#Importance & of Agriculture

[sweet-potato-42]

kills me inside every time people accuse tubbo of being a tory despite the fact he never was

he has had shitty opinions but he wanst a tory

a tory is someone who supports the conservative party in the UK. Some people who don't know what it means decide to use it as just a bigot. Tories are bigots but not all bigots are tories

IN GENERAL a political party will have ideas regarding social stuff, economic stuff, foreign policy and more. You cant just randomly give someone a label based on their social opinions isnce htere are countless political movements with overlapping ideals

like if people want to (justifyingly) criticize some shit hes said in the past at least use correct terms and quote it properly

#tubbo #twitter discourse #neg #The dumbass calling him a tory on twitter recently decided to contineu and the arguments are so dumb #like apparently he once said hed rather have space travel developement than have agricultural developement #which i 1000000% bet was just a random comment made because hes a fucking nerd and space travel is cool and agriculture isnt #but that person decided to go and extrapolate it to he thinks space travel is more important than feeding homeless people???? #wildest shit ive ever seen #IDK i see hes said dumb shit and im not surprisde since likes hes a cis white young dude from a well off family in south england #but he has shown growth and far mroe positive stuff than negative #This man could NEVER call himself a Hasan fan (and has for a long time) if he was a fucking Tory

[themoonking]

i have an issue with lore olympus's depiction of persephone's "goddess of spring" thing. first of all she shouldn't even be the goddess of spring yet, as spring shouldn't even exist yet. but whatever rachel doesn't understand / care about the myths she’s adapting what else is new.

but also i don't quite understand why, especially in the beginning, rachel chose to make everyone (including persephone) act like "goddess of spring" is like.. an unimportant job? like she's "just" the goddess of spring? does rachel not understand how fucking important the end of winter and the coming of spring would be to a society that relied heavily on agriculture for their food?

idk it seems like rachel thinks spring is just flowers and it shows :-/

#mediterranean diets have always been heavily plant based agricultural deities woudl have been a major deal to ancient greek society #so in a world where persephone has always been the goddess of spring #and doesn't just trigger the coming of spring but actively makes spring happen with her powers #she would be pretty fucking important to the greeks! #i speak #anti lore olympus

[judasvibe]

it's like when americans have some kneejerk reaction against anyone pointing out negative consequences of immigration like if you mention that it has effects on the price of housing and real estate in ways that affect the low/middle income segment hardest, the response is automatic like 'wahh dont be xenophobic we have enough space! build more affordable housing! it literally doesn't matter!'

and you know, sure, i'm willing to believe in a country with a large and not very densely populated territory, this can buy some time to stave off a housing crisis (but that's only throwing the ball down a couple generaitons)

but the same people, when told that european countries (much smaller, much more densely inhabited than the USA!) facing very high migratory pressure actually have severe housing crises and shortages the answer is still the same 'waahh you're xenophobic, just build more!!'

like at some point you must admit it's all philosophical posturing, there is no basis in material reality and the physical limitations of how many people can be packed into an area and still live decently

#in my country the territory is very small and therefore every time we build housing on what was formerly agricultural terrain #we further increase our already high dependency on food imports

[girderednerve]

i have once more Read a Book !

the book was jim morris' cancer factory: industrial chemicals, corporate deception, & the hidden deaths of american workers. this book! is very good! it is primarily about the bladder cancer outbreak associated with the goodyear plant in niagara falls, new york, & which was caused by a chemical called orthotoluedine. goodyear itself is shielded by new york's workers' comp law from any real liability for these exposures & occupational illnesses; instead, a lot of the information that morris relies on comes from suits against dupont, which manufactured the orthotoluedine that goodyear used, & despite clear internal awareness of its carcinogenicity, did not inform its clients, who then failed to protect their workers. fuck dupont! morris also points out that goodyear manufactured polyvinyl chloride (PVC) at that plant, and, along with other PVC manufacturers, colluded to hide the cancer-causing effects of vinyl chloride, a primary ingredient in PVC & the chemical spilled in east palestine, ohio in 2023. the book also discusses other chemical threats to american workers, including, and this was exciting for me personally, silica; it mentions the hawks nest tunnel disaster (widely forgotten now despite being influential in the 30s, and, by some measures, the deadliest industrial disaster in US history) & spends some time on the outbreak of severe silicosis among southern california countertop fabricators, associated with high-silica 'engineered stone' or 'quartz' countertops. i shrieked about that, the coverage is really good although the treatment of hawks nest was very brief & neglected the racial dynamic at play (the workers exposed to silica at hawks nest were primarily migrant black workers from the deep south).

