Wonder what PETA thinks of this. It's a box of honeybees, trapped and caged, laboring under who knows what horrendously cramped confines. The boxes are manufactured by a British company called Inscentenial Technology. They also show customers how to train the bees, using tiny whips and chains and shock collars (or so we've heard).

Bees, according to the company's propaganda, have acute senses of smell, and can be trained in a matter of minutes (Schhewwitt! Schhewwitt! Schhewwitt!) to sniff out such things as explosives, drugs, rotten apples, people with tuberculosis and other people who've had way too many Slim Jims.

If you would like to let this company know exactly what you think of their cruel mistreatment of the humble, hardworking bee, here's their email address

http://www.inscentinel.com

Or better yet, why not just send them a big box of raging hornets. Mark it "Fragile. Pretty things."

An udderly fascinating whodunit is on page A21 of the current edition of Lancaster Farming. It's a tale of laboratory detectives using first-of-its-kind-in-the-U.S. technology to ferret out mastitis with much more accuracy than current testing methods allow. The equipment is now undergoing tests at Lancaster Laboratories, as reported in this story by Chris Torres.

If you like to listen to really good country music while you're sipping that glass of raw milk, you might want to turn on your radio. Just don't go here

http://www.letslegalizeit.com/