EvOlUtIoN iS a BiTcH

Apples werent always sweet. They manipulated humans into eating and cultivating them by growing more sweet over time.

tricky tricky plants. do not trust.

Whaaaaat dogs? We are bros and go so far back. Come on now

how can you tell someone is mentally ill?

they don't have a dog

Relevant:



https://notthebee.com/article/costco-removes-coconut-milk-from-its-shelves-over-allegations-of-forced-monkey-labor-and-i-need-2020-to-end-right-now

we had guinea fowl to serve as watchdogs, but they were too noisy for me to handle and were teaching the hens bad wandering habits
so they went into the stew pot
we got a brahma rooster to watch over them now, but he's a young buck yet and not very protective
just had a goshawk hit him yesterday, but he shrugged it off like a little tank

Seen this. Not sure if this is ok or if this discrimination against Asians using their animals to farm things.

This post was edited by Skinned on Oct 30 2020 06:31am

Brahma's are for sure my favorite breed we've raised, had buff and black orpingtonds, leghorns, leghorn mixes, barred rocks, and some barnyard muts.

so many hawks, foxes, coons, coyotes, etc around me. have only lost 1 bird tho luckily. lost more to sickness over the years than predators.

Raccoons are the number one killer here. My neighbor is building a chicken coop right now, and I warned him to raccoon proof it.

One of my friends has as a donkey that she said will stomp anything to death that doesn't belong there. Apparently that is expressly what those are for.

I hear the worse stories from my friends and colleagues in rural ohio. One older nurse frield told me a story about how she finally shot the wild dogs that ate her grand daughter's kittens and she was glad she got the bastards. I was like damn, different constellation of problems where I live lol. I don't worry about wild dogs at all. We don't even have stray dogs in my city anymore.




Read Botany of Desire for four interesting case studied about a plant interacting with a human for radical results. He picked the Potato, Apple, Tulip, and Marijuana, and how they became what they are through human interaction and the problems that went along with it. Potatoes: monoculturing leading to the irish potato famine, and how we are setting ourselves up for that today by growing only one kind of potato (golden russet, for fast food french fries lol) and detailed the arms race between the bugs and the people designing weapons to protect the potatoes. Apples talked about the formation of America, the historical Johnny Appleseed who was wild, and that apples were planted everywhere so that people could make booze anywhere they were pretty early on. Tulips went straight Dutch for their insane economic collapse when Tulips themselves more or less because the base unit of valuation of goods and commodities. And marijuana focused on the rapid evolution of the plant itself due to the US Drug War and the increased potency of the plant due to having to go underground into clandestine labs and sterile environments with completely controlled light and nutrition as opposed to just growing outside on a warm hill side....and it is a completely different plan now.

A good read that will only take about a weekend.

This post was edited by Skinned on Oct 30 2020 06:46am