cancer factory spends a lot of time on the regulatory apparatus in place to respond to chemical threats in the workplace, & thoroughly lays out how inadequate they are. OSHA is responsible for setting exposure standards for workplace chemicals, but they have standards for only a tiny fraction—less than one percent!—of chemicals used in american industry, and issue standards extremely slowly. the two major issues it faces, outside of its pathetically tiny budget, are 1) the standard for demonstrating harm for workers is higher than it is for the general public, a problem substantially worsened during the reagan administration but not created by it, and 2) OSHA is obliged to regulate each individual chemical separately, rather than by functional groups, which, if you know anything at all about organic chemistry, is nonsensical on its face. morris spends a good amount of time on the tenure of eula bingham as the head of OSHA during the carter administration; she was the first woman to head the organization & made a lot of reasonable reforms (a cotton dust standard for textile workers!), but could not get a general chemical standard, allowing OSHA to regulate chemicals in blocks instead of individually, through, & then of course much of her good work was undone by reagan appointees.

the part of the book that made me most uncomfortable was morris' attempt to include birth defects in his analysis. i don't especially love the term 'birth defect'—it feels cruel & seems to me to openly devalue disabled people's lives, no?—but i did appreciate attention to women's experiences in the workplace, and i think workplace chemical exposure is an underdiscussed part of reproductive justice. cancer factory mentions women lead workers who were forced to undergo tubal ligations to retain their employment, supposedly because lead is a teratogen. morris points at workers in silicon valley's electronics industry; workers, most of them women, who made those early transistors were exposed to horrifying amounts of lead, benzene, and dangerous solvents, often with disabling effects for their children.

morris points out again & again that we only know that there was an outbreak of bladder cancer & that it should be associated with o-toluedine because the goodyear plant workers were organized with the oil, chemical, & atomic workers (OCAW; now part of united steelworkers), and the union pursued NIOSH investigation and advocated for improved safety and monitoring for employees, present & former. even so, 78 workers got bladder cancer, 3 died of angiosarcoma, and goodyear workers' families experienced bladder cancer and miscarriage as a result of secondary exposure. i kept thinking about unorganized workers in the deep south, cancer alley in louisiana, miners & refinery workers; we don't have meaningful safety enforcement or monitoring for many of these workers. we simply do not know how many of them have been sickened & killed by their employers. there is no political will among people with power to count & prevent these deaths. labor protections for workers are better under the biden administration than the trump administration, but biden's last proposed budget leaves OSHA with a functional budget cut after inflation, and there is no federal heat safety standard for indoor workers. the best we get is marginal improvement, & workers die. i know you know! but it's too big to hold all the same.

anyway it's a good book, it's wide-ranging & interested in a lot of experiences of work in america, & morris presents an intimate (sometimes painfully so!) portrait of workers who were harmed by goodyear & dupont. would recommend

#if anyone knows about scholarship that addresses workplace chemical exposure #& children born with disabilities through a disability justice lens please recommend it to me! #booksbooksbooks #have reached the point in my Being Weird About Occupational Safety era where i cheered when familiar names came up #yay irving j. selikoff champion of workers exposed to asbestos! yay labor historians alan derickson & gerald markowitz! #morris points out the tension between workers - who want engineering controls of hazards (eg enclosed reactors) #& employers who want workers to wear cumbersome PPE #the PPE approach is cheaper & makes it even easier to lean on the old 'the worker was careless' canard when occupational disease occurs #i just cannot stop thinking about it in relation to covid. my florida library system declined to enforce masks for political reasons #& reassured us that PPE is much less important than safety improvements at the operational & engineering level #but they didn't do those things either! we opened no windows; upgraded no HVACs; we put plexi on the service desks & stickers on the floors #& just as we have seen covid dangers downplayed or misrepresented workers still do not receive useful information about chemical hazard #a bunch of those MSDS handouts leave out carcinogen status & workers had to fight like hell to even be told what they're handling #a bunch of them still do not know—consider agricultural workers & pesticide exposures. to choose an obvious & egregious example.

