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To answer your question: yes, I know Honey Boo Boo. Indeed.

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:44:58 -0400

To answer your question: yes, I know Honey Boo Boo. Indeed.

anoncentral: Here is one mind fuck for you. Yay dmt…

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:46:44 -0400

anoncentral:

Here is one mind fuck for you.

Yay dmt…

Anonymous: This girl subjected herself to what animals go through when testing...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:02:28 -0400

Anonymous: This girl subjected herself to what animals go through when testing...:

anoncentral:

This girl subjected herself to what animals go through when testing soaps, moisturizers, perfume/colognes etc. Loreal being one of the worst. She did this in front of a busy mall. Took some courage that is for sure. It’s easy to avoid these products too btw… just read the label and make…

Jesus…

tltty: instead of storing blood the uterus should just store snacks & like once a month you’ll...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:54:27 -0400

tltty:

instead of storing blood the uterus should just store snacks & like once a month you’ll get a bag of chips or something

Nature fail.

keatsandnewton: It was a better time… Lord Tarvu in...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:52:10 -0400

keatsandnewton:

It was a better time…

Lord Tarvu in heaven… bring it back.

Oh Damon.

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:56:24 -0400

Oh Damon.

ruinskape: alexandrakent: doctorbeifong: A truly MINDBLOWING...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:04:08 -0400

ruinskape:

alexandrakent:

doctorbeifong:

A truly MINDBLOWING lesson on the origin of American Southern accents.

Oh my god fucking stop.

Why did I not learn this in my intro to linguistics class?

this is pretty cool but im still gonna make fun of reid for saying yall

Excellent.

davereed: srecord: Monsanto spends millions to keep public in...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:13:06 -0400

davereed:

srecord:

Monsanto spends millions to keep public in the dark & silence dissent

October 12, 2012

An intense advertising blitz, funded by Monsanto Co and others, has eroded support for a California ballot proposal that would require U.S. food makers to disclose when their products contain genetically modified organisms.

If California voters approve the measure on November 6, it would be the first time U.S. food makers have to label products that contain GMOs, or ingredients whose DNA has been manipulated by scientists.

The United States does not require safety testing for GM ingredients before they go to market. Industry says the products are safe, but there is a fiery debate raging around the science.

Dozens of countries already have GM food labeling requirements, with the European Union imposing mandatory labeling in 1997. Since then, GM products and crops have virtually disappeared from that market.

For more than a week, an opposition group funded by Monsanto, PepsiCo Inc and others has dominated television and radio air time with ads portraying the labeling proposal as an arbitrary set of new rules that will spawn frivolous lawsuits and boost food prices, positions disputed by supporters of the proposed new measures.

Experts say the real risk is that food companies may be more likely to stop using GMOs, than to label them.

That could disrupt U.S. food production because ingredients like GM corn, soybeans and canola have for years been staples in virtually every type of packaged food, from soup and tofu to breakfast cereals and chips.

Support for the GMO labeling proposal has plummeted to 48.3 percent from 66.9 percent two weeks ago, according to an online survey of 830 likely California voters conducted for the California Business Roundtable and Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy by M4 Strategies.

At the same time, the proportion of respondents likely to vote “no” on the measure - known as Proposition 37 - jumped to 40.2 percent from 22.3 percent two weeks ago, according to the survey results released on Thursday.

“Clearly the ‘No’ side has more money and the advertising is having an effect,” Michael Shires, a Pepperdine professor who oversees the survey, told Reuters.

Funding for the effort to defeat the “Right to Know” ballot is led by chemical giants Monsanto and DuPont, each of which owns businesses that are the world’s top sellers of genetically modified seeds.

Monsanto has contributed just over $7 million to fight the proposal, while DuPont has kicked in about $5 million. In all, the “No on 37” camp raised a total of $34.6 million, according to filings with the California Secretary of State.

“Yes on 37” supporters, led by the Organic Consumers Association and Joseph Mercola, a natural health information provider, have donated $5.5 million.

“When there’s an initiative that’s going to affect an industry that can rally resources, they’ve usually been able to stop it,” said Shires. “It still could go either way.”

