Today’s stories don’t have a whole lot to do with veganism, other than some connections to plants and animals, and I’m sure I could string something together, but folks, honestly, I’m just amazed at these articles and felt like sharing.
A British Columbia man has been charged with feeding bears. Feeding bears is a no-no, because they’ll get all domesticamicated or something, so Allan Wayne Piche is looking at potential fines of up to $100,000 or a year in prison. There’s no word on what charges he’ll be facing for the one thousand marijuana plants found on his property, which was why the cops raided his property in the first place, but hey, you go get ‘em, Ministry of the Environment!
In all, well, most, seriousness, the Ministry was able to “wean” the bears back to nature by gradually reducing the feed levels, which means they didn’t have to euthanize any of them, and kudos to them for properly cleaning up after a drug bust, but I just love how the story’s all about the bears and the drugs are an afterthought.
In other news, British Columbia has gained a new plant species: the world’s deadliest mushroom has been spotted and is likely to stay. Wanna know how deadly the mushroom is? It’s called the death cap mushroom. It’s so deadly it can kill you. It’s, like, lethally deadly.
Oh, and THEY CAN LEVITATE.
I don’t have anything to add, I just liked the picture.
OK, one more, from the same website, because I think they’re speaking to me, and this one isn’t terribly funny but it’s good news just the same: a diet rich in nutrient-dense foods might lead to stronger bones. Nutrient-dense foods are ones with high ratios of nutrients to calories, as opposed to calorie-dense foods, which have high ratios of calories to doughnuts. Plant-based foods are packed with nutrients and don’t usually have a lot of calories, so they win, and people who eat a lot of them tend to have fewer fractures.
Fish also gets mentioned, but let’s just ignore that because there’s lots of plants in the article and fish have more heavy metals which means you’ll trigger the airport detectors even more often if you eat them, or so says my science, so just stick with the plants and you’ll have a better chance of being an 80 year old pro-wrestler, body slamming and top-rope diving like the strong boned person you are.