[winterf4iryy]

#i hope i word this correctly but persepectives like this are incredibly important #ive seen lots of architects speak out about this #as well as people with backgrounds in agriculture #and healthcare professionals #who clearly see what israel is doing and HOW they are doing it and what they’re targeting specifically #it is sinister #it’s calculated #it is textbook genocide #palestine #free palestine #gaza

[southernsolarpunk]

Last year farmers in sc had problems with peach production due to unstable weather conditions in the late winter/early spring (they had to import peaches from California to sell) and so far it’s looking similar this year

What the fuck is this?

#misc #only posting bc it’s important to keep an eye on agriculture now with climate change

[ndostairlyrium]

Kerry and Cullen for A1?

no, we're not going into "maybe later" territory because they're not into that - not with each other at least 👀

My dear, thank you for this option ;; the height gap gives me life 💛

The Meme

#ask meme #dragon age #hawke #kerry #cullen rutherford #fereldan husbands #ndo sta l'art tag #I really should develop that outfit with the rose theme. I described it with words but I've never drawn it because I'm afraid of failure :' #they'd both have the same background if cullen didn't leave to become a templar #but the west hills airling is a place for wine and spirits hence why the roses #did u know that roses are vital for cultivating grape vines? #I wrote some paragraphs on cullen and roses and how they're a perfect match in terms of symbolism lol #on a surface level we're all roses basically. soft and delicate but with a distinct layer of self defense and stuff like that #on a practical sense tho roses are the sacrifical lamb of agriculture #they're the first line against parasites that come for grapes #they're treated gorgeously and nurtured for then being sacrificed in favor of something more important #that's why you can see rose bushes in vineyards #they're there for a purpose and their purpose is to be shields - or canaries in coal mines <<' #...u already knew I'm not normal about this guy lol #sorry for rambling 🙏

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[impossible-rat-babies]

Me banging my fists we have GOT to start teaching agriculture in schools I s2g

#like bahugugugig is it normal for baby horses to be up and running and spunky at 2 days old? YES. YES OMFG #that is a PREY ANIMAL #if they don’t they would be dead omfg #also I think learning about agriculture is important to understanding where our food comes from both in meat and other products l #maybe there would be less issues with violent veg/an/ism if there was more education going on #not saying it wouldn’t happen but often fear comes from a place of misunderstanding or not knowing in general #owen talks

[ibijau]

35k and we're done for today, although I cheated and skipped a whole ass scene bc due to undercooked world building, I don't know what sort of mind game tests kitsune use to decide who is or isn't allowed inside their kingdome. Shameful of me, I know.

anyway, now it's time to try to decide what sort of god the Magpie King's unknowingly estranged husband would be. Partner suggested something to do with water, but I'd also like him to be linked to oaths, and also he's supposed to be part of a trio of are thematically close, so it's time to browse wikipedia for idea

#jau rants #it's an agriculture society so water would be somewhat important #and I do want him and his bros to be very important gods otherwise the magpie king would have already destroyed his nemesis among them #but I also kinda dig the idea of a justice theme for them like revenge/oaths-contracts/legal division of types of justice u know??

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

From my backward-facing seat, I saw a long stone wall on the crest of a cliff. “The Wall,” John Berger writes, “is the front line of what, long ago, was called the Class War.” Walls, fences, hedges, and ditches were all used to mark the boundaries of enclosed land, so that sheep could be kept there, or some other profit could be pursued. Enclosure is how nearly all the agricultural land in Britain came to be owned by less than one per cent of the population. In “The Making of the English Working Class,” the historian E. P. Thompson writes that enclosure was “a plain enough case of class robbery, played according to fair rules of property and law laid down by a parliament of property-owners and lawyers.”

#class war #land enclosure #agriculture #private property #understanding land enclosure is so important to understanding capitalism #!!! #article #now

[propalitet]

Godbless I hope tourists don't come this year 🙌🙌💪

#Are we gonna suffer? Sure but maybe we can then convince the morons leading this country that agriculture is important!!! #op

[detectivehmmmm]

I have to day that studying microbiology is so chaotic. Like there is such little structure to what I can learn in a single class. One minute, I'm learning about water treatment, the next, the immune system. Tomorrow? Oh, I'm learning about photosynthesis! There is no consistency with microbes. They are EVERYWHERE!