ADVERTISING WAR

Supporters of the new labeling measures on Thursday accused the “No on 37” group of “pounding Californians with lies and deception”, but the group says it is simply underscoring flaws in the labeling proposal.

The “No on 37” group recently had to pull an ad that identified its star, Henry Miller, as a Stanford University doctor rather than as a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution think tank on the university’s campus. The group corrected the affiliation after Stanford complained.

Supporters of the ballot initiative, including food and environmental activists as well as organic growers, say consumers have the right to know what’s in the food they eat.

Because foods made with GMOs are not labeled, it is impossible to trace any food allergies or other ill effects suffered by humans or animals, they say.

Drafters of Proposition 37 say they excluded certain foods from the labeling rules to make them simpler and less burdensome for businesses. Exemptions include restaurant food as well as milk and meat from animals that eat GM feed.

California is the top milk-producing state in nation and its restaurant industry has annual sales of about $58 billion. It is not a significant producer of GM crops.

Opponents of the bill have seized on the exclusions. Their ads question why a frozen pizza (sold in a supermarket) would be labeled, while delivery pizza (from a restaurant) would not.

Source

It seems like everyday I read about some new thing that Monstanto is doing that they definitely shouldn’t be doing.

Hey California - Yes on 37.

asianpriduhhh: batbooty: rogueofthecraft: Life Hacks: Kitchen...

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:34:52 -0400

asianpriduhhh:

batbooty:

rogueofthecraft:

Life Hacks: Kitchen Edition!

WOW I’M SO ANGRY I DIDN’T THINK OF THIS

omfg this is genius asdk;fawekfaks;df

especially the pizza one

Shrimp and white wine.

I mean grapes.

top 5 ats ships ↳ wesley & illyria It rains in my eyes...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:39:19 -0400

top 5 ats ships
↳ wesley & illyria

It rains in my eyes during Wesley’s final scene everytime.

Fuck yeh

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:04:51 -0400

Fuck yeh

magicblood: sailaweigh: Avengers opening credits done to Buffy...

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:17:12 -0400

magicblood:

sailaweigh:

Avengers opening credits done to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Epic!

Audio

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:04:00 -0400

As Above, So Below: The Cycles of Chaos: Deconstructing Initiation Part 2

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:38:39 -0400

As Above, So Below: The Cycles of Chaos: Deconstructing Initiation Part 2:

metaconscious:

Dark Night of the Soul

St. John of the Cross, a Christian mystic, wrote of this experience as “(it)…puts the sensory spiritual appetites to sleep, deadens them, and deprives them of the ability to find pleasure in anything. It binds the imagination, and impedes it from doing any good discursive…

fernsandmoss: Glass Gem Corn Like many heirloom treasures,...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:33:50 -0400

fernsandmoss:

Glass Gem Corn

Like many heirloom treasures, Glass Gem corn has a name, a place, and a story. Its origin traces back to Carl Barnes, a part-Cherokee farmer living in Oklahoma. Barnes had an uncanny knack for corn breeding. More specifically, he excelled at selecting and saving seed from those cobs that exhibited vivid, translucent colors. Exactly how long Barnes worked on Glass Gem—how many successive seasons he carefully chose, saved, and replanted these special seeds—is unknown. But after many years, his painstaking efforts created a wondrous corn cultivar that has now captivated thousands of people around the world.

Approaching the end of his life, Barnes bestowed his precious seed collection to Greg Schoen, his corn-breeding protégé. The weighty responsibility of protecting these seeds was not lost on Schoen. While in the process of moving in 2010, he sought out a place to store a sampling of the collection to ensure its safekeeping. Schoen passed on several unique corn varieties to fellow seedsman Bill McDorman, who was owner at the time of Seeds Trust, a small family seed company then located in central Arizona. (Today, Bill McDorman is Executive Director of Native Seeds/SEARCH.) Curious about the oddly named Glass Gems, he planted a handful of seeds in his garden. The spectacular plants that emerged took him by surprise. “I was blown away,” McDorman recalls. “No one had ever seen corn like this before.”

