Today I learned that cuttlefish experience REM sleep, and that it makes their skin flash random colors. This is the cutest thing ever.
The electric eel at my aquarium has a voltmeter attached to his tank, and whenever he pumps out a burst of electricity–either when he’s navigating his tank or getting fed–the meter lights up and makes noise. Sometimes, I’ll walk past him when he’s snuggled up and totally motionless on his log, and see the voltmeter going crazy.
I am left to assume that he is dreaming, and is sleep-zapping at the things in his dreams.
I am absolutely delighted to learn that electric eels dream of kicking ass.
lucky charms and cheerios continue to make children and adults sick, the cause is still under investigation, and no recall has been issued. terrifying. that means it is almost definitely not one of the common causes like salmonella…
daily harvest said tara flour made customers sick. FDA is mad they announced that because the exact cause has still not been found. daily harvest products have given people liver damage so bad they needed to have their gallbladders removed. while the current FDA investigation only involves the leek + lentil crumbles, there are many reports of other daily harvest foods like the flatbreads also harming people. if you have been affected by daily harvest’s bullshit, there is now a subreddit for it.
some more from july 2022. everything in this post is VERY recent.
the FDA is the US food & drug administration. I am not tracking recalls in other countries.
unsafe levels of fucking lead in natierra organic freeze dried blueberries which were sold across the country. these were labeled incorrectly on the FDA website which is why I missed them
the CVS recall of potentially life-threatening contaminated laxatives applies to over 30 different lemon flavored laxative products, this one manufacturer is responsible for the bulk of the supply
over a dozen different enjoy life & trader joe’s soft baked cookies and chewy bars are being recalled because they may contain shards of plastic. enjoy life cookies are advertised as “free from 14 allergens” and as non-GMO and gluten free. the amazon variety pack is included. trader joe’s recall is limited to snickerdoodle.
no FDA link for this one but apparently factor 75 meal delivery service is recalling some of their rice products for containing shards of GLASS. emails are being sent out to affected customers
the family dollar recall affects HUNDREDS of different products to the point you have to click a PDF to see them all. this includes products like: midol, toothpaste, sunscreen, lidocaine, soap, deodorant, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, benadryl, nyquil, pepcid, pepto bismol, medication for children, zyrtec, lib balm, cough drops, rash ointment, baby products, prilosec, advil, epsom salt, imodium, miralax, claritin, mouthwash, eye drops, dish soap, and MORE. if you have shopped at family dollar recently, you are going to want to check this HUGE FUCKING LIST (scroll down to “list of recalled products”)
august 11, 2022.all listings are either recent (past few months) or ongoing since the previous post unless otherwise dated.some of these recalls are now worldwide. if you want to link this information off of tumblr, then use the provided FDA links rather than the post itself. I am not the FDA, this is not official FDA communication, this is not a comprehensive list of regulatory activities (there are WAY more than what I posted), this is not a comprehensive summary of all links. my goal is to encourage you to keep up to date with recalls and share regulatory activities from their official sources, which I have provided.
there might be mistakes because I probably have food poisoning right now. go figure.
and then the nutrition shake recall was expanded again to include fucking pediatric, lactation, and tube feeding formulations. ensure harvest, pediasure, sweetie pie organics, rejuvenate, sated, tone it up, uproot, cafe grumpy, multiple types of barista products, optimum nutrition, pediasure harvest, and more. if you drink any kind of meal replacement, protein shake, plant-based ‘milk’ drink, or nutritional beverage, check this recall. these microbes can kill.
revive superfoods is now being investigated by the FDA as a part of the daily harvest investigation (#1076) for ingredients that caused severe liver damage and emergency gallbladder removal.
everything else is under a cut because this got really fucking LONG. below contains information about drugs, warnings, sunscreen containing cancer-causing ingredients, worldwide recalls of laxatives, cancer medication being pulled from the market, pulse oximeters not working on darker skin, UV disinfectant wands containing unsafe levels of radiation, updates on previously posted investigations, products causing neck injuries in babies, and a lot more.
At one point in recent history, more than one fourth of Knott County was owned by major coal companies. People were forced to work sixteen-hour days in the mines, their communities’ already-fragile infrastructure was worn down by prolonged resource extraction, their lives and housing and job options were reduced to Victorian-era levels of proletarian scarcity, and not even Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty was going to turn that around. Go to Neon, Knott County, Breathitt County, today, and witness the class war. Even before the flood, it looked like what they call natural disaster, all the time, every day.
The poor and working people of this part of Kentucky also live in social environments that are heavily policed. Many are addicted to substances that were forced upon them by pharmaceutical companies at a moment of extreme regional crisis—the organized abandonment of the coal industry. You saw how this aggressive policing played out in the hours after the flood. While everyday people braved the storm to help out their neighbors—I heard a story about one Whitesburg City Hall worker named Red, who never learned to swim but managed to rescue twelve people from their homes using an old kayak he found—the cops were already practically salivating to shoot looters. The Letcher County sheriff said he was going to “limit these dirtbags” and “make a damn example of them.” Never mind the fact that many of the area’s roads were still inaccessible at this point, leading one to the logical conclusion that he could only be referring to flood pirates.
Meanwhile, the people I’ve seen and talked with have been in no condition for looting, either physically or mentally. Everyone, rich and poor alike, is wearing that vacant face you see boxers get after taking a hard one to the jaw. This didn’t stop the sheriff and Whitesburg city police from bringing in a humvee and cruisers from at least six different regional municipalities, enforcing a curfew from midnight to 6 a.m., and towing out flooded cars from downtown without notifying the owners, then making them pay an impoundment fee. The cops’ actions infused a situation already rife with fear and paranoia with even more fear and paranoia, when what people really needed was safety and freedom of movement. This immediate rush toward a law-and-order crackdown is probably as good a harbinger of the new climate-crisis paradigm than any other thing I’ve witnessed.
But you don’t have to look hard for other examples. Every government institution, from top to bottom, has seemed content to sacrifice poor and working people one by one. As soon as the flood hit, Eastern Kentucky’s communications infrastructure buckled under duress, leaving people isolated and alone for hours. More than twenty-three thousand lost electricity. Roads and bridges have collapsed, leaving entire communities inaccessible. Others, like Neon, are without running water and waste disposal, and it may be months before this can be fixed. While President Joe Biden declared the flood a major disaster on July 29, it was another two days before the state’s first FEMA mobile registration center opened to help residents access relief; additional centers did not reach Knott, Breathitt, and other counties until August 2. You can easily talk yourself out of criticizing this delay until you concede that, yes, OK, we do live in the wealthiest, most technologically advanced society in human history, so surely something else must be going on here.
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