengeance! I can spend a LOT of time on the computer. Between work and home life, it’s probably at least 12 hours a day. Like damn. I hope no one finds out! :P

When I was a kid and living at home, I’d sneak up at night to play on the computer. For seventh and eighth grade, I would get up at 4:30am every morning to logon to everquest for a few hours before school. I loved it, I was at once having to be extremely sneaky and quiet, rebelling against my parent’s rules, and escaping this world into something liquid and magical.

It’s less rewarding these days…i can has distraktshunz…? But here I am. Lonely or not. Shiverpeg. I would go mad without the computer, all things aside, and I’ll go crazy with it anyway. So i realized that Morgan listens to some of the same hiphop that Robyn and I roll with in the car. She’s turning 13 this year. She must just be much cooler then I was. I didn’t even know what music was until I was probably 15 at least.

fish! i just feel weak.tired. I shouldn’t share that with people. I found Rachael Perrell online. I haven’t seen her in my dreams in years. There was a terribly violent and disturbing(yet spirited and empowering) one the other night that prompted me to go look for her again. Low and behold…facebook. Ahhhha! She was part of some highly organized underground movement to knock off a large economic hub for some entire region of future world. They all knew they were going to die in the process, and cause the deaths of many many many more people. And they did. They’re entire lives build up to that point, and then they were gone. But not without leaving a mark. I remembered them.

here’s something funny…i don’t feel intimidated by very intelligent people, even very intelligent people with lots of degrees. I work with them all day long, they’re just people. Yet, when you have a very intelligent girl, a college degree, and some level of personal attraction…whack. I feel intimidated. I liked Rachael as a middle school boy, and even though I’ve never talked to her until now some 10 odd years later, she does crop up in my dreams now and again, always in very lucid, very powerful ones, So i’ve had a aegis crush on dreamworld Rachael for some years…and now talking to her even over facebook, i don’t know what to say. i just want to talk to her.

i don’t ever feel intimidated with Marta though, maybe i know already she values me for me. When Marta got her degree it was kind of exciting, almost like I got one myself!

a fishing WILD movie scooter showed me when i slept on his couch. Equilibrium. What a bad mindtrip. I have to show dad. I-N-T-E-N-S-E! oh here’s something I should have spoken about yet i kept my mouth closed…

I’m going to speak directly to you Scott, because you are reading this right *now*, hah! You don’t trust me in the tiniest bit if I smoke pot. why the fish? Are you afraid it’s not me there behind that face? Are you awkward because you feel like you’re invading my space? Is it an acceptance thing, like by speaking honest to me you’d be accepting everything that has went into my body lately? WHYYYYY? Is it just purely the Pot? You just don’t like it that much? I’m confused…maybe if I was one of those talkative social stoners…you get them high and everybody thinks they’re the kitten’s cake, *Tyler Morgan* /cough. I’m not. I’m just quiet, and I like to cuddle up with a puppy or a nice girl. But the movie was definitely bomb.

well, there are times when i don’t like pot too i suppose. but really though, it sure is a nice way to mellow down your evening. i always have so many damned things racing through my head like a bunch of nubile teenage easter bunnies…they never actually get anything done, but they always WANT too. And if I want to chill out and watch a movie per say…it’s so much easier for me to get into it if i’m a bit stoned. maybe one might say that I shouldn’t be watching movies if thats the case, and i think that could be valid.

anyway, it’s not so important. i’m sorry i bring it into your life =( i really liked hanging out with you. Hannah seems to be doing very well, she definitely has a good head on her shoulders. Kelsey has probably been through a lot in the last year or so. I’m sure it’s been hard on her. You should make a trip up to montana during the summer. Just let me know as you start to plan =)

Robert looked like a nice guy, i approve as long as you don’t let him do you up the butt ! haha…say hi to Jesse for me, and bye to uncle Kenny. We’ll catch up later Scooter, goodnight. btw if you or you or YOU is reading this…and you want to say something. by all means, tell me i’m full of shazbot if thats wuts crankin yo cap!

okay 12:33 am, t-4 to oblivion!