#agriculture culture

[psychologeek]

Ppl saying "it's a Jewish tradition to keep going" =

Ppl saying "it's a black tradition to work in Fields"

(Guess what wasn't legal for those groups?)

Also, The Wandering Jew is an antisemic trope.

So much of Judaism and Jewish laws and culture is based on land and agriculture. We have this complicated calender and schedule about trees and land, from Shmita (1/7) to Ibur Shana (7/19) to Yovel (1/50) and 3 main holidays related to harvest, gather, Bikurim; we celebrate the first blooming trees of Israel - even ppl who's never been there, who never met anyone who's been there, celebrate it.

We have different prayers depends on the season of the year, and we start praying for rain 40 days after our main holidays - to ensure visitors would make it home safely. We know that 2,000 years ago ppl prayed that there won't be floods in the Sharon area, so "The Sharon's ppl homes wouldn't become their graves".

"ועל אנשי השרון היו מתפללים, שלא יהיו בתיהם קברותיהם"

(not an accurate cite)

I'm just.

Sometimes I really can't understand.

(And part of me wonder: why do I even bother?)

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

My random thoughts about milk.

I know most people think it's ridiculous but honestly milk and the various alternatives to it are a clear sign of capitalism and exploitation. Not many people think about or care about the widespread exploitation of cattle to harvest milk for everyday use, even then people dismiss alternatives to this industrial scale exploitation for a wide variety of reasons often fed by capitalist propaganda and misunderstanding. It really shows the capitalist realism that grips most people, to them they can't understand or really conceive of a system that doesn't entail widespread exploitation of other living beings and they look down on others who can see and try to achieve systems that don't involve it. Just my random thoughts.

[ranahan]

Random thought:

Do you ever think Mandalorians might have practiced slash and burn agriculture? And that one incarnation of Kad Ha’rangir, the god of destruction and growth and change, might have been a fertility and agriculture god?

Slash and burn agriculture can be sort of a seminomadic life, since jungle soils are actually very thin and the cleared plot only gives good yields for a few years, after which the group has to move on and clear a new plot.

[mythologypaintings]

The Harvest or Ceres and Triptolemus

Artist: Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1725–1805)

Date: 1769

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Description

Few French painters of the eighteenth century were more indecisive than Lagrenée, who was capable of shifting from the flowery allegory of Harvest (1769) to the gray classicism of The Visitation (1781). The prolific Lagrenée listened to everyone, and was alternatively treated by Diderot with harshness for his lack of ideas and extolled for the "charm" of his Mercury, Herse and Aglauros. This made Lagrenée a particularly indulgent director of the French Academy in Rome from 1781 to 1787.

[witchofthesouls]

So I've probably been re-reading too many 'Humans are Space Orcs' stories (sue me, they're fun and I won't apologise, lol) but I realised that the bots probably haven't ever seen a Human hunt before? Persistence hunting but we're also adaptive too.

Or go completely berserk on adrenaline - heedless of whatever physical damage comes their way.

How most of us can communicate silently with subtle body language cues, even if not consciously realised.

Cute aggression? Or that the first thing they thought of when seeing new alien fauna was...can we eat that?

I don't know. I just like the thought that Humans can be terrifying too - especially to other organic species as well.

To me, this is absolutely hilarious because it really depends on the kind of human the Cybertronians get. I think all iterations of the human cast were basically city folk. None of them were deep rural.

So just imagine if one of the humans had moved from an area that doesn't even have the numbers to qualify as a town, and now a 'bot guardian is reeling from the revelation that their human buddy goes out of their way to get fresh roadkill and dress it themselves for butchered meat instead of going into the magical, liminal space of infinite (and very much prepared) foodstuffs that is a supermarket. That's pure scavenger behavior that they didn't expect, especially in a different liminal space where there's no signal and miles of pure wilderness.

That bot will go through a wide range of emotions. Particularly the stages of grief over their tiny omnivore, especially after they get into a huge argument with a highway patrol officer over a struck deer... because they also wanted to take it. Like, that is pure human behavior, right there.

