Dale Leftwich

4. So why the massive emphasis on food waste? Because it avoids confrontation with powerful economic interests. Everyone can agree that people should waste less. Intentionally or otherwise, it involves individuating blame for a systemic problem: a classic neoliberal gambit.

1. This is a thread about why Food Waste is so often, and wrongly, identified as the major problem with the food system. Yes, it's an issue, but in the rich world, it's far smaller than many others. It’s massively over-emphasised, while other, far more important problems, are ignored and avoided. 🧵

Butter and Plant-Based Oils Intake and Mortality This cohort study investigates associations of butter and plant-based oil intakes with risk of total and cause-specific mortality among US adults.

"Substituting butter with plant-based oils, particularly olive, soybean, and canola oils, may confer substantial benefits for preventing premature deaths."

Butter and Plant-Based Oils Intake and Mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cohort study. Nutrition research hard. Still, interesting...

How does health misinformation spread? Health misinformation spreads rapidly through social media, online forums, and word-of-mouth, fueled by algorithms and cognitive biases. Learn how false health claims gain traction, why people believe...

How does health misinformation spread? www.cma.ca/healthcare-f... cc @scienceupfirst.bsky.social

Many forces, including:

- Confirmation Bias
- Availability Heuristic
- Emotional Reasoning

"...stopping its spread requires us to be attentive & discerning consumers of online content."

"Agricultural cold shower"

Last look, pretty sure my place will be fine but gonna sleep better complying with evac.

Clearly, the Devil has gone down to Georgia.

Me under a bridge in a kayak on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon.

My daughter and I in touring kayaks on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon. The snow covered riverbank hill is in the background. It is a grey day.

Photo of me in a touring kayak on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon with 2 bridges visible. The snow covered riverbank is in the background. It is a grey day.

Night picture of the Wildwood ski trails in Saskatoon. The snow and ski are lit by reflected city light. There is a string of white lights in the adjacent bushes. Everything has a grey-orange cast.

It was a great winter day - kayaking in the South Saskatchewan River this morning and nordic skiing this evening (plus chores and making supper in between).

Sask. canola group makes crop disease its major focus https://vist.ly/3mqi5pd #cdnag #westcdnag

Seed Oils Probably Aren’t Giving You Colorectal Cancer Some of the worst media coverage of science I’ve ever seen

Enough with the f*cking seed oil noise!

Seed Oils Probably Aren’t Giving You Cancer
gidmk.medium.com/seed-oils-pr... by @gidmk.bsky.social

"...the study in question didn’t show that at all. This is quite a remarkable case in which the reporting is almost entirely divorced from the data at hand."

Senior Citizen Center
Flaxton, ND

That's one way to do it 🤣

So I would advise sticking it into any spare corner, with a little shelter from other shrubs if possible. Mahonia will do well in any ordinary decent soil, and it doesn’t mind a bit of shade. Both are out-of-door plants to be grown in anybody’s #garden.
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Canola Discovery Days, Saskatoon #agsky
#Fertilizermanagement

Good drainage is essential, meaning a number of holes drilled in the bottom, and then a 2” layer of broken crocks, and then a thick layer of fibrous leaf-mould half the tub deep, then on top of all that the main soil in which your plants will have to grow for years and years.

Realize that everything connects to everything else. Quote by Leonardo da Vinci overlayed on image of his painting Mona Lisa. #art #artquote #artistquote #davinci #monalisa

Bit hot & dusty out in the paddock today.
Tim looked at me sideways when I came in and just burst out laughing.
… I’ll take being remote, filthy and tired and going to bed early any day over city life and makeup 😝
#agsky

Canada’s grasslands aren’t coming back — can we keep what we have? For the average Canadian, the long, lonely drive along the Trans-Canada Highway across southern Saskatchewan and Alberta is capital B boring. For those not from the Prairies, the seemingly endless, mo...

Our grasslands are as important (or more!) than our trees when it comes to carbon storage and biodiversity. So can we preserve what's left? www.realagriculture.com/2024/11/cana...
#westcdnag #agsky #conservation #soil #carbon #organicmatter

It’s been an interesting week in Tasmania. 120-200mm across NW cropping region could be a huge boost a month out from most harvests beginning or could spike disease after a long dry spell. Nervous week. Pea crops in my area first casualty. Harvest window came and went. #agsky #rainsky

Houston: late fall color, riding the wind. #Houston

This week's Talking Biotech Podcast is about MONKEYPOX or mpox. A great conversation with @JohnGRizk about the virus, its symptoms and current vaccines and therapies. share.transistor.fm/s/133f460d

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/untitled-1967

Souvenir 2

Souvenir 2 https://www.wikiart.org/en/jasper-johns/souvenir-2

A Peek inside #NotreDame
(Via @rebatirnotredamedeparis on Instagram)

My memory of Notre Dame de Paris is of a vast, impressive but gloomy interior. Now look at it! Amazing achievement in five years

November 28, 2024 - Another frosty day in #Saskatoon #NaturePhotography

Forest of Paimpont

Forest of Paimpont

How fungi colonize plant roots Researchers have identified two fungal enzymes that hijack the immune system of plants, playing a critical role in the colonization of plant roots. These findings open new avenues for interventions in...

Endophytic fungi colonize roots by turning off plant immune system.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...