Salad recall

River Ranch Fresh Foods, LLC of Salinas, CA is initiating a voluntary recall of 2,154 cases of various bagged salad products due to the potential of being contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes following a routine random test conducted by the Ohio Department of Agriculture.

Animal Rights Idiocy

It seems that last week, "unidentified" animal rights people decided to turn out the pens at a mink farm. As usual, this tactic was not dreadfully successful in either helping the mink, or shutting down the business. The majority of the mink were promptly rounded back up, as they mostly just hung around the building where food has always been. That's really quite the common outcome for these mass releases--animals, it seems, LIKE a steady supply of food, and tend to return to where they've been fed. This exceedingly simple fact has apparently eluded the attention of animal rights terrorists for years, and leads me to believe the mink are smarter than the activists. Of the mink that were not caught, several were killed on the road; also common, as an animal who has lived in a protected pen its entire life is unlikely to be very road-smart.

At least one of the mink was shot by a neighbor, who didn't know what the weird animal pacing on his porch was, but suspected a rabid marten. Yes, I know this happened. No, I don't have a source to link-site. No, I'm not the neighbor.
Martens are native to this area, but do not typically pace around on porches. Mink are not native to the area, and you can see why someone might mistake one for a marten.