Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

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Movable feast’ has been adopted into the language as a metaphor for things which change over time. It isn’t clear when this took place though. The phrase was certainly in use in the USA, without reference to a religious holy day, by 1882. Join the exclusive, elite, party!!! It's all happening 25,000 feet (7.62 km) above ground. Onboard the fleets of privately owned luxury jets in the rarefied air exclusive to the un-perturbed, un-guilt ridden, (un-prosecuted!), One Percent. In practice, National Standard 1 appears as the single most important aspect of managing a fishery, and all other factors are deemed less important. It prioritizes higher-volume targets over lower volume fisheries, some of which are targeted by small-boat fleets that bear the burden of conservation and become collateral damage for ensuring that OY is met for big volume harvesters. Without hard caps or management measures with real teeth, policy makers have no power under the current interpretation of MSA to slow down the industrial assault of Alaskan waters. Move enormous manufacturing complexes out of the towns and regions dependant on them for generations, to other lower wage expectant countries. Turning said areas into dead cities virtually overnight to save on wage costs for companies already realizing profit margins in the billions? This has been the single biggest driver of resistance to adequate management measures to protect lower-volume and, at times, higher value species. The standard states,”Conservation and management measures shall prevent overfishing while achieving, on a continuing basis, the optimum yield from each fishery for the United States fishing industry.”

We’ve used steel toughs since 2012; they’ve done a good job helping us cut out a considerable amount of feed waste, but they’re not without their problems. We wanted to develop a plastic alternative as we want maintenance-free equipment where possible. We don’t have much time or labour available for repair work,” Rob explains. The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.” Yet it has been, allowing corporate crooks to bilk the public out of trillions of dollars, magically making our pensions and 401(k)s disappear and walking away with astronomical payouts and absurdly lavish perks-for-life. Generously flour your work surface. Transfer the biscuit dough to it and knead it a few times until it comes together and is smooth.With a floured rolling pin, roll the dough into a rough 5-by-16-inch rectangle and cut the dough into 8 equal pieces. Making the case that our public watchdogs have become little more than obedient lapdogs, unwilling to bite the corporate hand that feeds them, Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington. We need, she argues, to go way beyond the lame Corporate Responsibility Act if we are to stop the voracious corporate predators from eating away at the very foundations of our democracy. So, what does National Standard 1 actually mean, and is it being interpreted as it was designed? How do you balance the needs of one or two insatiable sectors extracting billions of pounds of protein per annum for massive profits in contrast and sometimes at the expense of the thousands of affected Alaskan communities, small boat fishermen and subsistence users? The justification lies in National Standard 1 and Optimum Yield. Unfortunately, many of us now realize that Optimum Yield is an outdated economic concept that has been abused through forty-plus years of lobbying effort into the interpretation we now see used in our management process.For the 5.5-13.5kg piglets in early stage of the incubation period, there should be no more than 2 piglets for each feeding trough; It’s estimated that trough feeding, compared to scattering sow rolls on the ground, reduces waste by around 15%. Some units on marginal soil types say they’re saving around 0.5kg of feed per sow per day, which is a considerable improvement in efficiency cost-savings,” says Jamie Macdonald of Con-Tented Products. What good does knowing it do? In a time when the self-proclaimed "Billionaire" sitting in the office of the Presidency has placed a cotre of other millionaires and billionaires in every head position of every overseeing agency from Health and Welfare, to my personal favorite expression of dark perversity, the appointment of a former head of Exxon to the agency tasked with policing corporate and industrial pollution of our nation's land and water, the now almost paradoxical Environmental Protection Agency. Also, not every CEO is an evil pig and not everyone can be lumped into the same 'trough of greed.' There are many of them but there are many who share the same thinking as the average person in terms of wanting a comfortable life. It's idealistic to say that getting rid of these people would really change anything. In every political system, capitalist or communist for example, there is always a small group of people who end up with a great excess of resources. It's not ideal but I'd rather the government focus on bettering the lives of the average and below-average Americans than worry about the frivolous lives of the rich, even if they do contribute to economic disparity. Furthermore, for her to paint this picture that only the rich take advantage of the system in a negligent way is extremely naive because there are in fact a lot of people who rely on welfare without even trying to get an education or work hard, for example. Some of her criticisms I think also went too far like for example criticizing certain members of an airline company for receiving unlimited first class flights. Maybe it's extravagant, but how is that any different from a dentist receiving free dental care for themselves and their family? This refers to people who have benefited from something (like the pig’s feeding trough) who, after enjoying their benefits, spoil it for others. The allusion is to pigs who eat their fill, then cause the trough to spill its contents so that other pigs can’t also eat from it. What does pig in the mud mean?

