The kitchen at the epicenter of the major E.Coli outbreak in Calgary, Fueling Minds, is a full-service catering company with a "strong commitment to sourcing organic and locally grown seasonal ingredients."
Fueling Minds website: https://t.co/3meObqwgQ5 https://t.co/Ug8Tk3Hxqv
— The Food Professor (Dr. Sylvain Charlebois) (@FoodProfessor) September 12, 2023
Spoiler Alert!
"Bioethicist", S. Matthew Liao: In order to tackle "climate change", humans should be genetically modified to be intolerant to meat.
"If we eat less meat, we could significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Now, some people would be willing to eat less meat, but they… pic.twitter.com/0kM4I8mnf0
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) September 5, 2023
The Pronoun Game
Via the CBC, a tale of pronouns, vomiting, and very niche woe:
Again, as so often, one has to ask – exactly which player in this drama is doing the misgendering? The unnamed presenter who sees a young woman named Julia and refers to her as she; or the young woman named Julia who expects to be perceived as something other than she is? Indeed, as something that doesn’t exist.
The kind of young woman who tells us, with an air of triumph, “I had been thinking about my pronouns daily for over two years.”
As one does, when one’s mental wellbeing is not at all in question.
If It Were Straightforward, Anyone Could Do It
Transgender Reddit, where the fun never starts:
Trans men are getting their posts deleted for saying “guys.” It’s insane.
Subjective considerations
Why doesn’t everyone just fake reality on my behalf? All the cool kids are demanding it these days.
Can we change the very structure of reality for everyone?
No, but some will try to pretend along with the crazies that they share their plethora of idiotic fantasy worlds that are increasingly more impossible to keep track of with hundreds of made up pronouns and “identities”. pic.twitter.com/d0vWM3tc4J
— Dr. Syed Haider (@DrSyedHaider) July 9, 2023
The Narcissism Detector Is Working Perfectly
Resumes including ‘they/them’ pronouns are more likely to be overlooked, new report finds.
Because Kennedy’s Disease is a Racial Indicator
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Boulder County allowing farmers to grow GMOs on open space after organic utopia didn’t materialize
Schlagel knows full well that farming public land in Boulder County is performative, visually and politically. As he wheels the John Deere around the cornfield he harvested in November, third-floor patients from UC Health’s Longs Peak Hospital on the east side of Longmont can watch him make the dust fly. He’s been willing to work within that constant judgment of Boulder County consumers.
But he’s not willing to lose his family farm raising crops that people won’t pay for.
“It’s hard for people living in the city of Boulder, and even on the western side of Boulder County, to understand what real agriculture even looks like,” Schlagel said. The crop bans were “a mandate from somebody that we’re going to transition to something better that is very naive. Because if there was something better, we would already be there.”
Now, after years of debate and voluminous series of reports and public comment, Schlagel and other Boulder County lease farmers can plant what they want. The farmers convinced Boulder County leaders that they couldn’t survive while adhering to prohibition of genetically engineered corn and pesticide coatings using controversial neonicotinoids.
Some Boulder County residents are still angry. They feel a new slate of Boulder County Commissioners sold them out after years of detailed public debate and a consensus to slowly restrict engineered farming methods. Based on staff recommendations and their own research, the commissioners voted 3 to 0 in December to reverse the scheduled bans and restore choice to the leasing farmers.
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Organic packaged salads tied to E. coli outbreak in 6 states
Organic Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
There is no independently-produced evidence in the scientific literature that organic foods offer consistent nutritional or safety advantages over conventional foods. Some claimed advantages, like higher levels of antioxidants or omega-3 fatty acids or phenols, may not be advantages at all, say scientists. Other differences may be the result of whether a cow was grass fed or grain fed and have nothing to do with whether it was raised organically. Claims that organic crops are more “nutrient dense” have not been consistently supported in independent studies.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Two Arctic Fish Are Breaking the Rules of Genetics
Laurie Graham, a molecular biologist at Queen’s University, in Ontario, and the lead author on the paper, knows she’s making a bold claim in arguing for the direct transfer of a gene from one fish to another. That kind of horizontal DNA movement once wasn’t imagined to happen in any animals, let alone vertebrates. Still, the more she and her colleagues study the smelt, the clearer the evidence becomes.
Nor are the smelt unique. Recent studies of a range of animals—other fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals—point to a similar conclusion: The lateral inheritance of DNA, once thought to be exclusive to microbes, occurs on branches throughout the tree of life.
Sarah Schaack, an evolutionary genomicist at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, believes these cases of horizontal transfer still have “a pretty big wow factor” even among scientists, “because the conventional wisdom for so long was that it was less likely or impossible in eukaryotes.” But the smelt discovery and other recent examples all point to horizontal transfers playing an influential role in evolution.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
How A Man’s Unborn Twin Fathered His Son
The Sound Of Settled Science
Research risks ruining a treasured leftist slur;
Neanderthals possessed the capacity to hear, process and produce human speech, according to a new survey combining CT scans and computer models.
For the study, published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers used computed tomography scans to build 3D models of the ear structures in Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and Neanderthal relatives unearthed at Atapuerca, an archaeological site in Spain.
My friends, it’s time to talk reparations.
We, Your Digital Overlords, and Comrades of the Woke Left will DETERMINE what the Truth is!
Look what the #TwitterBastards are doing to @realDonaldTrump:
Math Is Hard
It was my understanding that there would be no gene.
The Nature of Human Nature
A Sam Harris podcast with Robert Plomin about the role that DNA plays in determining who we are.
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
The bright yellow rapeseed flowers that adorn the British countryside have largely disappeared after crops this season failed.
The flaxen dandelion – used to make rapeseed oil – is a common sight on farmland in late spring but has suffered a downturn partly due to flea beetle larvae infestations, Farmers Weekly reported.
Farmers have struggled to control the pest after the EU banned neonicotinoid seed treatments in rapeseed crops six years ago.
A number of hectares of the crop completely failed, and any others that made it through the tough winter months then had to contend with the flea beetle – leading to a very small rapeseed crop
“Organic” is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Following neonicotinoid insecticide ban, UK canola growers ask government to cover crop losses
Since the ban on neonics, the UK area of oilseed rape has progressively fallen year on year.
What’s more, following an epidemic of cabbage stem flea beetle last year, many growers are choosing to move away from the crop [in 2020]— leaving some saying that the future of the crop is now at crisis point.
This was reflected in the recent AHDB Early Bird survey which revealed that the UK forecast area is down 32% on 2019, and could pose a real threat to production, explains Chloe Lockhart, combinable crops advisor at the NFU.
“Organic” Is The French Word For “Let Them Eat Cake”
Genetic Literacy Project: French court rules sweet grapefruit, barley, wheat and 2500 crops, developed by mutagenizing seeds with toxic chemicals or gamma rays yet often sold as organic, are GMO, must be labeled and cultivation banned