#microbiology #science #biology #chaos #microbes are literally everywhere though #that's why I have to learn about so many neiche things that seem unrelated #like #we use microbes to treat water and waste #they are also important for agriculture #AND they are important for antibiotics #what im saying is that to be a microbiologist you have to be a jack of all trades

[thelonebookman]

"Take only photos, leave only brood pits."

#critical role #critical role spoilers #critical role liveblog #cr spoilers #c3ep70 #if only Ruidis had agricultural import restrictions like Australia #the use of invasive species for attempted Theocide

[girderednerve]

The AP found that U.S. prison labor is in the supply chains of goods being shipped all over the world via multinational companies, including to countries that have been slapped with import bans by Washington in recent years. For instance, the U.S. has blocked shipments of cotton coming from China, a top manufacturer of popular clothing brands, because it was produced by forced or prison labor. But crops harvested by U.S. prisoners have entered the supply chains of companies that export to China.

While prison labor seeps into the supply chains of some companies through third-party suppliers without them knowing, others buy direct. Mammoth commodity traders that are essential to feeding the globe like Cargill, Bunge, Louis Dreyfus, Archer Daniels Midland and Consolidated Grain and Barge – which together post annual revenues of more than $400 billion – have in recent years scooped up millions of dollars’ worth of soy, corn and wheat straight from prisons, which compete with local farmers.

...Incarceration was used not just for punishment or rehabilitation but for profit. A law passed a few years [after the formal end of the convict-leasing system in 1928] made it illegal to knowingly transport or sell goods made by incarcerated workers across state lines, though an exception was made for agricultural products. Today, after years of efforts by lawmakers and businesses, corporations are setting up joint ventures with corrections agencies, enabling them to sell almost anything nationwide.

Civilian workers are guaranteed basic rights and protections by OSHA and laws like the Fair Labor Standards Act, but prisoners, who are often not legally considered employees, are denied many of those entitlements and cannot protest or form unions.

“They may be doing the exact same work as people who are not incarcerated, but they don’t have the training, they don’t have the experience, they don’t have the protective equipment,” said Jennifer Turner, lead author of a 2022 American Civil Liberties Union report on prison labor.

#this whole article is good read the whole thing #it's extremely important that reporters & activists continue to bring to light the horrific abuses of prison labor #& that we all understand that none of this is new - angola / louisiana state prison is immense & has a vast bloody history #the largest agricultural producer in the state of texas in the 60s was the department of corrections #& as this article points out a rising reliance on incarcerated labor is one response #to the labor shortages caused by unchecked covid deaths + restrictive immigration policy #the whole of american incarceration & labor policy is evil. blood on the leaves & blood at the root

[pokeweed-enthusiast]

I mentioned the other day doing some deep dives on pesticide impacts. Here's some links to some cool studies I found, I chose links that are less scientific-study sounding for accessibility. The first one has a link to the actual study embedded, and I think is one of the most important since it connects pesticide usage to decreased crop yields.

Originally pesticides with higher toxicity got a lot of backlash for their MUCH understated impacts on honeybees (as they should), but I really appreciate how these highlight other species which are equally important ecologically and economically in different roles.

We're seeing a massive decline in insects in recent years. And its causing a rise in pest species of insects, which in turn leads to increased insecticide usage. If the cycle can be broken and insects in general are allowed to recover, I think many more farmers could significantly reduce insecticide usage because biological pest control would become a more robust option. But there's such a culture of taking the easy way out and decimating insects in fields to protect profits, that so many people don't think about the wider impacts on local environments and other species life cycles. And in turn don't think about how their actions could be negatively impacting their economic situation.

Also implicated in this is the over use of herbicide which has significantly reduced the biodiversity surrounding farm edges. Now more than ever farm edges host invasive and higher populations of weedy pest plants because they have 1) gained herbicide resistance from overspraying and 2) they face reduced competition because native and beneficial plants have been wiped out. The weeds in turn can infest farm fields easier due to proximity and abundance at the edges. And this all of course has a massive impact on insects, as many don't have habitats to live and feed like in the past.

#Using the term pest here as it applies to agriculture #No plant or insect is inherently a pest but there's species that are particularly detrimental in large populations #I was going to organize this all more but I'm just gonna ramble in between classes instead haha #Agriculture #herbicides #pesticides #agroecology #Tagging agroecology because I think understanding where we go wrong in conventional ag is important to agroecology