The bounty of genetic diversity our ancestral farmers and gardeners created in this way was shared and handed down across generations. But under today’s industrial agricultural paradigm of monocropping, GMOs, and hybrid seeds, this incredible diversity has been narrowed to a shred of its former abundance. A 1983 study compared the seed varieties found in the USDA seed bank at the time with those available in commercial seed catalogs in 1903. The results were striking. Of the 408 different tomato varieties on the market at the turn of the century, less than 80 were present in the USDA collection. Similarly, lettuces that once flourished with 497 heirloom varieties were only represented by 36 varieties. The same held true for most other veggies including sweet corn, of which only a dozen cultivars were preserved out of 307 unique varieties once available in the catalogs. Though this data leaves some questions around actual diversity decline, the trend toward dwindling crop diversity is alarming. In just a few generations, both the time-honored knowledge of seed saving and many irreplaceable seeds are in danger of disappearing. The story of Barnes, Schoen, and their remarkable corn is not unusual. For millennia, people have elegantly interacted with the plants that sustain them through careful selection and seed saving. This process, repeated year after year, changes and adapts the plants to take on any number of desirable characteristics, from enhanced color and flavor to disease resistance and hardiness.

Though much of this diversity may be gone, all hope is not lost. The emergence of a breathtaking heirloom variety like Glass Gem reveals that the art and magic of seed saving lives on. It reminds us that we can return to this age-old practice and restore beauty, wonder, and abundance to our world. Indeed, this renaissance is already underway. The rising seed library movement is encouraging local gardeners to become crop breeders and empowering communities to reclaim sovereignty over their food. Our pioneering Seed School program at Native Seeds/SEARCH is training people from all walks of life in building sustainable local seed systems rooted in ancient traditions. And as eye-popping images of Glass Gem continue to spread around the world, Carl Barnes’ kaleidoscopic corn has become a beacon—and perhaps an inspiring symbol—for the global seed-saving revival.

Awesome Adventure Time art by *mikemaihack Yes.

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:40:21 -0400

Awesome Adventure Time art by *mikemaihack

Yes.

hambience: Japanese Fart Battle Sroll Scholars at Waseda University have scanned and uploaded...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:39:35 -0400

hambience:

Japanese Fart Battle Sroll

Scholars at Waseda University have scanned and uploaded images of the “Fart Battle Scroll” (hegassen emaki – 屁合戦絵巻), one of the Edo Period’s most bizarre works of art

Wtf doesn’t quite suffice.

"NFL fans walk around in team jerseys all the time, and even though most of them look like schlubs,..."

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:44:21 -0400

“NFL fans walk around in team jerseys all the time, and even though most of them look like schlubs, most of them FEEL better than they do at any other time of the week. In fact, the fatter and more out of shape you are, the more powerful a spell the jersey casts over your ego. Maybe you look like a real player. Maybe the head coach will be in dire need of a running back in the fourth quarter, see you through the TV screen, and summon you out to the field to go rip off the winning 90-yard swing pass. That will never happen, but the jersey is what lets you dream about it, and often the dream is vivid enough to make a decent substitute for reality. Which is good, because in reality you’re fat and your team sucks.”

- Why Grown Men Walk Around Wearing Football Jerseys (via hilker)

This may explain why I enjoy wearing my Battlestar Galactica uniform so much

The last comment was a nice touch.

The only thing I didn’t like about this film was that the...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:34:45 -0400

The only thing I didn’t like about this film was that the middle was slightly less spectacularly amazing than the beginning and the end which were exceedingly spectacularly amazing in the 100% satisfied sense.

"This is my husband. He has a body temperature of 98.6 degrees. He is within one standard deviation..."

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:18:28 -0400

““This is my husband. He has a body temperature of 98.6 degrees. He is within one standard deviation of the average height of the American male. He eats many foods, including vegetables, and also meat. He is able to understand up to 1,000 phrases in English. He cannot be wet for periods greater than 25 seconds. This is my husband. I am his wife. Hello and goodbye.””

- Ann Romney (via momgenes)

Idk why that made me laugh so hard.