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If it’s true that you are what you eat, then most beef-eating Americans consist of a smattering of poultry feathers, urine, feces, wood chips and chicken saliva, among other food items. As epidemiologists scramble to figure out how dairy cows throughout the Midwest became infected with a strain of highly pathogenic avian flu — a disease that has decimated hundreds of millions of wild and farmed birds, as well as tens of thousands of mammals across the planet — they’re looking at a standard “recycling” practice employed by thousands of farmers across the country: The feeding of animal waste and...

California Central Coast residents are losing overnight access to the only free beach campsite in the Big Sur area because visitors wouldn’t clean up after themselves. On Thursday, the California Coastal Commission announced that overnight camping and campfires will be banned at San Carpoforo Beach, located off Highway 1 in northern San Luis Obispo County, for up to two years. San Carpoforo Beach has no restrooms or trash cans, which became a major issue as the area got more popular. The report said, “visitors have sometimes left large amounts of trash, debris, and human waste at the beach.” The camping...

@catturd2 Mitch McConnell is an old demented POS who can barely talk. Instead of retiring in his 80s, he’s going to try to destroy our country until the bitter end.

One of the solid hits that Ron DeSantis landed on Gavin Newsom during their Thursday night debate was his waving a map graphically illustrating that San Francisco is covered with human fecal matter (aka poop), something that magically vanished only when a Chinese dictator came to town. San Francisco may be the worst city for human poop, but it’s not the only problem facing urban America. In Baltimore, the fact that the city has become a giant urinal is destroying the city’s historic buildings. Until the modern era, cities were vast dung heaps, crawling with human and animal fecal matter....

Disney World may have earned the moniker 'the happiest place on earth' - but visitors and employees alike aren't feeling the magic after witnessing people defecating and vomiting in line. The r/WaltDisneyWorld subreddit is not just a place for fanatics to come together. It fields plenty of complaints about the park's unsanitary conditions, which are corroborated by past and current 'cast members.' 'I am in the queue for Rise of the Resistance - someone let their kid take a dump on the floor and then they just walked out and left it - WTF?' a user wrote in a thread...

Customs specialists at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport seized a box of giraffe droppings from an Iowa woman who brought them back from Kenya with the intention of making a necklace. Photo courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Customs officials in Minnesota seized a box of giraffe feces from a traveler who arrived from Kenya and said she planned to use the droppings to make a necklace. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the Iowa resident was selected for inspection by agriculture specialists upon arriving at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from a trip to Kenya....

Joe and Jennifer Montana are among the people suing San Francisco, alleging city departments did nothing to prevent "torrents of water and untreated sewage" from flooding their homes. The lawsuit, filed in the San Francisco County Superior Court on Aug. 24, was brought by dozens of families who live, rent or own property in the Marina District. According to the lawsuit, the problem originates with San Francisco’s unusual sewer system, which is the only one in coastal California that “treats both wastewater and stormwater in the same network of pipes.” The plaintiffs allege that the city knew its aging system...

Parque Baja California should be the ideal community park. Mature trees provide shade and benches give visitors a comfortable place to sit and feel the ocean breeze. But running through the middle of the park is a drainage culvert with water flowing year round. Martin Acosta recalls seeing a couple of kids jump into the water to retrieve a soccer ball there earlier this year. One of the kids said the water “smelled like doo-doo,” said Acosta, who is an architect and environmental activist. “The kid was right, because that’s exactly what it is,” he said. The sewer water in...

Hey guys. Have been a poster from years back. Am Looking for a GIF that was so apropos to what is going on now that Deamond-crats are flooding the web with spew. It's a GIF that was posted on Free Republic often and was of a bunch of monkeys pooping and throwing poop. Have not seen it for some time anywhere. Have tried researching Free Republic history to no avail. Any one out there with knowledge where I can find this GIF?

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A San Francisco dog owner is warning other pet owners in the city of what happened to her dog, Pockets, after she got sick from ingesting human waste tainted with marijuana and opioids at a park in the city. "I noticed she was eating something, so I ran over to see what she was eating and, unfortunately, it was poop," says Shepard. It wasn't until several hours later Shepard noticed something was very wrong. "At about 8 o'clock, she was wobbling, and her tail was down. Something was definitely wrong with her." Documents from emergency care...

