i squared: sh*t just got real

Anime belongs in the trash and so does you’re waifu. 27

[acti-veg]

As the link between animal agriculture and climate breakdown becomes clearer, if anything, we are seeing more ordinary people falling over themselves to defend an industry that is destroying our planet, polluting our communities, exploiting animals and human workers. This is especially worrying to see from leftists, in spaces that are supposed to be progressive. I promise you, you do not need to spend your time greenwashing leather and wool, repeating blatant industry propaganda about veganism, 'regenerative agriculture' or whatever other buzzword they're using to sow doubt this week. The industry already spends millions of your dollars to lobby our politicians and influence public opinion; they don't need you to do it for free.

Vox – The greenwashing of wool explained

New Republic – The comforting lie of climate-friendly meat

Guardian – Big Beef’s climate messaging machine

The Breakthrough – Is Feedlot Beef Better for Environment?

International Journey of Biodiversity – Misinformation on Science of Grazed Ecosystems

Food Climate Research Network – Grazed & Confused

Science 2.0 – The regenerative ranching racket

DeSmog – A guide to six greenwashing terms

Truthdig – The backlash to plant-based meats

Independent – Meat & dairy industries downplaying role in climate crisis using tobacco tactics

Guardian – Meat & dairy lobbyists turn out in record numbers at COP28

Greenpeace – How Big Agriculture is borrowing Big Oil’s playbook at COP28

Guardian – Plans to present meat as ‘sustainable nutrition’ at Cop28 revealed

Guardian – Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored

Guardian – How UN food body played down role of farming in climate change

QZ – The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet

The Times – Red Tractor farms more likely to pollute environment

Influence Map – European meat & dairy industry weaken EU’s climate policies

The Grocer – Meat Industry lobbying behind cultured meat bans

Food Unfolded – Truth, tactics and the mist of meat lobby science

Business Green – Climate lobbying: Are meat and dairy lobbyists the ‘new merchants of doubt’?

[mochi-moss]

Me desperately trying to plan out my new horizons island 

Another aspect of capitalism that is having a light shone on it right now is that for profit zoos, aquariums, etc. should not exist.

I keep seeing stories about animals held in zoos who ‘miss’ having visitors (x, x). About a zoo being so unequipped to deal with not having a steady stream of paying visitors they are slaughtering the animals in their care (x). 

If a person or business can’t provide adequate care and socialisation for the animals in they are responsible for then they should not have these animals in the first place. 

Yes lockdown is an unusual situation but it’s certainly not unprecedented. There were similar issues raised when the foot and moth outbreak happened 20 years ago (x) and it is nothing but irresponsible that businesses that turn massive profits every year weren’t prepared to deal with this.

Just as governments should have been prepared, so should any organisation that is responsible for the health and well being of others, human or not. 

[eyezehuhh]

I'm fucking howling!!!🤣🤣🤣

[whatthehellisgoingon9374-deacti]

Pride

Envy

Gluttony

Greed

Lust

Sloth

Wrath

[gravlites]

This is my contribution shitpost to the fandom. ฅ(*ΦωΦ*) ฅ

[prettynerdieworks]

GODDAMMIT HECTOR

[iguanamouth]

an-eighth-of-faith submitted: My aunt’s wizard lizard. You know what to do. (P.s. I love you very much)

[patterns-in-static]

YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

[lukia26]

…you know what to do.

[silbat-deactivated20191019]

you know what to do

[black-quadrant]

[livekindlyco-blog]

There’s nothing like rolling around in a pile of leaves! 

[screwyouandrew]

Eels are absolute gods among animals.

for example:

You’ve got your nice beautiful speckled eels

You have wiggly poke-their-little-heads-out-of-the-sand friends!

Look!!!! This one looks like a puppy!!!!

You even have friends with fearsome teeth!! (feat. shrimp)

And they look funny from the front!!!!

But do you want to know the supreme kings among eels?

Ribbon eels.

