It’s interesting that the cattle and poultry industries choose to play so innocent when things like BSE and Bird Flu hit. With their practices of loading up their animals with antibiotics and other fattening drugs, their factory-farms that create the worst of conditions for an animal to exist, and their obsession with cutting costs and corners in order to make for profit… why are they surprised? It is a basic formula. There should be more bird-flus, and of you notice, more and more.. we are seeing these types of mass sicknesses in response to the mass industry irresponsibility.
Monthly Archives: January 2004
Primaries and Caucuses
Add it to the pile of evidence proving what a poor quality democracy the US has… the Iowa caucuses and the forthcoming primaries. So let’s see… Gephart loses Iowa… a farm state with a population of very few, and he pulls out of the race. So now when primaries come around to California or South Carolina.. those people can no longer choose that candidate… they lose the right to vote for the rep. of their choice.
Furthermore does anyone know what happens in a caucus? Its not going in and voting.. you walk into a room and you debate with other delagates/party members about who you choose. As was appropriately mentioned on WUSB’s Off The Wall radio show , this makes it highly unlikely someone who likes Al Sharpton will walk into an Iowa caucus and shout.. “I love reverand Al!” They might fear getting their butt kicked, so they choose the more popular candidates. Once again, this isn’t democracy, it’s some sort of cabal to intimadate you and keep people out.
What does it all mean? Just a reminder of how horrible the electoral system is. In case the selection of GWB wasn’t proof enough.