Just a few....
Agriculture
GMO chocolate? I'd rather pay more, or wait, for the real thing than risk ill health effects from "gene-edited" chocolate, thanks.
Animals
The Silver-Spotted Skipper can be an annoying butterfly. It's a composter; it tends to warn people who are about to step on something nasty by flying straight up off the nastiest spot and perching on their faces, clinging, sucking sweat. I really disliked this species as a child, when people farmed and they were common as stable muck. Now most farms are owned by absentee landlords, and this valuable composter species is locally rare. Alana Mautone found one pollinating sweetpeas. They are sort of pretty when they keep a healthy distance. Her photos are pretty, as always.
Glyphosate
Yes, the EPA should be required to exclude from consideration anything authored or sponsored by a chemical company when deciding NOT to re-license glyphosate. Better they should test a few samples from even a dozen patients with chronic bleeding conditions and, as a majority of those samples will show more severe bleeding after glyphosate exposure, ban the stuff. And require any use of spray pesticides to be done by a trained and licensed applicator, whose annual licensing fee should be in six figures between the dollar sign and the decimal point, following a unanimous vote by everyone living within three miles of the spray site. No more disabling illnesses for the neighbors because someone is too lazy (or too evil) to pick weeds out of his garden. And require all sprayed and/or genetically modified "food" items to be clearly marked as such, so that we can refuse to feed them to our gerbils.
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