Extreme Thanksgiving

6 Responses to Extreme Thanksgiving

1. Patrick Linsley says:

   November 24, 2011 at 4:24 pm

   Eyeopener! Sadly it still leaves out milk, butter, and cheese at Thanksgiving dinner going up due to a smaller than predicted corn harvest. Too hot during silking through out much of the corn belt in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. It probably didn’t help that they had to plant late due to wet fields so had to deal with risking higher temps during late summer.
2. Merrelyn Emery says:

   November 24, 2011 at 4:47 pm

   I like the idea of carrots battling extreme weather by waving their fine little fronds around but it sounds very much like another glorious, bloody day at the Colosseum, ME
3. Peter Mizla says:

   November 24, 2011 at 4:52 pm

   Dinner today – which I cooked was so tasty. Shrimp cocktail (higher then last year) Fresh live Lobster (Got a good buy at Stop & Shop- its relatively cheap here in New England) Fresh half a turkey breast- up in cost over last year. Pumpkin pie up considerably over a year ago.

   Spanish Sparkling wine -méthode champenoise- Brut- prices up a bit over a year ago-

   A wonderful day in Southern New England- sunny and 50 degrees. 60 tomorrow, and 64 on Saturday.
4. David B. Benson says:

   November 24, 2011 at 10:02 pm

   Actually, Washington state has had the largest wheat crop ever and it has commanded fairly high prices to boot.

   What as been hurt in the wine grape crop. And maybe the apples weren’t all picked in time.
5. prokaryotes says:

   November 25, 2011 at 3:21 am

   Drugged-Up Turkey: Antibiotic Use On Farms Linked To Rising Rates Of Drug-Resistant Infections

   By the end of this year, an estimated 248 million turkeys will have been raised in the U.S., approximately 83 percent on farms that produce more than 60,000 turkeys each and most eating a diet that includes low doses of antibiotics. This common agricultural practice results not only in more meaty birds, according to experts, but also in greater risks to public health.

   “Antibiotic use in animals comes back to haunt people,” said Stuart Levy, a Tufts University microbiology professor who focuses on antibiotic resistance. He recently co-authored a review of the evidence showing how animal antibiotics affect human health — via direct contact and indirectly via food, water, air and anywhere manure goes.
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/23/turkey-antibiotics-drug-resistant-infections-thanksgiving_n_1110745.html

   But a stomach rules humans not the brain…
6. Clinton M says:

   November 27, 2011 at 3:37 pm

   Having grown up on a Midwestern farm and still having economic ties to agriculture, this may be good for climate hawks, but it does little to change the undecided or unsure and nothing for deniers.

   The chart uses small scale, localized events as backup for the fact that extreme weather events will increase both in frequency and intensity as a result of climate change.

   However… hawks point out deniers use of small scale, localized events as backup for denial.

   So… although I fully support efforts to educate people about our generations largest challenge and most devastating legacy for this planet… this chart is a poor attempt to support climate change education.

   We cannot use the very methods we criticise as a way to backup our points. We are smarter than that, unfortunately, this PDF is not.