I've said this before and I'll say it again-World hunger is an economic problem, we can feed the world if they have the money to buy food. Anything we do to make food more expensive just to lower our guilt level or make us feel good is at a cost to a fellow human. Look at the "pink slime" controversy, even those of us who might not eat pink slime benefited from it. How? more of the cow is harvested and put into the food chain meaning two things- we need to kill fewer cows AND all beef is a little cheaper because the packer gets more yield on what they kill and the cheaper cuts have to compete with pink slime. Now to prove I'm a conservative nut-job I remember reading in the bible Genesis chapter 9 God gives man "every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants I give you everything" later in the same chapter murder is prohibited. So PETA trying to prevent me from eating animals is a violation of my right to free expression of my religion. What PETA and some of the other animal rights activists don't understand is the animal industries we have today have developed over thousands of years, Diary Stanchion barns developed as much to keep the cattle comfortable, fed and out of the elements as for man's convenience. Confined chickens? Prevent cannibalism among chickens, protects them from rapid spread of disease, keeps them in an environment conducive to growth and safe from predators. As most anyone who works with farm animals will tell you animals are not people, they have different needs and wants and domesticated animals need man's intervention to live a quality life. If turned loose to fend for themselves a large percentage of domesticated animals will die prematurely. Heck even wild animals often die horrible slow and painful deaths in the wild without man being involved. I'll leave you with a final thought- I have an Animal Science/Dairy Husbandry degree from a big ten university. In a few of my classes we used research animals and in others cared for production animals owned by the university to demonstrate the capability of applying our classroom knowledge to real live animals. The quickest way to fail those classes and get bounced out of the program was to abuse or neglect those animals.
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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