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i’m gonna start a new blog
I made a new blog and I’m refollowing people right now. It’s me for real lol.
Also if I’m not following you and you want me to, like this post c:
This happened… If anyone wants the new blog send me a message or an ask, or comment here. I’ll still keep this one up for a while but I won’t be active on it anymore. ♥
i’m gonna start a new blog
I made a new blog and I’m refollowing people right now. It’s me for real lol.
Also if I’m not following you and you want me to, like this post c:
This happened... If anyone wants the new blog send me a message or an ask, or comment here. I’ll still keep this one up for a while but I won’t be active on it anymore. ♥
i’m gonna start a new blog
I made a new blog and I’m refollowing people right now. It’s me for real lol.
Also if I’m not following you and you want me to, like this post c:
i’m gonna start a new blog
The Trump administration is looking to build tent cities around Texas to shelter the increasing number of migrant children being held in detention as part of President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy on immigration.
I would share this on facebook but literally none of my friends would give a shit. I don’t even need you guys to acknowledge it here, just like... be aware of it. Call your congresspeople. Idk.
Libertarians are probably in nirvana right now
OK BUT THE THREAD??? Tumblr this is what kills me, you screenshot an amazing Tweet but don’t link to the source or UNROLL THE THREAD! So then I have to go read Twitter myself and lose my entire goddamn mind. Anyway!
here’s the OP and here’s the followup:
There was another amazing thread on how fucked the Domino’s pothole-filling squad was, but this was from the same poster so it was easy to find. The other thread was about the concept of “prevailing wage” and how Domino’s was surely paying their workers minimum, meaning the job wasn’t going to skilled tradesmen and is further aiding the slippage of the former middle classes into poverty, but now I can’t find it. Anyway! There’s some underpinnings for that punchline.
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Farming systems need to fit into their natural and social environment. Sometimes we describe this as a socio-ecological niche.
Caption;
In a minute.
So, taking it that you said you live in Arizona and “your family has a farm in Chihuahua,” A quick congratulations are in order. You’re an absentee landowner! You’re right at the peak of farming’s social pyramid. Living the dream.
So you probably don’t participate in the day-to-day management, you just collect checks. Pretty common situation for absentee landlords. From that distance, it’s understandable that you have a poor grasp on water, land, and how they play out in various types of agriculture.
But let’s take a step back.
Lots of cultures have used low or no meat diets. The Ganges valley, ancient Egypt, China, much of early Europe, ect.
Notice anything in common there?
They’re all very, very wet. Plants that are edible for humans grow readily.
They also had intense hierarchies where elites could just tell the lower classes they weren’t allowed to eat meat-whether via religious teachings, custom, or just straight-up economic exploitation to where animal protein was unattainable. But that’s a whole different discussion.
On the other hand, lots of cultures have used mostly or all animal diets.
E.G. The Bedouin, Mongols, Maasai, Inuit, ect.
What do these have in common? They’re in places that are either very dry or very cold. Either the plants that grow are very sparse & tough, or none at all.
Humans can only digest specific types of plant matter. We need tender stems, leaves & fruit; enlarged seeds, or energy storing roots.
The entire rest of the plant is inedible for us. Stalk, branch, dry leaves, ect.
And without intense irrigation, the only plants that grow in dry areas are entirely made of things that humans can’t digest. They’re almost entirely cellulose. Tough stalks, fibrous leaves covered in wax and hair, thorns, ect.
That’s why we call these areas ‘scrub’. The only use humans can make of the natural vegetation is to scrub pots.
But…cows, sheep, goats, horses, bison, deer, camels & other ruminants can digest all of it.
That’s what those 3 and 4 chambered stomachs are for. These animals GI tracts are fermentation chambers full of microflora that break long, tough cellulose molecules down into sugars and fatty acids that the cow can use.
We can’t do that. We eat straw, we just poop out straw.
That’s why people living in deserts, scrub & dry grasslands aren’t vegetarian. They’d starve. They kept close to the animals that can digest what grows there; ruminants.
(The oceanic food chain that Inuit & other maritime peoples are looped into is a whole ‘nother discussion.)
Failure to recognize the role of local environment in diet is a major oversight in the vegetarian community at large, so again, no personal blame here.
