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"Our clocks are ticking at a different pace. We're closer than the United States. We're more vulnerable. And therefore, we'll have to address this question of how to stop Iran, perhaps before the United States does," the Israeli prime minister said.Netanyahu also said Iran is edging up to what he called a red line.
Five states have introduced seven different "Ag-Gag bills" to silence people who try to expose CAFO practices.
Remember our exposé on the factory farms, and the legislation designed to keep the public in the dark about them? They're back! It's not just that these bills trample the First Amendment. It's that these bills are designed to keep the filthy, profoundly unsanitary conditions at factory farms - CAFOs, or Confined Animal Feeding Operations - from being exposed to the public. CAFOs are the antithesis of safe and nutritious food. If governments, both federal and state, were truly serious about food safety, they would address the miserable CAFO conditions.
CAFOs are responsible for foodborne illnesses such as salmonella and listeria; are notorious for their use of antibiotics for nontherapeutic uses, and for exacerbating the "superbug" problem in which organisms become increasingly resistant to antibiotics; and ruin rural economies. In addition, there is the inhumane treatment of the animals themselves.
Ag-Gag laws prevent consumers from being informed, and therefore consumers ability to fully choose what they eat.
Comment: In short, Thor's vast circle of contacts told him what to write because he himself is basically a government agent. This is another nail in the coffin of the notion that 'the NSA leaks' caught the global surveillance superstate with its pants down.