> #AnimalRights protesters targeted Rembrandt’s billionaire owner, #GlenTaylor, over the cull, including disrupting games played by the professional basketball team he owns, the #Minnesota #Timberwolves.
> Others fired from the plant contrast the seriousness with which the #BirdFlu outbreak has been taken... the company’s lax approach to the threat to workers from #Covid, as it swept through #FactoryFarms and #slaughterhouses in #Iowa and elsewhere.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa

The #SportsTeamOwner lines that have been bothering me for 6 months. People in #Florida probably know who the model for Helmut von Zeppelin is, maybe Huizenga in 2001?
> He was nearing the rarefied peak of Mount Bastard. When Helmut walked by, even other most vicious corporate bastards sad, "Now that's a bastard!" There was only one more level above him, and von Zeppelin was determined to reach it.
> Sports team owner
The book came to mind in June with #GlenTaylor
https://mstdn.jp/@bsmall2/108469100786710767

The #SportsTeamOwner lines that have been bothering me for 6months. People in #Florida probably know who the model for Helmut von Zeppelin is, maybe Huizenga in 2001?
> He was nearing the rarefied peak of Mount Bastard. When Helmut walked by, even other most vicious corporate bastards sad, "Now that's a bastard!" There was only one more level above him, and von Zeppelin was determined to reach it.
> Sports team owner
The book came to mind in June with #GlenTaylor
https://mstdn.jp/@bsmall2/108469100786710767

#SportsTeamOwners are the worst of the worst. Buying a team is the way #billionaires prove that they are worse than the other spoiled, subsidized guys. I can't remember if I read the discussion in a #TimDorsey or a #CarlHiaasen book. gotta look around for the #Florida paperbacks laying around and try to find the quotes. Searching turned up articles about subsidizing stadiums, so maybe the paragraphs were in a #Hiaasen book.
https://archive.tcpalm.com/opinion/columnists/carl-hiaasen-not-sure-whats-a-bigger-stinker--the-miami-dolphins-or-the-plan-to-renovate-their-su-ep-342733012.html/
#StadiumSubsidies for #GlenTaylor too?

> .. authorities[1] appear to have learned.. lessons from 2015, when a bird flu outbreak resulted in what the US agriculture department calls “the largest poultry health disaster in US history”, with the slaughter of about 50 million chickens and turkeys.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa
#AnimalFactory #chickens #RembrandtEnterprises #GlenTaylor #Timberwolves #AvianFlu
[1] Still not learning to reform centralized large-scale organization for decentralized small-scale activity with resilience.