arsenic, chickens, and an owl watching tv

Today I learned that low levels of inorganic arsenic gives people Type 2 diabetes. Organic arsenic apparently doesn't do that, so if you're going to consume arsenic, it's better if you methylate it first, or maybe just get it at Whole Foods.

Not that Whole Foods really carries arsenic, but that link goes to a long article about how conventional chicken farming will give us all cancer, or maybe just diabetes, except there was some bad publicity around 2004, so places like Tyson caved and stopped feeding their chickens arsenic to make them big and strong. Also, I do not really feel like reporting that chickens only get to live for six weeks, but it said so in the article and I learned it, so there you go.

So since we haven't uploaded any pretty pictures recently, have a story about a dog and a baby owl, complete with a video of them watching tv.