The History Of Biological Warfare Is Long And Disgusting

“The award for most gruesome form of biological warfare goes to the Tartars. In 1346 they laid siege to Caffa, a bustling trading post on the north coast of the Black Sea. The relationship between Caffa’s Italian settlers and the Tartars, who inhabited the region, had recently soured, and the Tartars were out for blood. When their men began to die of the Black Death, they loaded the corpses into catapults and flung them over the walls of the city.”
 — While we were thinking about disease-ridden punk rock as it concerns the food supply yesterday, The Last Word On Nothing’s Cassandra Willyard was writing about the history of biological warfare. And reminding me to once again cue up The Plague’s “In Love.” Which has laid siege to my brain for the past 48 hours because it so awesome.