Killing them softly
Great article by Esty Dinur on the benefits of buying meat and poultry from markets selling humanely raised and slaughtered animals (“A Better Way,” 3/31/2016). The background information is helpful. Especially useful is where to buy products. Bravo to all who try to make a difference in effective, caring ways for farm animals and consumers.
Janet Duschack (via comments)
Book burning
Re “Hard Up” (3/31/2016): This is the modern way of burning books. Brown Shirts wear suits and ties. Starve the Beast is the well-known neo-con strategy that applies here. And interested billionaires may well invest in the kind of education that benefits themselves.
Mark Jansen (via Facebook)
Correction
An article last week about school district funding referendums incorrectly stated that the Monona Grove School District laid off specialized teaching staff; the district lost those teachers to other districts offering higher salaries.
