As World War Two was ending, the nuclear arms race was starting, and the US needed uranium. It found it on the Navajo Nation, where uranium mining left disease, pollution and the biggest radioactive spill in US history. The spill in Church Rock, New Mexico upended the lives with toxic water, livestock and a lifetime of illnesses. It still hasn’t been cleaned up. A Vox video by Ranjani Chakraborty.
The USDA is poised to allow a New Mexico slaughterhouse to butcher horses. The Administration doesn’t want to, but the horsemeat ban has expired, and an extension requires action by our do-nothing Congress. Goodbye, Old Paint.
More:
“Six-Year Ban on Horse Slaughter to End as U.S. Approves Plant,” Amanda J. Crawford and Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg News
“How to cook your horse: Equine recipes from around Europe,” Paul Ames, GlobalPost
In a stunning security coup, agents of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service seized 385 pounds of bologna sausage at the New Mexico border last week. Officials bagged the bologna bandit as he sought to smuggle illicit lunchmeat into sleepy Santa Teresa, NM (population 2607). The contraband cold cuts, with a street value of $2,700, were seized and destroyed before they reached the lunchboxes of innocent American schoolchildren.
Yet, for each bologna bagged at the border, surely six salamis slither across. Mr. President: where is our Border Wall?
Image by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.
NotionsCapital 