Everyone knows that San Francisco is the nation's largest public toilet - requiring the city to employ six-figure 'poop patrol' cleanup team, however a new report from the city Controller's Office really puts things in poo-spective.For starters, feces were found far more often in commercial sectors, covering "approximately 50% of street segments in Key Commercial Areas and 30% in the Citywide survey," second only to broken glass as can be seen in the 'illegal dumping' section.If you're wondering about the city's fecal methodology, look no further than a footnote on page 43;Feces also includes bags filled with feces that are...

The ocean is one of the planet’s great carbon sinks, absorbing nearly a third of the atmosphere’s greenhouse gas emissions. Swimming in its depths are the great whales, a population whose sheer physical mass allows them to exert an outsized influence on the ecosystem around them. While researchers have long suspected that whales are key players in the ocean’s carbon cycle, quantifying exactly how these animals alter the seas — and what we lost with their decimation a century ago — has proved difficult. Now a group of scientists has taken that challenge on. A team of ecologists, biologists and...

Fertiliser made from human faeces and urine is safe to use in agriculture and has "huge potential" to replace 25% of current synthetic products in some countries, according to research. The findings come as farmers continue to struggle with rising fertiliser costs due to a combination of climate change and the war in Ukraine. Researchers screened human waste for 310 chemicals - including rubber additives, insect repellents and pharmaceuticals - and only found them in 6.5% of the samples examined, but still at low concentrations. Scientists said low levels of the painkiller ibuprofen and mood-stabilising drug carbamazepine were found -...

Just 13 of 146 units at San Francisco’s Four Seasons Private Residences have been purchased in the two years they’ve been up for sale, according to the San Francisco Business Times. The high-rise development, which sits across from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, features condos that range in size from studio to penthouse, including a $49 million two-level residence listed as the most expensive penthouse in the city in 2019. City records obtained by the Business Times show the building’s last sale was on June 1, meaning not one of the condos sold in the year’s third quarter.

More residents of San Francisco are looking to relocate within the next year than people in any other major metropolitan area, according to U.S. Census data. Results of the most recent American Housing Survey conducted by the Census Bureau show that about 8% of the city's population plan on moving to a different city, The San Francisco Chronicle reported, while about 18% of residents in the SF metro area plan on moving from their home in the next year. At 7.2%, the Seattle area was the only metro comparable to San Francisco in terms of people thinking of moving away....

Thousands of dead fish and other marine life carcasses are washing ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area, creating a foul smell. Experts point to an unprecedented "red tide" algae bloom as the mostly likely cause. Abnormal numbers of dead crabs, bat rays, striped bass, white sturgeon and more have been spotted throughout the Bay area over the last week, officials say, notably at Oakland's Lake Merritt. The start of the fish die-off could date back even further—as the harmful algae bloom has been spreading since late July. The carcasses are worrying environmental scientists, as they mark a devastating loss...

Polio outbreaks in New York and London are spreading, in part, through human feces and bad sanitation habits. One New York man was found to have been infected with polio earlier this summer, the first American case in years and he ended up temporarily paralyzed, according to ABC News. Authorities then discovered the virus spreading throughout the wastewater systems both in London and in various parts of New York, indicating that more cases are going undetected. The New York man suffered from vaccine-derived poliovirus. There are two types of polio vaccines in common use today: an injection which uses a...

Twitter's legal complaint accusing Elon Musk of violating his $44 billion takeover agreement includes an unusual exhibit The lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Delaware cites Musk's May 16 tweet, among others, as evidence that he publicly disparaged Twitter, in violation of the merger agreement, before he backed out of the deal entirely. Musk's tweet with the smiling poop emoji came in response to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who had sent several tweets explaining the company's procedures to combat spam and fake accounts, a battle Agrawal described as 'dynamic.' Last week, Musk said he was terminating the buyout deal over concerns...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s population shrank for the second year in a row in 2021 as the nation’s most populous state was hit by declining birth rates, higher deaths from the pandemic and fewer people moving into the state from elsewhere in the U.S., officials said Monday. California lost 117,552 people in 2021, putting its population to 39,185,605, the California Department of Finance said. That’s still the largest state population in the country ahead of second-place Texas. But after years of steady population growth for California that put it close to having 40 million residents, the state’s population is...

One of the Bay Area's tech giants is closing its San Francisco office, multiple media outlets reported this week. PayPal has a location at 425 Market St., between First and Fremont streets, and it will remain open for employees to use on a voluntary basis until early June. The San Francisco office houses staff who work for the company's Xoom service that allows customers to send money to family and friends around the world and pay international bills. The digital payment firm’s headquarters will continue to operate in San Jose. PayPal would not comment specifically on the closure, but said...