solarpunkwobbly:

sprachtraeume:

angryfishtrap:

wordnerdworld:

march27thoughts:

cubern:

thespectacularspider-girl:

jiggly-jello-squid:

art-angelsz:

nunyabizni:

trashcanbees:

asapscience:

Fruits and vegetables, before and after human intervention. 

Source

We did a pretty good fucking job, Jesus Christ

Remember this the next time you want to complain about GMO’s, we may not have done it in a lab but they still are that.

Bananas looked like lemons wtf

Isn’t this more of a combination of selective breeding and GMOs? Not just GMOs?

Yes.  But people talk about how GMO’s are “unnatural”, yet for centuries humanity has been exploiting mutations in animals and plants to produce food for themselves.

GMO’s are simply the process of inducing these mutations reliably.

People hear “Lettuce being modified with scorpion DNA” and think that we’re now eating scorpions.  But, in reality, they’re taking a tiny bit of scorpion DNA and splicing it into the plant.  Why?  So the plant will produce poison that is not harmful to humans but will deter insects, reducing the use of pesticide, which CAN be harmful to humans and the environment.

GMOs are producing rice that can survive flooding, which makes rice more reliable yields and will prevent food shortages in poor nations that rely on said crops for staple food.

GMOs are also creating spider-goat hybrids.  Why? So we can splice web production into the goat’s udders.  We’ll be able to spin huge quantities of spider silk, enough to reliably create spider silk cables and ropes, which have more tensile strength than steel.

I for one am glad I live in a time where watermelons aren’t giant tomato abominations

The issue with GMOs is that corporations like Monsanto are patenting GMOs and arresting indigenous farmers for cross pollinating with they seeds. But there is nothing dangerous about the science.

^This.

The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.

this should be in the largest letters we’ve got, plastered everywhere until it gets through people’s heads:

The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.

Did you just say spider goats? He said spider goats. Did you all read him talking about spider goats or am I hallucinating

corporations also make GMO seeds that will only produce infertile plants so they can keep farmers (particularly in the global south through “aid”) reliant on their products, big agro/hort is real and it’s bad folks

horo:

the beauty of appalachia never fails to astound me, ft. the tiny cows in the distant pasture

geographicwild:

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Photo by @aliciariusphoto These Sphynx cats may outwardly look edgy, aggressive, or a bit odd – however, their personalities are actually in fact bright, joyful, very affectionate and quite social. #Wild #Cat #Cats #Nature #Animals #Sphynx #Wildeyesa
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3d_m7pggCY/?igshid=1m299sqke6ygf

everythingfox:

Fox + Doggo

classichorrorblog:

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors
Directed by Chuck Russell (1987)

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 8 September 1972, 60 black sailors aboard the USS Constellation during the Vietnam war gathered in a secluded barbershop on board. They each shared stories of the endemic racism in the navy: being denied promotions, stuck in lower paid positions and subjected to harsh discipline than white sailors. They would later form an organisation called the Black Fraction, which would be responsible 56 days later for the first mass mutiny in the history of the US Navy. This is our podcast about the Vietnam-era rebellion in the US Navy and Army: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e10-the-gi-resistance-in-vietnam-part-1/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1206171482901333/?type=3

lithicc:

kropotkindersurprise:

October 2019 - Ecuador’s government has fled the capital of Quito and moved to the city of Guayaquil, after tens of thousands of indigenous people marched on the capital, joining ongoing anti-austerity by workers and students protests there. Highway blockades, strikes by transportation workers and mass demonstrations have turned into violent protests after brutal police crackdowns, with hundreds arrested, dozens injured and at least two people dead after police opened fire on crowds besieging the parliament. Protesters have burned army vehicles and the national police headquarters, and taken dozens of police hostage.

The protests started when the Ecuadorian government made a deal with the IMF for billions in loans in exchange for harsh austerity measures and neoliberal reforms, which included scrapping fuel subsidies, doubling the price of fuel overnight. [video]/[video]/[video]/[video]

This is the October style. get your balaclava and some friends and cause some mayhem and drive the government into exile

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 15 September 1954, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - American volunteers in the Spanish civil war - were brought before the Subversive Activities Control Board to respond to attempts to classify them as a subversive organisation. This is some of what Crawford Morgan (pictured), one of its members, said: “Being a Negro, and all of the stuff that I have had to take in this country, I had a pretty good idea of what fascism was and I didn’t want no part of it. I got a chance to fight it there with bullets and I went there and fought it with bullets. If I get a chance to fight it with bullets again, I will fight it with bullets again… I felt that if we didn’t lick Franco and stop fascism there, it would spread over lots of the world. And it is bad enough for white people to live under fascism, those of the white people that like freedom and democracy. But Negroes couldn’t live under it. They would be wiped out… From the time I arrived in Spain I felt like a human being, like a man. People didn’t look at me with hatred in their eyes because I was black, and I wasn’t refused this or refused that because I was black. I was treated like all the rest of the people were treated, and when you have been in the world for quite a long time and have been treated worse than people treat their dogs, it is quite a nice feeling to go someplace and feel like a human being.”
In this podcast, we tell the story of the Spanish civil war: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/spanish-civil-war-podcast/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1211313902387091/?type=3

imthecomfortoftheirworld:

dietmar gross

bomberqueen17:

probablyasocialecologist:

Neglected pastures thrive under solar panels

Solar panels could increase productivity on pastures that are not irrigated and even water-stressed, a new study finds. The new study published in PLOS One by researchers at Oregon State College finds that grasses and plants flourish in the shade underneath solar panels because of a significant change in moisture. The results bolster the argument for agrovoltaics, the concept of using the same area of land for solar arrays and farming. The idea is to grow food and produce clean energy at the same time.

Oh! I actually heard about this!! At the Sheep & Wool Festival there was a woman shearing a sheep, so we took Farmkid over to watch, and the woman started telling us that this was a new breed of sheep they were trying to get to catch on in the region, and they were pretty decent for wool but the big thing that they were useful for was grazing under solar installations, because they were small but not super into jumping. Some sheep are too large to fit under the panels, and some are too vertically-inclined and like to climb on them, which can damage them, so these particular sheep were in the sweet spot of being smallish but not great jumpers.

Apparently that’s where the money is. Because otherwise you have to mow the grass under the panels, and ride-on lawn mowers don’t fit. (If you don’t keep the foliage down, it can take over the field and shade your solar panels.)

Shepherds can make most of their profit by hiring their flock out to keep a solar installation grazed down, and it’s extra-great because solar installations tend to have good forage under them.

(what does it say about the state of america’s foodways that you otherwise often can’t make money on raising livestock except in horrifying confinement operations, however? the woman was absolutely clear that the sheep didn’t break even on wool or meat, but if you could get solar gigs you were golden. Isn’t that sad?)