Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Racing Throttletwin Carburetors

Growing meat

In vitro meat

The news goes back to last April: the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), one of the most well-known international organizations for animal rights since this is bare actresses and models against fur, has a prize of one million dollars will go to those who fail first, by June 12 2012, to produce animal tissues in the laboratory of taste and texture indistinguishable from the chicken and which may be brought to market at a competitive price.
Although fillets and steaks are not essential to human nutrition, and even if you sell a certain amount of vegetarian more or less successful imitations of the flesh, there is a considerable number of people who, although not completely insensitive to the suffering animals, they can not give up steaks, scallops and beef shanks. So PETA has chosen pragmatically, to reach out to this carnivorous humanity no longer expect to redeem in the belief that allowing unrepentant eaters of pork chops, sausages and paillard to continue to satisfy their carnal desires, while avoiding the daily slaughter of cattle, pigs, chickens, turkeys, sheep, lamb and quail, not to mention fish and shellfish that end up on our tables every day, not a strategy "uncomfortable "uncomfortable, as expressed Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of the organization.
Despite the optimism of the Newkirk thought aroused by the deep concerns of many animals: in the same PETA reportedly would break out something like a "civil war". Indeed for many purists
animal rights initiative is seen as a resa morale, perché riduce o elimina le giustificazioni etiche (la sofferenza arrecata a esseri viventi) e ambientali (la smisurata impronta ecologica degli allevamenti) a favore del vegetarismo, rendendo il mangiare carne una decisione accettabile.
Le tecnologie attuali consentono di produrre al più un sottile strato di cellule, un “foglio” da cui si può a fatica, e a costi elevatissimi, ottenere una poltiglia adatta, forse, a fare salsicce e hamburger. Ma fra non molto sarà possibile irrorare il tessuto in coltura con vasi sanguigni di modo che anche le cellule che non vengono a contatto con il liquido nutriente potranno essere alimentate a dovere, permettendo così alla carne di aumentare adeguatamente di spessore. And you can also see that in the flesh there is a bit 'fat and bones to finally get a real steak. If you want even a Florentine simply stem from Chianina.
At that point, the process will be developed to make it economically viable, perhaps the most difficult aspect of the affair: now the cost of cultured meat is estimated at around $ 4 million per kg., Against a cost in industrialized countries, extremely low as it ever was in history, thanks to genetic selection, all'irrisorio cost of energy and transport, food supplements and "rationalization" of the plants: the suffering of animals in fact do not generate costs, as long as they do not die before slaughter. Can you imagine
mileage chicken breasts on conveyor belts that move toward the cutting el'impacchettamento? Would be very healthy, "because the meat substitutes are produced under controlled conditions impossible to maintain in traditional farms and this will be safer, more nutritious, less polluting and more humane than conventional meat" as stated on the website of the New Harvest ( http://www.new-harvest.org ), a company founded in 2004 with the aim of "supporting the development of meat substitutes, with the aim to long term to create economically competitive alternatives to conventional meat. "
fillets, future, certainly much healthier than those derived from chickens in battery cages crammed to capacity, obese and full of ulcers caused by the excrement in which they are forced to sit for weeks, dosed with antibiotics and kept awake to catch everything which has a straw color for all 35 days of their short existence and hallucinated. Fortunately, there is not much in those pale and tasteless slices and placed on a Styrofoam tray and wrapped in DOMOPACK, with a nice reassuring label to return the weight and price and expiration date and provenance, to remind us that once were part of a living being.
So why not consider producing organs, limbs, quarters ready for slaughter without victims? Bones and cuts and broken fragments will not give pain. And how will we feel guilty eating meat never born and therefore will never die even when ingested and digested? We also cultivate
leather tanning, as well, without guilt we might avoid giving up belts, shoes, jackets and wallets. We can get along with ermine skin rugs and mink or fox fur silver and clear. And what about pigs made of sun thighs? We could even think of making culture stem cells from ourselves. It would be cannibalism? And if we imagine to produce whole animals with no brain, so use what we need most?
In these fantasies the absence of the brain seems to be the ethical limit unsurpassed: we must give up their capuzzi with potatoes.
Who knows, maybe the destiny of man as a species is just to give nightmares to their materiality.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Which Is Better Visio Vs Sanyo

