davidd’s A DOLL A DAY 2022

[davidd]

I love her cheerful face.  What is she fixing....?


Did you hear they had cricket hotdogs & some other sort of bugburgers at this year's Calgary Stampede?
I DO, actually, eat weeds -- dandelion greens & purslane add some green & vitamins to a stir fry...  

This project was to take down a patio light that was wired in to the wall.

I had not heard about the cricket dogs, but the news does not surprise me. Is the plan to turn the once vast cattle ranching Canadian prairies in to cricket and grasshopper farms?

Cattle ranching is a year-round operation, even in Canada. I don't see many grasshoppers in the winter. Imagine the energy requirements for all those climate-controlled bug farms that will need to be constructed. How "green" is that going to be?

I was thinking about "eating weeds" this summer, and how misguided the idea is. As I looked around my yard and the surrounding hillsides in arid Utah, I found myself thinking how difficult life would have been as a "hunter-gatherer." There's not much there to gather. And not all "weeds" are edible. Wild grasses are, for the most part, not edible, or the edible portions comprise only a small part of the plant. Many weeds are thorny or woody. Weeds require considerable processing to extract the edible portions. Only a select variety of weeds are edible for humans, and they are usually not common weeds. Weeds would need to be "farmed" in order to provide adequate food resources for even a relatively limited number of people.

Which is, historically, exactly how agriculture arose.

Wheat and other grains, and vegetable crops, are farmed for human use because they are more efficient uses of resources than simply growing weeds. More of the crop is edible. There is less waste. Over time, selective breeding has made food crops even more efficient.

What I concluded, then, is that the wealthy elite are making these suggestions out of spite. Out of pure hate. They want the peons to suffer. They want to see us groveling before them. There is no other ex-planation. "Eating weeds" would require large-scale agricultural cultivation the same as any other agricultural product, only the farming would be less efficient and the end product would be less nutritious and less flavorful.

Even the weeds would need fertilizer. Weeds can't grow in depleted soil any more so than can other crops.

The whole concept is mean-spirited at the very least. Intentionally cruel is probably more accurate. Intentional cruelty with no large-scale benefits: I would go so far as to call it evil.

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21 November – A Doll A Day 2022:

21 November - Forgotten Finds

While looking through cupboards in the garage I ran across a couple of things I'd completely forgotten about, including this nifty Barbie & Ken Pirate Halloween set.