Same idea for fishing and hunting for invasive species and as population control. Those are wild concepts to modern Cybertron. Like their tiny squishy buddy goes out of their way to actively hunt animals as a means of 'doing their part' and 'enjoyment' since humans take over as the natural predator of overpopulated and/or invasive species? What?

Human: "You can eat it or compost it. They used to be really popular pets. Exotic, you know? Until people realized they were way over their heads with shitty research and impulse buys, so instead of taking it to another store, an aquarium or zoo, or even another person because that's a legit hobby... they decided to 'free Willy' it and throw it into the local area."

Autobot: "... I have so many questions, and I have no idea where to begin. Let alone voice any of it. Like what the actual fu-"

And because humans tend to vibe with similar individuals, then the 'bot guardian will get a crash course in homesteading, foraging, and food preservation to boot. Along with '3 AM shower thoughts' over domestication and working animals to go with the subtle cues or wordless commands between man and animal.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Using current technology that consumes a lot of energy to grow animal tissue in a lab, cultured meat’s emissions can be as high as those of beef burgers while costing up to 40,000 times more. By replicating beef, the health impacts of lab-grown meat are similarly bad. Although costs and emissions could fall as production processes become more efficient, this would require substantial investment and technological advancements. Public investment in both lab-grown meat and ultra-processed plant-based replacements may not be justified considering their relative impacts. Readily available alternatives are affordable and do not call for new technologies or product development.

3rd December 2024

[nordfjording]

there's a new carbon footprint calculator out adjusted for the nordics and its great and all (lists me as about half of the average norwegian) but it also pinpoints how hard it is to make these accurate because the "best tips for how YOU can improve!" are very much along the lines of "take the train!" no trains in my region. "stay at your vacation destinations longer and fly less!" i don't go on vacations. "eat less meat!" i buy 1 pack of salami per month. "buy fewer eggs!" i haven't bought an egg in several years. "take the bus to activities!" i don't have regular activities.

[allegorypaintings]

Allegories of Agriculture and Commerce

Artist: Francisco Bayeu and Subías (Spanish, 1734-1795)

Date: ca. 1791

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

[theaftersundown]

With everything going on, especially in the USA, I can't help but feel like this clip from Little House on the Prairie is as relevant as ever. It might not be the exact same issues or even on a massive scale but I think we can all understand what he means. His anger, his passion for his community and home. We need this energy now.

"Why waste your time being honest when you could make so much more money being dishonest?"

the quote of the century. hits even closer to home that he is a farmer and they are damn near being eradicated even today... just a thought. protect the farmers, we would have nothing without them.

Season 4, Episode 2 titled "Times of Change"

please, don't spread hate because of this video or my opinion. if you don't agree that is fine but don't be hateful, thank you.

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Bacchus

Artist: Simeon Solomon (British, 1840-1905)

Date: 1867

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Birmingham Trust Collections, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Description

Bacchus was the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, equivalent to the Greek god Dionysus. He is often seen with vines of grapes with him. Dionysus was said to be the last god to join the twelve Olympians. Supposedly, Hestia gave up her seat for him. His plants were vines and twirling ivy.

[thesilicontribesman]

Iron Age Quernstone Fragments from Dragonby, The Museum of North Lincolnshire, Scunthorpe

[theartingace]

Idea: orchard harvester saddle. More of a standing platform with a scooter handlebar for the rider where the centaur can hand things up and down. (playing Farming Simulator is making me crave more peaceful/agricultural world building; there's already so much Warlike WB around, it needs some balance)

(also, eat like a horse vs eat like a bird, horse metab is high efficiency but a lot of it just due to net size, imagine that efficiency applied to refined grains and breads. Centaur diets would be less-per-weight than humans, although not necessarily by much due to the metabolic needs of sapient brain and foretorso)

Ohhhh I absolutely love this and absolutely think it should be a thing. I've been thinking more about the inherent benefits of centaurs in an agrarian society and more and more the borders of the Merchant city has been expanding outward towards the edge of Rider territory with enormous matriarchal farm towns that feed most of the surrounding societies so this would fit right in to that kind of lifestyle! And sounds so useful! One doing the moving and loadbearing, one doing the climbing and picking.