Landscape with tank

The massacre of March 3



The Truck Center, just over a large car wash is located in the Industrial Development of Molfetta, 400 hectares ten years ago were a sea of \u200b\u200bolive trees: one hundred thousand have been killed, uprooted and shipped to the North to decorate the gardens of the parking lots of malls and Brianza Triveneto, or torn to pieces in order to obtain parquet or just firewood. Dry stone walls, blades, towers and farms, was not spared nothing: the monastery of San Martino, which dates to the thirteenth century, has become an area of \u200b\u200bexposure to bidet faucets and cups. As urbanization progressed, the streets were just drawn regularly accumulated waste and inert materials that came from everywhere, attracted by the suspension of the rules in a that was no longer under the responsibility without the city was still not fully come under the jurisdiction of another agency, only to disappear under the weight of the machines schiacciapietre.
few days later, when the track had just cooled down on those streets still deserted and surrounded by nothing came the jockeys to ride horses, momentarily distracted the slaughter, in street racing. At the end
industrial settlements are reached, a seventy, many of whom paid as a result of relocation with the 488, and especially the Fashion District, the "City of fashion", with the second floors of buildings fake, with multiplex cinema and with squares of polystyrene, the new place di struscio per le nuove generazioni che disertano ormai quello che da cuore della città si avvia a diventare una melanconica periferia senza centro. Domenica scorsa, due giorni prima della tragedia, alla presenza del vescovo che benedicendo auspicava anche lì, per ricordare la comune matrice cristiana, la creazione di un piccolo luogo di preghiera, del sindaco-senatore (centro-destra) e dell’assessore regionale (centro-sinistra), è stata inaugurata anche la Mongolfiera, centro commerciale con la “saracinesca più grande d’Europa” e una galleria di 110 negozi. Oggi, con un laconico comunicato, i Carabinieri hanno fatto sapere che in un capannone non troppo lontano sono state ritrovate, insieme a cinque Porsche rubate da un autosalone di una città vicina, migliaia di ogive e inneschi per confezionare munizioni.

Qualche giorno fa Bertinotti ha detto che «Non si può stare al tempo stesso con i lavoratori e con gli imprenditori». Ha segnato il territorio, l’ex presidente della Camera: da una parte chi vede che le disuguaglianze sono catene pesanti, dall’altra chi racconta di ascensori sociali da rimettere in moto e capaci di far apparire possibile per tutti una vita migliore. Da una parte chi del sogno salvifico della società senza classi si sente derubato da chi, dall’altra parte, racconta che la storia è già finita in una melassa interclassista affollata da immaginari padroni di se stessi. Bertinotti, ha dichiarato guerra all’illusione di una società che fluida è solo nel suo apparire, solo perché capace di nascondere i fatti sotto una coltre di narrazioni frammentate, solo perché capace di confondere e sparigliare i nomi delle cose in modo da far scambiare la mutevolezza e provvisorietà delle differenze con la loro scomparsa.
Ma qui, a Molfetta da dove scrivo, i cinque morti del 3 marzo raccontano di una società in cui è sempre più difficile rintracciare con nettezza il confine fra lo sfruttato e lo sfruttatore, dove è sempre più difficile distinguere il libero professionista o il padroncino dal precario, il terzista dal cottimista, l’incertezza subita dalla flessibilità goduta. Raccontano, quei corpi ammucchiati nella cisterna, di una realtà in cui è sempre più arduo porre un individuo, nella sua totalità sempre più imprecisa, multiforme e frammentata, di qui o di là dalla linea che divide gli oppressi dagli oppressori. Qui non è stato come alla Thyssen-Krupps dove da una parte li vedevi bene i padroni in giacca e cravatta e dall’altra gli operai in tuta nell’inferno dei laminatoi; qui i solchi, i confini passano attraverso le anime e i corpi di persone che, come tutti noi, di volta in volta si trovano a essere vittime e carnefici: qui le responsabilità non sono rintracciabili in ruoli precisi e in incurie certe.
È, piuttosto, tutto il sistema di produzione che esternalizzando le mansioni per tagliare i costi, shatters the responsibilities in a flimsy dust: the entire system of regulations that all too often fall on those who can not support him because he is a weak link and blackmail, sandwiched between those who impose the price of labor and the bank does not credit .

