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Liver Treats

I use beef liver, cut into half inch slices.  Add slices to boiling
water and after full boil begins again, boil for 5 minutes. At this time
I have also added either garlic or soup stock (usually chicken) to the
water so it is ''flavored''.  After the first 5 minutes of boiling
I remove the strips and put them on paper towels and let them air dry for
about 10 minutes.  Then I place them on a cookie sheet with sides..put
them into the oven for about an hour at 200 degrees .  Depending on
your oven (I have a convected oven that passes warmed air over the food)
you leave them in there until they become dry and semi hard.  Meantime
I have added more liver to the boiling water for the second batch. 
I keep doing this (adding water as needed) until I have made enough treats
to last a month or more. Keep on rotating to paper towels, then oven. 
When the strips are semi soft, then rub them between two paper towels to
remove any seasonings attached from the water.  Now slice them up
to the bits size you want.  Put back into the oven until they are
dry and stiff to touch.  After they have cooled, I put enough in an
aluminum foil or plastic baggie for a ''session''.  I then put all
the sealed (with twist tie or just crinkled up foil) bags into a regular
brown box, toss them into the freezer and they are ready and waiting. I
have also found out that when they are first taken out, it is a good idea
to ''whack'' the baggie on the counter so the pieces separate and then
let them dry out on the counter on top of a napkin or paper towel. 
This way they stay dry and are not messy.  In a rush...(is there ever
enough thought time to do everything just when it needs doing?), I have
nuked the pieces after spreading out on a paper towel just before a show. 
It makes them a little more rubbery and softer but not so messy that they
can't be in a pocket or bait bag.

2) I buy thin sliced calves liver (the thinner, the better!) at the
market for about $1 per pound. Boil it in a large skillet for about 5 minutes,
or until there is no more blood coming from it. Then, take the liver out
of the water and spread the cooked pieces on a flat baking sheet. Bake
this in the oven at 250 degrees for 2-3 hours. This produces a liver jerky
type treat. The longer you bake it, the tougher it becomes, so if you want
to pocket it, I'd bake until it is good and dried out. Added bonus - I
take the boiled water and add it to the dogs food that evening!

Oven-Dried Liver

I buy ox liver because its the cheapest and also easier to handle. I cut
it into strips roughly half inch x quarter inch and as long as you like,
then place on a wire mesh tray (I use the wire from the bottom of the toaster),
then place in the oven on slow cook or as the lowest possible setting and
let it cook/dry out for five or six hour or untill it appears dry. I leave
it out overnight or for a couple of days to dry further, then place in
a container. It does not need to be refrigerated -- I put some in my walking
coat pocket and keep it there for weeks. The dogs love it -- it's crunchy
and they keep coming back for more.

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Here, again, money-creation and credit-allocation follow power laws and are designed by sub-system level actors and institutions (banks, central banks, local and national government agencies). Their design criteria are fitted to highly abstract goals: containing or targeting inflation, increasing or decreasing the money supply, NAIRU formulas for unemployment levels, fostering private investment – all vague generalities and measured with dubious statistics

The movement toward planetary awareness is now worldwide

All our crises are closely related to the dying fossilized paradigm of “economism” and its deadly addiction to continuous economic growth measured in money, whatever the social and environmental costs.

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Yet the financial sector still dominates US politics: bailing out Wall Street firms was deemed necessary to “restore” the financial system. Investing in growing the green economy, our children’s health and education for a prosperous future are deemed “too expensive,” even as a BBC-Globescan poll in 20 countries found 72% of their public’s support governments investing in renewable energy and green technology.