Michigan - Below-normal temperatures prove frustrating for area businesses, gardeners

Ben Bartlett, director of the Michigan State University Extension Office in Cheboygan County, said the chilly temperatures tend to pose bigger issues for vegetable and hay crops than for corn and small grains.

“There has actually been some frost damage to some hayfields,” he said.

Apparent nutcase Jim Motavalli weighs in: Meat: The Slavery Of Our Time : NPR

NPR.org, June 5, 2009 · I have a prediction: Sooner than you might think, this will be a vegetarian world. Future generations will find the idea of eating meat both morally absurd and logistically impossible.
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The environmental impact is also crystal clear — and similarly appalling. "Livestock's Long Shadow," a 2006 report by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organzation (FAO), found that livestock is a major player in climate change, accounting for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions (measured in carbon dioxide equivalents), or more than the entire global transportation system.

The obvious solution to both health and environmental disasters is to stop eating meat altogether.
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In the way that slavery, once a broad social norm, later became an unthinkable crime, we can expect to see a similar shift once meat-eating disappears from our planet.