lavage were experts, it was said, was not the first time you wash tanks which had carried potentially dangerous substances. Perhaps doing a job which they had underestimated the risk, were found to be a cog in a machine probably unaware that tends to get rid of the recycling costs and securing the danger dispersing, pouring wherever it happens. What purpose would that poison if circumstances had not taken a turn so tragic? What happened to the contents of other tanks? I want to be reassured, I wish someone would tell me that they are not finished, running into the ground, into the sea just a few hundred meters where the summer I go for a swim.

For next summer, near the Outlet, it is expected the inauguration of "Land of the Giants' theme park.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Hard Blisters On Feet

" man's land "

(which speaks of the gardens below the house)


soon after entering the die is an avenue of waste and aims more decisively towards the west, right over the area of \u200b\u200bgames, looking for a center, false than that which was the original layout of the square, where, surrounded by curved benches from the back side by side in sufficient number to close the circle, was planted a thin shell that will probably be many years a tree can give shade to those who want, on the bench, sit down.
Later, a recess in the enclosure is home to mighty stone products and cement, steel and wood that were intended to hide the rubbish bins, but end up instead in order to highlight the presence blatantly remember, even it were a monument to modernity consumer, that everything we buy, sooner or later there will will end.
is not particularly bad or good that this new garden is to take the place of another garden, or too ugly or beautiful, but in my eyes at least had the merit of being there since I was memory: this new, with the usual benches purchased in the catalog, with the usual street lights inexplicably excessive in number, with the usual lawn survived on little land tiles and concrete, with multi-colored wooden toys are seen as equal by now Canicattì Brescia, is just what you'd expect to find under home once exceeded that prohibit signs to play ball and bring dogs and bicycles and do all that we imagine to want to make a green space. It is, in short, the garden district that taught us to imagine giving us playmobil dolls as children: that things should go in a certain way, it is good to learn from children.

"Garden" is derived from a word of Germanic origin, as the corresponding Greek word paradeisos which in turn descends from a Persian word, means a place enclosed, indeed, "the" place par excellence enclosed space, where as in a hatchery, or a vase, or in the womb, what is really Man is born and is protected with what nature is benevolent to man and then planted.
"Garden" is, therefore, the "land men" in opposition to what is hostile and incomprehensible. Later the place
walled closed, the area where they wanted to exclude all that part of the phenomenal world, which could induce anxiety or unpleasantness in its visitors, has become a place of delight for a few more to interdict, and then start from late eighteenth century, to be open to all: the "public garden", a real oxymoron, owes its existence to the Enlightenment and the Revolution that made a common good that which was previously reserved for the clergy and nobility.
The garden will suffer in those years the same process of worldliness which will subject the art at that time, and permanently, separates his camp from that of religious celebrations. From then on there will be "art" as a place of experimentation and "sacred art" as a place for a canonical representation gradually slip into kitsch, while the garden to be "exciting machine," a place of enchantment and meeting with the ineffable, become a rational place dedicated to the recreation of healthy bodies.
Today we use the same word to denote spaces in the vicinity of trees stations and those who walked the terraces Semiramis of Babylon, and we will have no difficulty in calling the "garden" open areas, sometimes dangerous and should be avoided as they are frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers. Homonymy
This is the scar of a landslide of the soul is no longer nature but to seem dark and dangerous feel, if anything, that is more in the nature to need to be defended by the dark impulses of man (the park, In this sense, is exactly the opposite of the garden). The whole world is now "ground man" and do not need fences to keep out threats, "external" and to prevent those "internal" coming from vandals and thugs: the treatment is the same defense that we must make efforts to preserve any public property. The garden is thus reduced to street furniture, which is celebrated in space that is the equality between a bench and a fence, a lamppost and a tree, a lawn and a sidewalk.
And so while all around the first barrel to blow up New Year's Day looming, a short, rubbish bins and public drinking fountains, I'm here at square Giovene, which concerns me a bit 'surprised that this new space is the old one as is a fitted kitchen to the dining room of my grandmother with the furniture in the tradition of trying to engage some of the local Liberty hints learned by browsing catalogs and Paris where we crowded in many, but just so many, that seemed to be their "home".

