#Dairy Farm

[usnatarchives]

Quit buttering us up! 🧈

If aliens had landed in the United States any time between 1880 and 1940 they would quickly be convinced that we were a nation at war with butter substitute. Oleomargarine is everywhere in the records of Congress during this period. The Committees on Agriculture, Manufacture, and Ways and Means were all involved. Dairymen were sending their representatives petitions defending butter and decrying the fate of the nation if this interloper called “oleo” were to become a permanent fixture in American households.

C.C. Buell, a dairy farmer from Rock Falls, Ill., convinced some fellas of “at least average intelligence” at the Grange picnic to sign this petition saying there ought to be a law against oleo because “its continued use may be the cause of pestilential diseases in our large cities.” Nothing says hot button issue like fake butter!

Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to the Committee on Agriculture during the 46th Congress (HR46A-H2.4); Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, RG 233; Washington, DC.

[equinesandeducation]

The plus side of getting up so early; gorgeous sunrises 😍

[engelart]

“Old Dairy Barn after a rain‘,  c1992 by Norman Engel

[comicdiaries]

Getting to tour an Organic Valley farm made a huge impression on me, as you can tell!

[caavakushi]

How Growing Up On A Dairy Farm Inspired The Creation Of A Billion Dollar...

[brokentrafficknight]

Do you do just the emblems? Cuz I'd love to see different ozpin ship emblems like Second Chances (Ozpin x Glynga)

I mostly mess around with the emblems when I'm arranging the characters, otherwise I never really keep saved versions of them

That and I'm kinda bad at making them

[somethingfromnothingsuddenly]

Winchester, California

[thegreatmystery]

sky hi Holsteins

[qipsir]

Agricultural Activism

Disclaimer: this post is intended to inform, not convince/persuade

Was reading a post from @wobblydev and saw this specific panel.

I don't know if many of my current friends know, but something my f*ther and I used to passionately be a part of was Anonymous For The Voiceless. Though now, I'm too disabled to be out on the streets with the Cube of Truth and I'm too aware of psychology to agree with the in-your-face approach to their activism, that doesn't mean there aren't important things I've learned from being a part of it.

Mass farming of anything is bad and there are empathic, health-based, and environmental reasons that factory farming is awful, and so many more. These are just a few points I'd like to share to get things started.

I'm gonna break this up into multiple posts because there's just so much information

Hyperlinks to posts

Bonus post about emissions and population statistics

Environmental Impact

Relationship between Humans and Agriculture

Healthcare and Sanitation

Ethics/The Morality Argument (aka the reason why most everyone hates vegan activists cause they never stop preaching this [Trust me, I'm tired of it too. There are so many other ways to have this conversation].)

[frogandcog]

Watercolor of Mesman Farm in Skagit County, Washington. Painting 2 of 4 in a set titled "Magic Skagit Farms." 2024.

[starstruckkittenglitter]

Image by wirestock on Freepik

[jokingluna]

[equinesandeducation]

Farm week is upon us! Which means we work on the Faculty Farm for a week, helping with all the work and getting a glimpse of what it takes to run an organic dairy farm. It also means starting the work day in Utrecht at 7:00, so setting my alarm at 4:30 for the coming week 😅💪🏻

[sitting-on-me-bum]

The Pachycormus fossile.

Trove of Jurassic-Era Fossilized Fish Discovered on an English Dairy Farm

(Photo: Dr. Dean Lomax)

Another fossilized fish complete with soft tissue.

[doteau]

"You said you were getting just the eggs!"

[comicdiaries]

Expect many more comics about this trip to come because I learned so much!