"I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,
forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily
with my disposition that this goodly frame, the
earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most
excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave
o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted
with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to
me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
you seem to say so." ~Hamlet

i can see green when i lay in my hammock and see the sky thru the trees and their leaves.
it's going to hit 78 here in the big D today...mild winter so far...I'm calling an early spring this year!

warning:

soylent ...pink?

  
I still love cheeseburgers.
but i guess I'm old fashioned....could always live with the old formula of the fda which did have a small allowance for, er, um, small percentage of cow by-products in ground beef...icky i know but it had been that way since before my parents were born...then came the rise in e-coli poisonings...real cause unknown, most likely due to an industrialisation of cows as products of mass consumption....much finger pointing on all sides, people dead, including children.
and so the gods of the fast food machine, when given the choice between insisting that meat vendors clean up their acts and stop treating living beings as commodities and perhaps spending a little bit more or going with a quick technological fix that in turn created new sub industries for meat that was previously unusable for even pet food purposes and making a quick buck in the process, well, obviously the health of the public comes first, right?
right?
hello?
it just goes to show, that with enough monosodium glutamate, apathy, secrecy, aluminium hydroxide, and ignorance, even dead cow can taste pretty good.

mmm, cheeseburgers....not!

"“Basically, we’re taking a product that would be sold at the cheapest form for dogs, and after this process we can give it to humans,”

"BPI’s innovation was to develop high-tech methods of removing bits of beef from fatty carcass trimmings that had previously been sold for pet food or animal feed and then treating the beef with ammonium hydroxide gas to kill bacteria. "

edit: I incorrectly listed aluminium hydroxide as an ingredient in the sliming process, when actually its ammonium hydroxide. But don't worry, the aluminium is found in the cheese in the form of sodium aluminium phosphate, lest that cheese refuse to calcify.
enjoy!