Poisonous

It is approximately 2,907.8 miles that separate Illinois and the Galapagos Islands; or, for those sailors with white sailboats, that is approximately 2,525.1 nautical miles; or, for those who would fly, it would take approximately 6 hours and 2 minutes to get from one to the other location (although, if a rocket pack were employed, this blog suspects the time would be considerably less, but that's an inquiry for another post).  So, Illinois and the Galapagos Islands are not exactly proximate.  What then, is their relation?

Scientific American reported that the rat population on the Galapagos is utterly out of control, so out of control, in fact, that $1 million worth of specialized rat poison will be dropped not once, but twice on the island(s) via helicopter.  The poison itself is contained in light blue colored boxes that all other island wildlife (i.e., sea lions and birds (ala, Darwin (his finches))) will not be enticed to partake in.  Whatever extermination conglomerate is at the helm remains determined and optimistic that after two poison dumps, the rats will be entirely eradicated.  (Apparently, at some time in the past history of the Islands, someone messed with the cat population, hence, no cats = lots o' rats which now = lots o' blue poison cubes.)

Death by lethal injection is a three chemical cocktail.  Sodium thiopental is administered first to induce a coma.  Sodium thiopental has long been manufactured by a drug company located in Lake Forest, IL.  S.T. has been used less and less in recent history, and the company decided this year to stop manufacturing it altogether.  So Pentobarbital is the replacement drug of choice.  It happens to be manufactured by only one company which happens to be located in Deerfield, IL.

In 2009, Matt Damon starred in The Informant which told the story of an entrenched price-fixing scheme taking place at Archer Daniels Midland.  ADM is a huge agricultural company responsible for oil and meal derivatives of soybeans, cottonseed and sunflowers, and is perhaps most notably responsible for high fructose corn sweetening syrups and ethanol (corn by-products being nearly impossible to avoid in any mass produced food product).  ADM is located in Decatur, IL.  There is absolutely no correlation between ADM and any of the drug manufacturing companies (that this blog is aware of or posing).  However, were there to be only two relocation locales presented and they be between Illinois and the Galapagos, despite rat infestation and seeming isolation, the Galapagos sounds like a tastier option to this blogger.

Life sometimes can be poisonous.
Poisonous: –adjective 
 full of or containing poison; harmful; destructive