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Feed the Animals is the fourth studio album by American musician Gregg Gillis, released under his stage name Girl Talk by Illegal Art on June 19, 2008. Illegal Art originally released the album as a digital download through their website using a "pay what you want" pricing system. Like much of his previous work, Gillis composed Feed the Animals almost entirely using samples of other artists' music and minor elements of his own original instrumentation.
Gillis stated that with Feed the Animals, he wanted to produce an album "you can sit down, relax, and listen to over and over again, finding out new things", in contrast with the fast-paced, frenetic nature of his live performances.[1] Feed the Animals builds on the mashup format of previous Girl Talk albums, with Gillis using over 300 samples of music by other artists to compose the album's fourteen tracks.[2] He produced the album as one long piece of music, which was then subsequently broken into individual songs.[3] Gillis felt that the album "works towards a bigger whole" and initially considered releasing the album as a single piece without track divisions, but ultimately decided against the idea, as he felt that "the end of the album would get so neglected, and if your favorite moment was a 30-second bit at the 40-minute mark, it would be really annoying to have that."[1]
On June 19, 2008, Feed the Animals was made available for download by Girl Talk's record label, Illegal Art, sells Feed the Animals using a "pay what you want" system for non-seamless MP3 files.[4] Gillis explained that the goal behind the special payment system was to "make it easier for people to get their hands on the music", which he described as his "number one priority."[5] Additional content was made available to paying users, including FLAC files and a one-file seamless MP3 version of the album for those paying at least $5.00, and a CD copy for those paying at least $10.00.[4] Non-paying users have to select a reason for doing so from a list of provided options: "I may donate later"; "I can't afford to pay"; "I don't really like Girl Talk"; "I don't believe in paying for music"; "I have already purchased this album"; "I don't value music made from sampling"; "I am part of the press, radio, or music industry", or "other reasons".[6]
In their December 2008 issue, Blender magazine named Feed the Animals as the second best album of 2008, behind only Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III. In Australia, the album debuted at number 83 on the ARIA Albums Chart in February 2009.[20]
Feed the Animals is the fourth album by American mashup musician Girl Talk. Illegal Art released the album in digital download format on June 19, 2008 through their website, using a "pay what you want" pricing system.[1] The album utilizes 322 different samples, with some minor original instrumentation from Girl Talk himself.[2] It received generally positive reviews from critics, scoring 76/100 on review aggregate website Metacritic.[3]
Following in the style of Night Ripper, all of the album's tracks segue into each other; describing this, Girl Talk explained: "The sound naturally evolved, and eventually, I had enough material to put out full-length album in this style."[4] The album was created as one long piece of music and then subsequently broken into individual songs.[5]
Feed the Animals was released digitally by Illegal Art through their website on June 19, 2008.[1] The label implemented "pay what you want" pricing system for those purchasing Feed the Animals, which has since been implemented on other Girl Talk albums.[1] Users choosing to pay $0.00 receive the album in individual song files, but must choose from the following options explaining their choice of price beforehand: "I may donate later"; "I can't afford to pay"; "I don't really like Girl Talk"; "I don't believe in paying for music"; "I have already purchased this album"; "I don't value music made from sampling"; "I am part of the press, radio, or music industry", or "other reasons".[6] Those paying $5 can access FLAC files and a one-file seamless MP3 version of the album; for $10, users can obtain a CD copy.[1]
Girl Talk has stated that the system was implemented to "make it easier for people to get their hands on the music, which is my number one priority."[4] A CD issue was planned for release on September 23, 2008, but manufacturing issues involving their production forced the date to be pushed back to November 11, 2008.[7] Wham City Records was to handle the album's vinyl issue, but a release never sufficed.[6]
On March 19, 2008, a purported leak of Feed the Animals was released to the Internet and spread quickly on torrent networks.[9] The next day, Gillis posted a message on his MySpace account to assure that the version was a fake.[9] The original artist, Speaky, soon apologized, explaining that the leaked album was in fact his album Mashcore Volume 2 and that he had posted the album under its correct name but it was subsequently retagged.[9]
Visual artist Andrew Strasser, who has worked closely with Girl Talk throughout his career, designed the album's cover, which features the initials "GT" burning on the front lawn of a suburban house. Strasser also coined the title Feed the Animals, as Girl Talk later explained: "We noticed that anytime the [tour] inflatables were placed relatively close to the crowd someone would get their hands on it and completely tear it apart or crowd surf it back. Andrew started referring to setting up the visuals as 'feeding the animals.' It went a little bit further and we started referring to the shows from both our standpoint and the fans as feeding the animals. The shows are everyone's time to just get wild and enjoy themselves for that day."[10]
