Recent reading, the You want it, You got it edition.

 

You want to drink ten gulps of water from a bottle you then throw away, this is what you get. (Hat tip Joe Cap for the astounding graphic story)

You want a $4.99 chicken at Costco, this is the meat industry you get. (More of my posts on animal husbandry.)

You want cheap shrimp, this is the aquaculture you get.

You want to replace walkable NYC stores with Amazon, this is the traffic you get. (More of my posts on online shopping.)

How Halifax's library deals with rule breakers.

Everyone has a vacation quirk. My family's is to visit libraries wherever we go. Last week we visited Halifax's central library and uncovered this brilliant scheme they have to make peace with rule breakers.

Recent reading

Put a tariff on imported aluminum and Wisconsin dairy farms go belly up. A tale of how tariffs do tricky things. 

More tales of inside an Amazon.com warehouse, where the people begin to imitate the robots.

I don't know why this makes me happy, but it does. And it makes me wonder what we could do with an idea like this at ZMO. (The author often has a perspective I learn from and admire. Worth reading.)

Recent reading

Women ranchers reclaiming the West, featuring our very own Cory Carman at Carman Ranch. What gives meat flavor: animal welfare edition has even more about her work.

A whole bunch of stuff I didn't know about Spanish cheese history.

Remove embarrassment, increase sales. Who knew? An article on growing sales by reducing obstacles to feeling bad.