I feel the same about the shit recently uncovered in the farming industry in the southern part of my state…
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This book
made me ill. Same story.
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That looks interesting! Thanks.
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Short, depressing excerpt:
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Don’t forget that agribusiness only took on the tomato because people wanted to eat them. And they wanted them all year round and they like them to all look the same. The consumer has to take some of the weight on these issues.
It is a new, freshly assembled bike. Pulver coated. This would mean stripping the current layers, and re-coating. All in all, already a complicated thing to to…
I asked the person in the shop which took my order to discuss replacement of the frame, in a standard colour. I’ve seen the standard colours, they are ok. I will see what the producer answers.
I had an eye at this particular companies bikes for the last 15 years. Also because of their aesthetics. I wanted to buy one 12 years ago, and have been saving up since then. I decided in 2019 that it was a now or never. I ordered in 2021, because I just couldn’t before. When it took so long, regrets and worries crept in and went again.
Damn.
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You haven’t mentioned, but may I ask: what brand of bike?
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i feel like if it wasn’t tomatoes, it’d be some other food or product
ideally there’d be strong labor laws and the money to enforce them, including requirements built into trade deals
it’s still we the people who are responsible, yes. but not as consumers of some particular good. more our lack of care ( or influence maybe ) on policy. people believe in the “free market” when we need to believe in “fair markets”
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This is critical. It’s not enough to imply that "if we weren’t eating tomatoes . . . . " Those kind of employers will get away with whatever we let them get away with, regardless of the food, phone, or fashion. And, honestly, people pressure is not that effective when Agribusiness owns a huge chunk of what we eat, and owns a huge chunk of the state legislatures.
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In fact, I bet you it still is on top of them. If businesses are simply making decisions based on where the money is, well…at this point consumers have a hell of a lot less than investors, don’t they.
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[dives into bunker]
Seriously, though - you can get amazing bespoke foil jobs for cars and motorbikes, so why not for a bicycle?
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For decades, I have been telling people to plant a garden and get small. The shit that is passed off as “food” in grocery stores is horrifying.
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This essay is from 2021 but ICYMI, it is a deep dive into why why why for the love of Jah humanity is in this pandemic mess in the first place: novelty.
This edition of Insight is a guest essay by Dylan H. Morris, a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLA who studies how the evolution of RNA viruses is shaped by ecological processes within and between hosts. Dr. Morris brilliantly unpacks something we hear all the time but is rarely explained in its full and profound implications: for humans, SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus. And that distinction means so much.
Been a while since I stopped by this thread, I see:
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There is just too much there for me to unpack.
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Enough people purchased the preservative to attempt suicide that the company’s algorithm began suggesting other products that customers frequently bought along with it to aid in such efforts.
But when family members left behind and others alerted Amazon to the deaths and to the danger of the sales, the company declined to act.
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Ugh. This is horrible. But Jeff Bezos has continually shown he cares only about one person - Jeff Bezos…
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Just an awful awful hate crime, as they all are but this one was particularly sadistic. Reading the details of it could be triggering.
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Why not add another one? Omicron, more highly transmissible HIV, and now
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