AP:
Iceland's coalition government collapsed on Monday after an unprecedented wave of public dissent, plunging the island nation into political turmoil as it seeks to rebuild an economy shattered by the global financial crisis.
Clattering pans and crockery with kitchen utensils, thousands of Icelanders have joined noisy protests against the government's handling of the economy. The cacophony of kitchenware has led commentators to describe the protests as the "Saucepan Revolution."
Rallies have been held each Saturday since October. Though largely peaceful, the protests have seen Reykjavik's tiny parliament building doused in paint and eggs hurled at Haarde's limousine. Last Thursday, police used tear gas to quell a protest for the first time since 1949.
Of course, Iceland is very small and Reykjavik is close to everything and everyone.
And eggs? That's just wrong.
Why not shoes?
Even though the United States is very large, and the Village
is very far away.
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Yeah, eggs are so damned expensive! Unless you have your own
chickens.
Well, actually, they're not cheap even then, but you do get a stewing hen out of your egg producers after a few years. And chicken shit for...composting?
Did I mention someone I know in WI raises chickens, feeds them organically, and is having trouble selling them at a price which will cover the feed costs? And each hen lays one egg every day, folks--so that's 7 dozen a week with six laying hens.
And while people are now being told they can eat more eggs, it's not anything like one or even two a day.
I hadn't considered the prolific nature of laying hens....
ChiDy--how're your plans for keeping chickens coming along?
Now, as to the politics of this terrible situation for Icelanders--at least those conservatives are going to be out of office. And US NeoCons get yet another black eye.
Iceland's chickens
coming home to roost.
Well, actually 3 1/2 dozen a week--I'd thot she had 12 laying
hens. Come to thnk of it, I believe she does. Whatever, X hens times 7.
And, how could I have missed that pun? Talk about laying an egg.... Ouef!
Egg puns are for the birds
But omelet-ing you do it this once.
Stop! You're cracking me up!
It's like walking on egg shells around here--can't make puns, can't bring up tasers, can't....
But, I can take a yoke, ya know, aina hey?
But, enough or the rotten eggs will be thrown....
That's what happens
When you get cooped up with us. We may not be the cock-of-the-walk with one-liners, but we'll make Henny pun that occurs to us.
That's no eggsageration
If you'll pardon me for crowing just a bit.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ya' know
They say you can't have an omelet without breaking a few eggs. If the Icelanders want their revolution omelet, they are going to have to break a few chicken eggs.
BTW, thinly-populated Iceland is the very definition of a village. lol
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
all this cockiness has to stop
(sorry, i'm no good at puns)
chickens: still working on that. but yeah- i've noticed that the cost of feed works out to make raising chickens barely 'cheaper' unless one is very careful about it. but that's why free-ranging chickens are the way to go, assuming you've got the space for them. check out this guy for more info he seems to think feeding chickens can be a lot more versitile than just feed.
really, the way we feed animals in this country is even more fucked up than the way we feed ourselves. that will change, but it's going to take some reeducation and changes to what we expect our meat animals to taste like.
Scratching around the link you posted, noticed farmed FISH are
being fed corn products and developing bad cholesterol in their fats! Wow.
And that eating grass results in chickens which produce eggs with good cholesterol. (Is that the basis for Eggland's lower cholesterol eggs?)
Fascinating. Really.
I haven't found how much grassy area is needed for chickens yet--still looking (I have postage stamp sized front and back yards).
~~~BTW, I'm finding Corrente loading slowly for me--is it my PC or...what? Anyone else having that experience? Heh, just hit preview and for the first time in a while, it was almost instant. Could be something in the DSL, which has been driving me crazy for a few months now..
The intertubes were clogged today...
And I'm sorrry for the DSL... But it takes time for the NSA's hamsters to split the feed and send half of it your way, and half on to the analysts. So have a little patience, please. The're only trying to protect you.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I guess all the chicken-pun traffic made it hard for
the data to cross the road.
For my role in that, I feel like such a dumb cluck!
It was eggasperating!
And nobody seems to have noticed the title -- bjork, bjork, bjork ....
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Perhaps
Our brains are scrambled.
this is one of the many problems with feeding corn to livestock
they all have the bad kind of cholesterol -- pigs, cows, chicken, fish, sheep, you name it -- when fed a corn-based diet, and have mostly the good kind of cholesterol [and good kind of fats overall] when raised on grass [and bugs, in the case of chickens, and whatever it is that fish eat in the wild].
i've been buying eggs that are from chickens fed flax seed meal instead of corn, has the same effect on the cholesterol in their eggs. also, their diets are supplemented with trace minerals, which means that their eggs are higher in those nutrients.
gee, feeding nutritious diets to livestock means they produce nutritious food products. whodathunkit?
The life I lead is pretty slim pickins
There ain't much call for stompin' on chickens!
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
King Corn Keeps ADM and various other
large multinational concerns in business, so it's not going away any time soon.
anyone else taught that "yellow corn is for hogs, white corn is for people?" that one goes back to the great-great-grandfather, in mom's family.
yep
about adm et al. otoh, we can't really afford for it to go away altogether, since corn produces some of the substitutes for petroleum products that we use.
i've always eaten yellow sweet corn, not because it's better for you, but because that's what's always been available. in fact, i'd never even heard of white corn until i moved east. there does seem to be a bit of debate on which tastes better though.
looks like europeans in general regard corn as livestock feed only. since field corn [feed corn] is usually yellow, maybe that prejudice morphed somewhere along the line into the white corn / yellow corn distinction.