And I agree, war shapes societies undeniably but so many worldbuilders forget that trade, craft and industry shape cultures and societies just as much! It's definitely a topic i could GO OFF about haha, I have major exports and interrelated trade agreements drawn up between ALL my current societies 😁

(also absolutely, the use of refined grains and bread was a huge part of my initial thoughts about how centaurs could survive feeding that big horse body with comparatively small/limited human teeth. The efficiency of processed grain and grass fibers would be SO necessary to their digestion and overall survival!)

[mythologypaintings]

Bacchus

Artist: Simeon Solomon (British, 1840-1905)

Date: 1867

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Birmingham Trust Collections, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Description

Bacchus was the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, equivalent to the Greek god Dionysus. He is often seen with vines of grapes with him. Dionysus was said to be the last god to join the twelve Olympians. Supposedly, Hestia gave up her seat for him. His plants were vines and twirling ivy.

[demigod-of-the-agni]

i'm finding it so surprising that no one (yes including me) hasn't really done any exploration into pavitr's village life. it's in his (comic) lore, it's where his story is first started out, and lowkey it never gets talked about, neither by the audience nor marvel. we're gonna change that >:)

no but i completely understand why we as the audience mightn't've delved into this route before. most of us online folk don't have *that* much experience working on the land. i'm not judging anyone for it, it's just something i've noted. on that note i'm pointing fingers at marvel themselves for brushing over such an important facet of the character- he's got all the hallmarks of regular peter parker spider-man, but where peter's stories oft highlight his origins and the different experiences he has as someone from the suburbs, the same isn't done for pavitr!! there are no flashbacks to his time as a village boy after he moves into mumbai!!! there is no discussion regarding any experience in his youth!!! (there is exactly only 1 flashback in 2023's SMI #5 and it is only 6 panels long talking about helping those in need). that whole portion of his life is just NOT THERE and i can't keep living life like this.

truth be told the only reason i'm even making this post at all is because i got a little too inspired by the stories my parents have told me. we've got tales of parents disobeying their parents and playing out in the streets 'til nightfall and all that. but hearing my parents talking about the joy they've managed to find between hours of tending the crops, going to school, catching the buses, avoiding spooky marshes and abandoned houses, catching rainwater and racing paper boats, making sculptures out of clay and twine, catching fish in the wells and butterflies between bushes, being present in communities and village gatherings...there is so much more to life than we realise.

i'm genuinely not talking about cottagecore aesthetics when i say i think working on the land might've healed something in me. sure a bunch of the things that i do now might definitely be squandered, but different parts of me *could* have flourished if i was tilling and such. many of the core parts of me would've remained, but i'd probably be putting my energy in a bunch of other things (like tilling and such, obviously. and then crying over harvests). the second-generation immigrants yearn for the fields (it's me, i'm the second-generation immigrant).

FURTHERMORE (with uppercase and in bold, that's when you know i'm being serious) if i were to take a more sociopolitical look at things, i think pavitr being personally connected to the land in some way, shape or form can actually provide insight into the livelihoods of modern agriculture and the farming industry. obviously centred on desi farming practices, but also on the global scale, if that can be allowed. he can shed light on a bunch of issues!!! he can fight for the rights of farmers, of those who tend to the land, and the members of the community!!!!

i don't know! i don't know. i just think spider-man india can provide a beautiful avenue to explore and appreciate the livelihoods of farmers and rural and/or indigenous communities. he can also highlight societal issues working against them and shed light on ways we can better everyone's circumstances while preserving these unique experiences and cultural practices. i don't know. i just think it's neat.

pavitr prabhakar, if only marvel would let me into spidey hq i'd do you SO MANY FAVOURS i'd bring in a new age of spidey india comics fr fr i'd also blast nick lowe into the sun so in fact spider man would be free forever from stupid idiots

[war-in]

Tobacco field on a summer night in Eastern North Carolina.