Feed the Animals received generally positive reviews from critics.[3] Robert Christgau, writing for MSN Music, graded the album "A" and wrote: "...Gregg Gillis has plenty to say about music. What he has to say about life... remains more limited. Nevertheless, sequences here give me hope. In my favorite, Ice Cube's 'AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted' turns into Hot Chocolate's 'Every 1's a Winner'."[11] Michaelangelo Matos of The A.V. Club attributed the album's appeal to "Gillis' sense of sonic proportion", which "gives the whole mix a curvaceousness that make even the most unnatural tandems seem perfectly logical."[12] Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork rated Feed the Animals 8.0/10 and wrote that "[It] helps to solidify Gillis' role as the supreme 80s-baby pop synthesizer. And while others have attempted to claw up to his lofty position, no one has managed to match his unique mix of diversity, pace, and open-mindedness".[13]
In his Rolling Stone review of the album, Christian Hoard praised the album and noted: "Rarely is postmodern art such bloody good fun."[14] Tim O'Neil of PopMatters was also enthusiastic: "Feed the Animals is a wonderful achievement, but don't take my pseudo-intellectual pontification as proof of anything, go listen to it yourself. Albums like these are actively changing the way people think about and listen to pop music, and in doing so Girl Talk is contributing to a very long lineage of conceptual innovators stretching back all the way to Thomas Edison, a stream of engineers and musicians dedicated to liberating music from the tyranny of direct representation of physical sounds."[15]
Feeding farm animals is a process of priority decision-making involving at least two general conditions. The first is an abundance of food material which is not in a usable form or aesthetically acceptable as human food, and the second is a surplus of food material accompanied by a standard of living sufficiently high that the nutrient losses involved in feeding animals are compensated for by the increased desirability and nutritional excellence of foods of animal origin.Decisions relevant to the first set of conditions include determining the optimum numbers and kinds of animals that can be productively supported by the available feedstuffs. Efforts should be made to maximize production; but also to allocate nutrient supplies in a competitive situation for the maximum benefit to the society concerned. These decisions are among the most critical that civilization faces today.Decisions can be made only on the basis of reliable information concerning the composition of all feed materials used in animal feeding. This information is fundamental in assigning priorities to the use of available feed supplies in animal agriculture.1.1 International Network of Feed Information Centre (INFIC)German documentation began in 1949 and the United States began in 1952. Although there was some contact between the two centres for several years, it was not possible to combine or adapt the systems to each other. Personnel at the Utah (United States) centre contacted FAO concerning the need for world cooperation. FAO, in turn, sent a consultant to review on-going international activities in the fields of feed data collection and methods for retrieval of these data, and to report on possibilities for collaboration on an international basis. The report (Alderman, 1971) enumerated the value of a collaborative effort in this field, both to developing countries and to animal production at the international level and recommended that FAO act as the coordinator for international activities in collection of data on feed composition and its summarization and dissemination.The first consultation meeting was held in 1971, in Rome. At that time representatives from several feed information services formed the International Network of Feed Information Centre (INFIC Publication 1, 1977). Members (besides FAO) were: Australian Feed Information Centre, Sydney, Australia; Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada; International Feedstuffs Institute, Utah State University, Utah, U.S.A.;. US AID Feed Composition Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A., and Universität Hohenheim, Dokumentationsstelle, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany.Since then, meetings of the INFIC group have been held annually, and the following centres have joined INFIC: The Arab Centre for Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD), Damascus, Syria; College of Fisheries, Aquaculture Division, University of Washington, U.S.A.; The International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Institute d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux (IEMVT), Maisons-Alfort, France; the Latin American Programme for Feed and Feeding Systems, at the Institute Interamericano de Ciencias Agricolas (IICA), San Jose, Costa Rica; and the Tropical Products Institute (TPI), London, United Kingdom. In the meantime, the US AID Feed Composition Project in Florida has been terminated and its responsibilities were transferred to the Utah Centre. Participation by other feed information services throughout the world is encouraged by INFIC. All centres function independently with regard to financing, personnel, data retrieval, research and publications.2. AN INTERNATIONAL FEED NOMENCLATURE 2.1 Classes of Feeds by Composition and Usage
2.2 International Feed Description
2.3 Short Feed Names
2.4 Official Country Names