Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space!

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
First in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

Here’s How America Uses Its Land

The 48 contiguous states alone are a 1.9 billion-acre jigsaw puzzle of cities, farms, forests and pastures.

Bloomberg.com
Chocolate consumption and Nobel Prizes: A bizarre juxtaposition if there ever was one

Scientific American Blog Network
@conradhackett Before gobbling the Lindt, please be sure to read the linked-to Scientific American article where Jogalekar appropriately rips the research to shreds. Both a sampling issue and failure to account for third variables.
@cenfetelli @conradhackett as a bit of a chocolate snob, I also have to question what the quality of chocolate is that's being consumed. If it was high quality šŸ« , the US wouldn't even rank on that graph. I spent the first three decades of my life there, and what Hersheys does to their chocolate is unspeakable 🤢
@seawall @cenfetelli What chocolate do you like best?

@conradhackett @cenfetelli oooh, if money were no object I'd be having a selection of Bohemein Chocolates every week. Locally crafted chocolate by a pastry chef formerly from the Czech Republic. Wellington Chocolate Factory also a good time, very strict bean to bar standards.

But while I'm on a budget, Whittakers Dark Ghana is my go-to bar.