When my friend Terry Allen, copyeditor and layout aficionado for the “The Hightower Lowdown” newsletter, injured her back, she ask me to fill in. Happy to do it. I haven’t done a newsletter in years, and this one was a blast. Hightower’s article on what the outrageous and greedy meat industry is doing to ranchers and consumers was — as would be expected — cogent, cutting, and humorous. Here’s the front page, but you’re going to have to subscribe to read the rest! Subscribe here.