What is lost in this assault? The economic, social or historical importance of the fisheries for which Alaska is known for -- halibut, salmon, crab, herring and sablefish. The troughs come complete with integral risers, to keep them above any mud, and they have drainage outlets and pre-positioned bolt holes to allow single units to be joined end-to-end in series if required. Each measure 4.7m x 0.8m wide, so can feed up to 12 sows (six-a-side), and feature a smooth, welfare-friendly surface with rolled edges and rounded corners to prevent injury to animals.It is well known that diet energy level can affect the amount of feed intake in pigs. Therefore, it is important to keep the farm team updated because feeder management can easily be modified to adjust to those energy changes. For example, feeder pan coverage should be increased when there is a reduction in diet energy level due to pigs increasing their feed intake demands and corresponding feeder usage time. Often farms operate at the maximum drinker/pig ratio (to reduce waste of water) and a change in the energy level can cause problems by increasing demand for water and not having enough access to drinkers. Why is this now the unintended reality of federal fisheries management in Alaska? As the wealth of some of America’s most powerful fisheries increased, their excessive lobby influence at the state and federal levels have reached epic proportions. Entire branches of fisheries science are funded by large corporate entitles that also receive a tax-break for this funding, but undoubtedly have an agenda -- to keep an endless supply of cheap seafood protein flowing around the globe. Influence means everything in politics and politics unfortunately dictate management in many instances.

For 23-34kg pigs in the incubation period, there should be no more than 4 pigs for each feed trough; She is right about other things too. If we don't get money out of elections, and write strict regulations, we are fools to expect anything different in the future. I would like to add that constitutional term limits would also help clean out the corruption in our government. It seems that a relatively large proportion of Human animals, (among the small few who have found themselves in the position of heading a corporation) quite happily, one might even say rapaciously availed themselves of all super-rewarded Super-Theoretical-Accountant devised recondite methods, and means by which they glutted themselves, and over-stuffed their personal treasuries. Feeding frenzies which drained the corpses of the Corp.ses, even at the expenses, even up to the deaths by blood loss of (for example) the pensions and retirement schemes of thousands of employees of those self-same corporations.

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The feeder trough is a necessary facility in pig operations, and it has various types used for large-sized pigs, medium-sized pigs and small-sized pigs, boars and sows, etc. The pig feeding troughs with different designs and sizes are suitable for different pigs. Pig feeding is a major cost for pig operations, and it can account for more than 65% of the cost of commercial pig production. Pigs require feed to meet biological needs for maintenance, growth and reproduction which are guaranteed by feed efficiency (feed conversion rate), and the feed efficiency is effected by pig feeder types and settings. the grunting of the pigs. If you call someone a pig, you think that they are unpleasant in some way, especially that they are greedy or unkind. They’re all a bunch of greedy pigs. What does pig mean in texting? According to the research from Europe, unreasonable size or design of pig feeder trough can reduce 20% daily feed intake of pigs, thus impairing the pig growth rate. The design and setting of pig feeder trough should be based on a principle of easy and normal feed taking for pigs. In a small bowl, whisk together the egg with salt until combined. Use a pastry brush to brush the sides and top of the “blanket” in the egg wash and transfer to the oven.

Using good health management practices. Providing plenty of fresh, clean water. Changing rations slowly. Providing rations containing medication to prevent specific diseases that kill or cripple pigs. Con-Tented’s design spec is the culmination of extensive assessments carried out with a number of commercial units, spanning a good few years. The precision-moulded troughs are robust, corrosion-free, pig proof, ergonomic and require zero maintenance, the company says. Upon perusing the bleak picture Ms. Huffington paints, and all this portends about the true nature of a portion of this world's fellow humans, the reader can only shake his/her head in utter disillusionment in the hope for any remaining particles of optimism he/she may have been sheltering, regarding the depths of unethicality, immorality, indecency, even inhumanity beyond which anyone other than the most depraved serial killer could possibly descend.

Pigs are single-stomach animals and require two or three meals a day. Divide the food into two portions, feed the pigs half in the morning and the rest in the evening. Do not feed your pigs only once a day because once they had their fill they will only play with the rest of the food, stand in it and soil it. Is moving feast a saying? caveat: this style of book is well outside of my "comfort zone" or normal reading material and thus I find it a challenge, in a way, to review, but-