This weeks sign of the Apocalypse.

[Gomez Adams]

I hope they don't meet. Trump would no doubt act a complete ass. I'd rather the Pope spend his time with people worth spending it with, not an irredeemable asshole.

 

[Zeedox]

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

Food safety in America is under attack.

www.theatlantic.com

Bagged lettuce ups the odds of getting a tainted product. When you buy a single head of lettuce, you’re making a bet that that exact crop hasn’t been infected. But the process of making prechopped lettuce essentially entails putting whole heads through a wood chipper. Once a single infected head enters that machine, the pieces of the infected lettuce stick around, and it’s likely that subsequent heads will become infected. “Buying a head of romaine lettuce is like taking a bath with your significant other; buying a bag of romaine lettuce is like swimming in a swimming pool in Las Vegas,” Bill Marler, a food-safety lawyer, told me.

 

[Gomez Adams]

We used to use romain almost exclusively. But after several outbreaks of e-coli bacteria in it we haven't touched it since.

For salads we use pre-washed baby spinach and for sandwiches/burgers we use iceberg.

 

[Gomez Adams]

I agree with Ben Shapiro. Definitely the 4th sign of the Apocalypse.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1922025139996110927

 

[Zeedox]

Oh gawd a Liz Cheney moment....

 

[Zeedox]

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2833716

Key Points
Question Does living within proximity to a golf course affect the risk of Parkinson disease (PD)?

Findings This case-control study found the greatest risk of PD within 1 to 3 miles of a golf course, and that this risk generally decreased with distance. Effect sizes were largest in water service areas with a golf course in vulnerable groundwater regions.

Meaning These findings suggest that pesticides applied to golf courses may play a role in the incidence PD for nearby residents.

The Surprising Connection Between Living Near Golf Courses and Parkinson's Disease

New research suggests that the pesticides used to keep golf courses pristine aren't without risk.

gizmodo.com

The closer that someone lived to one of the 139 golf courses located in the regions covered by the project (or who shared water services with a golf course), the more likely they were to be diagnosed with Parkinson’s, the researchers found. After accounting for other factors, they calculated that living within one mile (1.6 kilometers) of a golf course was associated with a 126% increase in risk of Parkinson’s compared to people who lived six or more miles (9 km) away. Residents who shared water services with a golf course also had almost twice the odds of developing Parkinson’s as those who didn’t.

 

[Gomez Adams]

It's both odd and ironic.

Two years ago when I was down at my friend's place, Wayne and I were talking about lawn care. I had asked him what he used for weed control around his trees and shrubs and he told me 42D.

I was familiar with it because it's the active ingredient in Roundup Weed Killer that there was a large lawsuit over. So this was the conversation:

Me: Doesn't that stuff cause cancer?
Wayne: I don't know. I don't think so though, because when I was first getting started in forestry after college, I practically bathed in the stuff.

Me: Say what?!
Wayne: Yeah. We would routinely have to go out and lay out flags for the crop dusters to come through to spray the weeds encroaching on small tree farms. We'd use GPS to set up the flags, then radio the plane and they were supposed to give us a few minutes to clear out but they never did. They'd come right in and spray and we'd get showered in that shit. But nothing ever happened all these years later.

Two years later, he was diagnosed with ALS.