Man, I hate hate hate HDR. It strips images of all depth, contrast and subtlety. These pictures suffer especially, because they have less mystery about them than the originals would have! So pointless.
So these guys first of all thought that it was OK to let this mouse be eaten alive, and then just stood and watched while it killed the snake? These guys are doubly sick.
I wouldn't even think of walking up to a stranger with a disability or disfigurement and asking them "what happened". Zollo should be ashamed of himself.
I know this report isn't really concerned with organic food, but the rising price of food in general means that the fad for organic food is more environmentally unfriendly, selfish, irresposible and wasteful than ever. How can we justify using seven times the amount of fertilizer and double the acreage for the same-size crop as a conventional farm? How can we justify driving small-scale farmers, who cannot afford to purchase the extra land or the extra fertilizers required to 'go organic', out of business? How can we justify using deliberately inefficient farming techniques that allow high proportions of the total crop to perish in the field? How can we justify this perverse fetish for inflated food prices when we have to ability to produce food cheaply, safely and efficiently, and in higher yields than ever, thanks to modern farming techniques?
Organic food is not better for you than conventionally-produced food and is worse for farmers and the environment. The reason it costs more is because of the increased cost of fertilizers (they cost more to buy, and the farmer has to buy more of them per acre), but also because it's such a big fad and the producers can get away with the higher price tag. Much of the world is starving, and the West is actually finding ways of deliberately inflating the price of food by producing it 'organically'. It's absurd, and it's obscene.
Styrofoam does not biodegrade at all. It degrades into smaller and smaller pieces over time, like rocks turning into sand, and finds its way into the food chain, where it begins to poison animals that eat it in error. There exists no bacterium currently capable of metabolising styrofoam or plastics, and it may be hundreds of thousands of years before one evolves. By which time, the planet will be choked with plastic and styrofoam.
Beware of plastics that advertise themselves as degradable. There are various kinds of bin liners, sandwich bags and freezer bags on the market and indeed they are just that. Merely degradable. All that means is that they break down into smaller pieces of plastic quicker than regular plastic, meaning that they poison smaller creatures more quickly than non-degradable plastics do. And when the plankton dies, we're all screwed.
Plait says (in his original video) that the 'roid will miss us by hundreds of thousands of miles. While by no means close enough to do any of the things claimed by the perpetuators of mythinformation about this 'roid, it's worth noting that on the scale of the solar system, that's a pretty close shave.
Organic food is not better for you than conventionally-produced food and is worse for farmers and the environment. The reason it costs more is because of the increased cost of fertilizers (they cost more to buy, and the farmer has to buy more of them per acre), but also because it's such a big fad and the producers can get away with the higher price tag. Much of the world is starving, and the West is actually finding ways of deliberately inflating the price of food by producing it 'organically'. It's absurd, and it's obscene.
If only somebody could make Doonesbury funny, but I suspect it's beyond help.
Beware of plastics that advertise themselves as degradable. There are various kinds of bin liners, sandwich bags and freezer bags on the market and indeed they are just that. Merely degradable. All that means is that they break down into smaller pieces of plastic quicker than regular plastic, meaning that they poison smaller creatures more quickly than non-degradable plastics do. And when the plankton dies, we're all screwed.