I took some more flower pictures

Ring Around the Rosie

And in scary food news

dogemperor has been following the Chinese-import gluten/contaminated food story closely, and it's now confirmed that it's in the human food chain. Latest post here, news ticker post here.

The whole story has been rather worse than you'd think, if you only listened to, say, national news on the radio, so you may wish to read up.

An addendum; USDA organic, Cascadia (Washington State, Oregon, British Columbia) organic

kathrynt has suggested that I note that "USDA Organic"-certified products cannot be less than 95% organically-grown foodstuffs, and that as China has no organic certification programme in place, Chinese food materials (including protein sources) are excluded from that 95%. They would be completely excluded from "USDA 100% Organic" products, and that is a separate label.

There are also a variety of state organic certification processes which often have more stringent requirements than the USDA programme. Washington State's is here, and is more strict than USDA general requirements.

Also, while we are not certain about this, we know that in some cases that getting a farm organically certified requires 100% organic practices, which would exclude slop originating from these sources. This may be helpful for those seeking non-contaminated pork sources. For example, Washington State's programme would exclude this type of contaminated pork slop on the basis that it lacks organic certification and that feeding requirements require 100% organic foods.

If anyone more knowledgeable than me plus google could comment on Oregon and British Columbia organic certification programmes, I would appreciate that and would elevate it to top level in this post. Here are summaries of Oregon Tilth and British Columbia Certified Organic standards.