#best agriculture

[solarflare-s]

fancy fella (pickleworm moth, diaphania nitidalis)

[little-doggy-girl-kisser]

all this soil shit in fantasy high is overlapping with my soil topic in school.

Like yeah the real villain is fucked up soil

Did the owners of Loam farm have a monoculture? were they tilling the soil? THE PESTDICIES!!!!1 cause yeah that will get you some evil ass soil

[clodiuspulcher]

today im thinking about malaria in ancient rome.

about the fact that P. falciparum (the most dangerous kind of malaria) was likely endemic at least from the 2nd century BC onward that Galen said semitertian fevers (P. falciparum infections) were more common in Rome than anywhere else in the Roman Empire that the most severe manifestations of P. falciparum (quotidian fevers + cerebral malaria) were most common in babies and young children, an epidemiological observation that indicates the transmission rate of P. falciparum was extremely high in Rome that Quintus Serenus said there was no Latin word for semitertian fevers (they used a transliteration of the Greek, 'hemitritaeos') because "no one, i think, could have named it in our language and mothers would not have wanted to"

[internetarchivistyt]

SUP OF THIS GRAIN MY BRETHREN

[werewolf-femboy-maid]

I will make the best food in the world.

This is not just a promise, this is a threat.

It is my goal to make people weep as soon as they try a bite of my food.

The regenerative farming will provide the highest nutrient density and flavor concentration, resulting in superior product when combined with my cookery.

[supercantaloupe]

im cooking a chicken thigh for dinner which i got from the farmers market yesterday, the guy who sold it to me said it would be "the best chicken i'll ever eat" we'll see about that

[incorrect-play-it-by-ear]

This week on Play It By Ear Book Club we are together going to figure out what the hell the plot was in heartbeat hospital.

[solvicrafts]

Seeing the reactions of the outside world (particularly people here in the USA) to Namibia's famine crisis is absolutely sickening. It's taking every bit of self control I have not to absolutely tell some people off whenever I see the subject come up.

"They should be pursuing long-term solutions instead of killing elephants and zebras."

Yeah, uh, no shit, asshole who has probably never missed a meal in their life. They do need long-term solutions. Duh. But in the meantime, people are starving.

"There's too many humans in the world, we need to de-populate."

Okay, and? So what? We're not talking about just numbers, we are talking about people that are already in existence and need help. You can whine and moan all your little edgelord self wants about how ~overpopulated~ humans are, it does not change the fact that these people EXIST. They are here, right now, alive and suffering.

"They brought this on themselves. Back in MY day, I saw commercials on the TV about donating to feed starving African kids. So what did they do with that money, huh?!"

Would you like some directions to the nearest active volcano? I hear humanity is overpopulated.

[fingertipsmp3]

Nothing more frustrating than having a dream set in an amazing book series and then waking up to find out it doesn’t exist. Guess I’VE gotta write this now

[rajdhaniassociates05]

[fatehbaz]

It is always tempting to begin with problems of definition. It is particularly so for this project as there is little consensus regarding what, exactly, constitutes a desert. Throughout the twentieth century, scientists have struggled to arrive at a comprehensive definition, but today deserts are generally defined in terms of rainfall (along with temperature and humidity), even though parts of the Kalahari and Australian arid regions have a rainfall that exceeds the standard definition of 10 inches a year. Aridity – the rate at which water evaporates – is often more important than rainfall. Ultimately, scientific definitions of the desert are relative to the regions being classified.

The geologist Michael Welland remarks that ‘how you choose to define a desert depends very much on why you wish to do so in the first place’. [...]

In the environmental sciences, meanwhile, there is much debate about ‘desertification’, meaning the degradation or loss of arable land due to deforestation, intensive farming, drought, climate change and other factors. Dryland researchers David Thomas and Nicholas Middleton [...] [argue] that the use of the term ‘desertification’ since the 1970s to talk about soil degradation, drought and the misuse of land draws on [...] European cultural fears about the colonial periphery and non-European forms of agriculture.

The term itself originated in the late nineteenth century in French colonial North Africa [...]. The absence of a universal definition of what a desert is in the strict physical sense is thus particularly notable in the history and politics of the idea of desertification. The forced settlement of nomads has a long history in colonial policy, and a certain image of the desert as a place of nefarious rootlessness has accompanied this. The French sought to settle nomads not only for perceived ecological benefits but because it was part of their mission civilisatrice. Today, it is recognised that one of the major causes of land degradation in Africa has in fact been ‘the conversion of nomadic pastoral societies to sedentary lifestyles with a focus on raising cash crops instead of subsistence ones’. In an excellent recent book, Hannah Holleman suggests, following climate researcher Joseph Romm, that ‘dust-bowlification’ is a more apposite term for the intertwined processes of drought and soil erosion that have marked the intensification of capitalist colonial agriculture since the late nineteenth century, the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s being a regional manifestation of much larger global processes affecting the viability and productivity of soil. Whatever its shortcomings, however, the term ‘desertification’ continues to be used widely to denote problems of drought, overgrazing and deforestation, which have been acknowledged as major problems occurring on every inhabited continent, with some accounts suggesting that arable land is being lost at a rate of 12 million hectares a year.

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Text by: Aidan Tynan. “Desert Desire.” The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics. 2020.

[sidewalkchemistry]

Kids, man, we used to be in awe of animals. They used to make us laugh and giggle and smile. They made us pretty happy. There was a time in our lives when we would do just about anything in the world to make them happy as well. To protect them from cruelty. To, at least, acknowledge the cruelty that they were receiving. If somebody was mean to us in front of an animal when we were little, we would have screamed and cried. And that's because we all used to understand right from wrong when it came to the treatment of animals, until somebody told us and taught us differently. You better believe someone told us to ignore their suffering. To mock and excuse their pain and their misery. To make fun of their very existence.

- Gary Yourofsky in "The Best Speech You'll Ever Hear"

[watermelinoe]

and see how dialogue isn't possible when you block someone who doesn't even disagree with your movement, just with certain premises behind it? see how it doesn't allow for practicing harm reduction or nuance? when i'm struggling to get myself to eat anything at all, which can last for days or weeks at a time, what i do eat needs to count. sorry, i'm eating the cheese stick because it's the only thing that sounds palatable and it gives me seven grams of protein. sorry there's no room for women with eating disorders and deficiencies because "eat less animal products" isn't good enough when your ideology values non-human animals more than women's health. but of course the burden falls on women to make ourselves tired and weak while the male-led industry overproduces and overconsumes. at least you stayed true to your logically inconsistent, female-socialized emotion-based beliefs and allowed for zero compromise! there's no way your airtight ethical philosophy has blatant logical flaws at the slightest nudge of critical thought, the people who point out fallacies are just heartless!

[homosexualcitron]

IM HOME IT WAS SO FUN... the manga merch guy wasn't here tho i miss you </3 i did 1 ride and i think it's enough sensation for the year (<- it was a rly little one.. probably the softer among the ones open for adults)

I also did a horror virtual reality stuff it was fun (0 tolerance to horror but love the aesthetics :3)

I'm so tired rn i'm gonna sleep for 3 days byyye

[allylovesyaxx]

the animal walk 🌞🐾💕

@bigballsacksammy