Just need to vent...

How 'bout dat: a Reuters article on "regenerative agriculture" containing not one word on what "regenerative agriculture" is supposed to mean:

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/global-food-beverage-giants-join-forces-regenerative-agriculture-2026-05-19/

 

Its seems plants and virtually all living things are regenerative.

 

No easy access to Reuters here. But here is a link describing regenerative agriculture:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-025-00097-7

 

"The crack in the tank discovered by firefighters on late Saturday relieved some of the pressure within the tank, Covey said.

While officials were confident that the crack wouldn't lead to any chemical leaks, ..."​

Could the journalist have asked the question "so, if the crack has relieved some of the pressure, what's been coming out?"

I guess somewhere I read that MMA fumes are heavier than air, so if there's air-filled headspace at the top (and there's supposed to be) and the crack is up there, maybe only air has been venting. Still, it would be nice if the report said that.

 

All of it will be used, so some form of it will be dispersed into nature. Some will be spilled into nature in smaller amounts and no one usually knows anything about it. I remember they used to have vats of trichlorethylene in the open to clean components, people exposed every day, had their bare hands in it. They used to just dump it out behind the buildings, which in those days around Sunnyvale CA probably was fruit orchards and new subdivisions going in. Later it came out trichlorethylene was a cancer causing substance so it was replaced with trichlorethane.
Unions helped protect workers, but these weren’t union probably until much later if ever. The governments had to pass protection legislation.

 

As a kid of the '60s, my dad was much more thoughtful than just dumping old motor oil and or radiator antifreeze. Motor oil along the chain link fence was used to kill the grass from a growing up through the links.

 

When I worked in news, I would have thrown the story back to the reporter and asked that question ==Could the journalist have asked the question "so, if the crack has relieved some of the pressure, what's been coming out?"

But editors are few nowadays and much of the reporting is very shoddy because of the lack of oversight. I remember the classic "every wildfire season" question I threw at a reporter "What is a contained fire and and what is a controlled fire." Only the vet's got it right and only the vet's answered that in their stories -- before I asked. Gosh, I hated making cub reporters look stupid -- I really did. But it was for the good of the readers.

 

If I have some random non-urgent health question, it seems reasonable to wait for my annual checkup and just ask it then. But I guess I need to learn not to do that.

Asking a question apparently reclassifies my annual checkup as a diagnostic visit. The visit itself, and all the ordered-in-advance annual checkup lab work, gets reclassified from 100% covered to deductible+copay, and I lose the $50 incentive offered for getting an annual checkup.

 

exactly. we discussed this somewhere else. it's confusing, which seems to be what the medical industry is built on

 

dupe