Friday, October 13, 2023

Banned Books - A History; Irish Good-Byes; Frankenfish Invade Indiana

 A Brief History of Banned Books in America: Attempts to restrict what kids in school can read are on the rise. But American book-banning started with the Puritans, 140 years before the United States

Pushback continues against genetically modified salmon being raised at Indiana farm 

AquaBounty raises its faster-growing salmon at an indoor aquaculture farm in Albany, located in Delaware County. The fish are genetically modified to grow twice as fast as wild salmon, reaching market size — 8 to 12 pounds — in 18 months rather than 36.

The FDA approved the AquAdvantage Salmon as “safe and effective” in 2015. It was the only genetically modified animal approved for human consumption until federal regulators approved a genetically modified pig for food and medical products in December 2020.

In 2018, the federal agency greenlit AquaBounty’s sprawling Indiana facility, which as of last December was raising roughly 492 metric tons of salmon from eggs imported from Canada but is capable of raising more than twice that amount. The company is currently making improvements to its Indiana production facility. Once completed, salmon harvests are expected to increase.

A history of Ireland in 100 goodbyes (just the ones I really like)

34 Such is life

38 They lived and loved and laughed and left

41 I got more than one bullet I think. Tons and tons of love dearie to you and the boys and to Nell and Anna. It was a good fight anyway.

42 Yerra, they’ll never shoot me in my own county

64 I have done my best to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be again

97 Go in peace, to love and serve the Lord

98 Don’t let the door hit you on the way out
 

sch 10/12

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