Jan 18

For all you folks who have been hording twinties thinking that they last forever, keeping them for the end of the world, you might be starving when the end does come.

Today I found out that Twinkies have a shelf life of only 25 days. The popular notion that they “last forever” or for some ridiculously large amount of time is incorrect.

Here are some other popular myths concerning Twinkies:

* Twinkies aren’t baked. The sponge cake instead is made from a chemical reaction that causes a cake-like material to foam up. It is then colored dark brown at the bottom to give the appearance of being baked. (This is of course false. Twinkies are in fact baked and their primary ingredients are flour, sugar, and eggs.)

* Contain a chemical used in embalming fluid which helps account for some of their extreme longevity. (wrong again!)

* The Twinkie will last longer than the cellophane wrapper they’re wrapped in (nope, 25 days and then they get stale and go bad in a similar fashion to any other bread)

via Twinkies Are Only Good for 25 Days.

Jan 15

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.  So if we eat them they are more important than if we don’t so we better protect our cows so we can slaughter them later.

In an effort to reduce the badger population “as far as we can,” the animals will be trapped and shot to death in a “bovine TB endemic area” where 42 percent of cattle owners in the area had at least one case of TB in their herd since 2003. According to reports, Affairs Minister Elin Jones said that bovine TB is “out of control” and compensating farmers costs the taxpayers.

via Controversial Badger Cull to Combat TB in Cattle : EcoWorldly.