Traditional vegetarian societies are trotted out to showcase that low/no meat diets are possible. But it’s done w/o recognition as to why ‘those particular’ societies did it, and others did not.
Paying attention to local environment is a huge part of sustainability, and yet sustainability movements don’t always do so well at that.
We can also fall short by failing to recognize that for dry regions, the bottleneck in productivity isn’t land, it’s water.
As an absentee landowner, you may or may not be aware of how much irrigation water it takes to grow vegetables in a desert. Math time.
Let’s start w. cows. Best figures for cow carrying capacity in landscape similar to Chihuahua are for dry part of CO. Double that for Chihuahua’s longer growing season, and 10 cows would need about 73 acres to live on (wild scrub w no irrigation.)
Cool, so we don’t have to irrigate to feed those cows. All we have to do is give them drinking water. How much? A cow needs about 18.5 gal/day, so 10 of them for a year would need about 67,000 gallons.
67,000 gallons is a decent amount of water.
Now let’s look at how much it takes to grow vegetables on that same land.
Most plant crops need about an acre-inch of water per week.
For the non-farmers and absentee landlords following along, an acre-inch is just how much water it takes to cover an acre of land 1” deep.
It’s about 27,000 gallons.
An acre of crops needs that every single week.
Chihuahua’s got this amazing long growing season. So let’s say a veggie, grain, soybean or other plant protein farm in Chihuahua’s got crops in the ground 40 weeks out of the year.
73 acres x 40 weeks x 27,000 gallons/week = 79 MILLION gallons of water.
That’s a thousand times more water.
It takes a thousand times more water to grow an acre of crops for human consumption, than it takes to grow an acre of cow on wild range.
Again, as an absentee farm owner you may or may not be aware already. But for audience at home, most of Chihuahua’s irrigation water comes from the Rio Conchos.
The river’s drying up so hard that it’s the subject of a dedicated WWF preservation project.
“But that’s not a fair comparison. An acre of crops can feed 10x as many people as an acre of cattle.”
Exactly. A crop-only diet can feed 10x as many people. But it takes 1000x as much water.
In places where there’s limited land and a surplus of water, it makes a lot of sense to optimize for land, so there, grow & eat crops.
And in places where there’s a lot of land and limited water, it makes sense to optimize for water, So there, grow & eat ruminants.
It’s really interesting to me that the conversation around vegetarianism & the environment is so strongly centered on assumptions that every place in the world is on the limited land/surplus plan.
You know what region that describes really well? Northwestern Europe.
In many ways, viewing low/no meat diets as the One True Sustainable Way is very much a vestige of colonialism. It found a farmway that works really well in NW Europe, assumed it must be universal, and tries to apply it to places where it absolutely does not pencil out.
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Anyone who has studied corporate crime in the US can tell you that the level of crime committed by the wealthy, both in absolute amounts and in damage caused, vastly outorders crime committed by the poor; it’s simply a matter of which crimes are persued by the state
We had a lecture from the Director of Federal Legislative Affairs at Families Against Mandatory Minimums yesterday, and as a thought experiment-type thing she laid out the details of a real life criminal case for us and asked us what we think the ideal punishment for it would be, regardless of current laws. Everyone in the program (who range from me and a member of Norway’s Socialist Left Party to an intern in Ted Cruz’s office) got into an argument over it, with suggestions ranging from a year probation to four years in jail + four years probation.
After we had discussed it for a while, the speaker was basically like “what a good debate! By the way, he was actually sentenced to 25 years in jail.”
That’s a pretty good way of driving home how fucked our legal system is.
A horrible irony is that, even when including the crime of unauthorized border crossing, most undocumented immigrants commit less crime in the US than the average citizen. Do you know how many millions of Americans (especially white and wealthy Americans) have gotten off with a slap on the wrist for a Class B misdemeanor or more?
What you said, at least the way you said it, doesn’t make sense.
when including the crime of unauthorized border crossing, most undocumented immigrants commit less crime
That would be 100%, no?
No, as a significant number of undocumented immigrants came across the border legally and simply stayed when their visas expired. But furthermore, my point was about crimes-per-person, not percentage of those who have committed a crime. Undocumented immigrants commit crime at significantly lower levels than citizens, so even with an absolute floor of one crime-committed-per-person, undocumented immigrants still commit less crimes than the average legal citizen (which is far above one)
