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I love that phrase. “Harvested out of compliance.”

“What happened in this case was that there were some animals that were harvested out of compliance,” he said.

They also like to use “non-ambulatory” (”Can’t Walk”).  Another choice word.

Putting aside the problems of our mechanized meat manufacturing factory farms (mmmff! cow down!), this sort of safe, sanitized, scientific language sucks the vitality right out of the everything.  That’s the point, of course, but it’s damned dangerous.

Just as any concept pushed to its logical extreme becomes absurd, once we reduce everything to its most basic components we remove all value, all meaning, all life.  Precisely the sort of mental devaluation mass murderers perform on their victims, or in any of a number of other atrocious, horrific things our species has done to itself, directly or indirectly.

I wish a news agency would discuss a “terrorist bombing” in terms of “harvesting out of compliance”.

Looks like I will be at the MySQL Conference and Expo again this year. I try to attend as many sessions as possible, but I always end up meetin’-n-greetin’ and I’m sure this year will be no different.

So if I owe you a beer, or more importantly if you owe me a beer, you know where I’ll be.

Of course and as always, if you are interested in joining the MySQL Support Team you can drop me an email or catch me on Freenode or trip me as I walk by and we can meet up at the conference and discuss the subject!