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Roundup

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Thoughtstylings
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...ntly used in agricultural application. An epidemiological study of Ontario farming populations showed that exposure to glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, nearly doubled the risk of late miscarriages. Seralini and his team decided to research the effects of the herbicide on human placenta cells. Their study confirmed the toxicity of glyphosate, as after eighteen hours of exposure at low concentrations, large proportions of human placenta be...

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Paleo Grift

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Thoughtstylings
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...ontains a kind of racism that assumes that this way of living is easy, that it doesn’t involve skill or, as in the case of California native peoples what looks to westerners like hunting and gathering is actually a form of agriculture, just not a form that looks like European farming (See Kat Anderson’s Tending the Wild for more on that thesis). I guess it’s not surprising that our tech bros executives would embrace short work weeks and fictitious...

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The Great Water Conservation Grift

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Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Water and Power, Water Conservation
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...the Governor of California to describe one of the most powerful forces in farming in the state — a billionaire family that owns something like 300 square miles of Oligarch Valley land, has its own toxic corporate farm worker town, and, from their ridiculous mansion in Beverly Hills, has been on a destructive quest to eviscerate the state’s river system and plunder its aquifers, helping fuel a mass extinction in the San Francisco Bay Delta…all so...

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Stirred, Not Shaken

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Biodynamics, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...ertilizers where catching on, Steiner proposed a radical return to organic farming. Biodynamic agriculture combines common sense practices such as composting with strange esoteric rituals. The oddest aspect of biodynamics involves the “preparations”, a specific set of substances made of manure, silica and herbs that are buried in cow horns, bladders and skulls. After a few months they are unearthed, ritually stirred and applied to soil and compost...

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Weekend Linkages: Summer Heat, Oaks and QAnon

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Saturday Linkages
...e via @aic_ancient. 100 British chairs When Old Oaks Fall Nabhan: Food and Farming Crisis Requires Both Science and Faith Is Geotagging on Instagram Ruining Natural Wonders? Some Say Yes California’s yoga, wellness and spirituality community has a QAnon problem Uber and Lyft Donated to Community Groups Who Then Pushed the Companies’Agenda California dodges worst of historic Pacific Northwest heatwave, but long-duration heatwave still likely inland...

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