Friday, February 8, 2008

Chicken Pox Blood Stool

The Post-consumer plastic and eternity

The island of desires consumed





The largest landfill in the world, told Tuesday, February 5 's Independent was discovered dall'oceanografo American Charles Moore and consists of two floating islands connected to each other, both large as the United States is often up to ten meters, bordering the North Pacific currents in a stretch of sea between Hawaii and Japan: a death trap for all forms of life that has the misfortune of running into the endless wave of dirt and slurry on the water.
This soup translucent ", according to oceanographer, waste would receive about 100 million tonnes. It is not that much later: it is an amount far less than that in 2007 alone, including municipal and industrial waste, we have produced in Italy (by the way, is not strange that the waste will talk about "production" without embarrassment or irony?), a real trifle compared to the one billion and 300 million tons of garbage produced in the EU during the same period, but is everything plastic, the rhythm of what we Italians last year we threw away, put together in three decades.
is plastic, in fact, that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is formed in greater part in all the imaginative ways in which our production-can fervor to decline: soccer balls and Lego bricks, kayaking and shopping bags, syringes, lighters and Barbie Laperonzola, dried and toothbrushes, chairs, dishes, cutlery and soldiers, aprons, boots, mattresses and inflatable dolls. All over the plastic at sea since it was invented fifty years ago, is still there, floating somewhere because, of all that mankind has been able to conceive in his long career as an apprentice sorcerer, the plastic is the closest thing to immortality.
And every substance or article which tells of the undying myths of men, plastic shares the fate has no soul because the soul, you know, have their own time and can not remain forever on this earth: the forms consume and degrade, the plastic did not form his or down from anything that has form. It is a matter pure and docile; can return to the touch feeling of leather, metal or glass, can be rigid or flexible, it can bounce and absorb shocks, it is malleable at will at any semblance able to fulfill all our desires, as an inflatable doll, in fact. In our imaginary
plastic has had ups and downs: she appeared as an icon of modernity in the '60s when, as brilliant and tangible revelation of a future lightweight, hygienic, durable and affordable for all, finally came to sweep away from life everyday household goods of the archaic worm-eaten wood, corroded metal and shards veined. The crisis of rejection, and a little 'also disgust, 70s triggered by its too rapid and indiscriminate spread, followed in the '80s, his tenacious survival of material indispensable. Finally, the new life of the '90s, when the wise marketing campaigns place in our imagination as the ultimate recyclable material, even capable, at the end of his life, to restore the energy used in energy plants to produce and forge them: the material perfect, able to live many lives before ending his life in a fire ritual and purification, which, as in the great fires of spring rituals, can still come and take food new life.
Now this island of discarded plastic that "wanders like an animal without a leash without anyone to take more care of her and that the return of form and soul that goes fashionable use of ephemeral burned at a time, this endless mass that can not degrade and finally, simply vanish, without the involvement of its creator that has imposed this unnatural immortality, this foreign matter in the life that knows how to mimic but not replicate, she takes leaning increasingly on the landscape of the men who contributed so much to create and maintain, thrown back what is done on Hawaiian and showing declining havens for aircraft, satellites, to the dismay of passengers passing ships in the form of a blob boundless, vomited to disturb the conscience.