Let me demonstrate.

aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

*screams multiply*

*blood curdling screams of the damned*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

thank you for your time

[dinuguan]

[untitledplacebo]

A 1 carrot ring

[justinpie]

Blocked

[spacebelongstome]

A lot of pigs are really sweet and don’t deserve to be compared to cops

[transpunkspacejunk]

be christ-like this christmas. gather a crowd and inspire them to anarchism. beat a politician with a whip. help out your local sex workers. preach equality.

[animalsandtrees]

A new species is evolving before scientists’ eyes in the eastern United States.

Wolves faced with a diminishing number of potential mates are lowering their standards and mating with other, similar species, reported The Economist.

The interbreeding began up to 200 years ago, as European settlers pushed into southern Ontario and cleared the animal’s habitat for farming and killed a large number of the wolves that lived there.

That also allowed coyotes to spread from the prairies, and the white farmers brought dogs into the region.

Over time, wolves began mating with their new, genetically similar neighbors.

The resulting offspring — which has been called the eastern coyote or, to some, the “coywolf” — now number in the millions, according to researchers at North Carolina State University.

Interspecies-bred animals are typically less vigorous than their parents, The Economist reported — if the offspring survive at all.

That’s not the case at all with the wolf-coyote-dog hybrid, which has developed into a sum greater than the whole of its parts.

At about 55 pounds, the hybrid animal is about twice as heavy as a standard coyote, and her large jaws, faster legs and muscular body allow her to take down small deer and even hunt moose in packs, and the animal is skilled at hunting in both open terrain and dense woodland.

An analysis of 437 hybrid animals found that coyote DNA dominates her genetic makeup, with about one-tenth of its DNA from dogs, usually larger dogs such as Doberman pinschers and German shepherds, and a quarter from wolves.

The animal’s cry starts out as a deep-pitched wolf howl that morphs into higher-pitched yipping — like a coyote.

Her dog DNA may carry an additional advantage.

Some scientists think the hybrid animal is able to adapt to city life — which neither coyotes or wolves have managed to do on their own — because her dog ancestry allows her  to tolerate people and noise.

The coywolves have spread into some of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Boston and Washington — using railway corridors.

The interbreeding allows the animal to diversify her diet and eat discarded food, along with rodents and smaller mammals — including cats, which coywolves eat skull and all — and they have evolved to become nocturnal to avoid humans.

The animals are also smart enough to learn to look both ways before crossing roads.

Not all researchers agree the animal is a distinct species, arguing that one species does not interbreed with another — although the hybrid’s existence raises the question of whether wolves and coyotes are distinct species in the first place.

But scientists who have studied the animal say the mixing of genes has been much faster, extensive and transformational than anyone had noticed until fairly recently.

“(This) amazing contemporary evolution story (is) happening right underneath our nose,” said Roland Kays, a researcher at North Carolina State.

Watch this report on coywolves.

Raw Story

[thewinterotter]

THIS SHIT IS SO WILD AND IT’S ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING. If you’d like to watch the entire Nature documentary referenced in that “watch this report” link, you can find the whole thing on Youtube. It’s a terrific documentary and a really interesting look at an animal most people don’t even seem to realize exists. The extent to which coywolves have adapted to urban life and the ways in which they’re very distinct from the species they’ve sprung from is pretty incredible.

[hoardofhyperfixations]

Ultimate Doggo

[gahdamnpunk]

I feel seen

[platycryptus]

Cecropia moth caterpillars, Hyalophora cecropia. 7/15/18.

These aren’t wild caterpillars; they were being reared outdoors inside a mesh bag tied to a tree and I took these photos while moving them to a new branch.

Rearing caterpillars outdoors is risky due to the danger of predator attacks (i lost many of my polyphemus caterpillars this year to a bear), but usually results in larger, healthier specimens. Fortunately, this year all 23 of my cecropia caterpillars that I put outside made it to cocoons safely. The largest caterpillar weighed 25 grams!