Journal: October 2022
Journal for October 2022
Monthly retrospective
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2022-10-14
Read the short story Hwasubun. Bleak.
2022-10-12
2022-10-09
In 2017, DxE activists entered a factory farming facility in Utah owned by Smithfield Foods (a subsidiary of WH Group, the world’s largest ‘pork’ company) and carried out two sick piglets. They took the pigs to a sanctuary in Colorado, where they received treatment and care.
The activists said they had ‘rescued sick pigs and had them treated.’ Confident that their actions were honorable, they filmed the entire rescue and posted it online. They call this open rescue and argue that humans have a right to rescue.
But under US law (as in Korea), pigs are private property, so the activists were charged with trespass and theft. Moreover, they had ‘fled’ across state lines while taking the pigs ‘stolen’ in Utah to Colorado, making them federal offenders and eventually subjects of an FBI pursuit.
At their trial on October 9, 2022, they were acquitted of all charges.
The irony: to strengthen their theft claim, the livestock producers had to argue that the pigs taken from them were highly valuable. So they exaggerated the piglets’ value. But the reason they had neglected the sick piglets in the first place was that sick piglets had no commercial value.
2022-10-06
The distinction between GMO and non-GMO seems very complicated, depending on the country and situation. Something edited with gene scissors might not be considered a GMO if no external gene was introduced; oil extracted from GMO soybeans might not be considered GMO; and so on.
2022-10-02
The iOS 16.1 beta added a “Clean Energy Charging” option, defaulting to “On.” It adjusts charging times to use electricity with relatively lower carbon emissions, depending on the region. Even after installing 16.1 in Korea, I still don’t see the option, so apparently it isn’t supported everywhere.