Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Mother's Day (with Chickens)

You’ll be happy to know that this post arrives before Mother’s Day. How your mother will feel about this listing at Amazon I don’t know. (“Thank you for the soap. So you think I’m dirty?”)





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But at least that listing wasn’t a candidate for “Mistake of the Day.”




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And then there’s weird: what joins these together?





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There’s a question of authenticity here:





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And now a visit to the chicken coop:


In North Carolina you can get Alpaca Chicken.


But roosters are in for a hard time of it:


Korean Air Bans Roosters on U.S.

Flights to the Philippines


Then again, it’s nice to know that chickens aren’t 

carnivorous. 





Nice to learn that the welfare of chickens is being looked 

after . . .




. . . that is, before they are slaughtered.


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Perhaps you prefer fish: Swedish researchers gave 

salmon cocaine.*


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That’s it for now. I hope you haven’t lost your appetite.


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