A few tasty tidbits from an article titled "Food For Thought: The ecological cost of feeding 8 billion people"...
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As reported by ReFED: In the U.S., a staggering 38% of all food goes unsold or uneaten. It’s valued at $444 billion, roughly 2% of U.S. GDP, and it has the same climate footprint as the entire U.S. aviation industry (passenger, commercial, and military).

According to the UN, nearly 30% of harvested food is lost globally. At the same time, 250 million people (4% of human population) are living on the verge of starvation. In the developed world, food wastage is primarily related to consumer habits, while in the developing world, a lot of food is lost due to a lack of refrigeration and supply chain spoilage.

A staggering 6% of global greenhouse emissions are associated with production of food that is never eaten. Half of that is related to consumer waste, which is completely in our control. The other half has to do with supply chains.

You might think you have no control over this, but you can help by eating locally produced food. Look for fruits and veggies that are locally grown during your next visit to the grocery store.

This may be wishful thinking, but if humans stopped consuming animal products and instead switched to a plant-based diet, we could ‘rewild’ 30% of Earth’s habitable land (equal to five Amazon rainforests).
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://medium.com/@praful.bits/food-for-thought-the-ecological-cost-of-feeding-8-billion-people-2ab7f97607cd

#Food #Vegan #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

As many of you know, there's been a few focused attempts at spamming the fediverse with crypto offers. The wat this is currently happening is that someone is registering hundreds or thousands of accounts on an instance (first it was mastodon.social, and most recently mastodon.world) and then proceeding to post messages with links to get your free crypto. These messages are sent using the "mentioned people only" visibility setting, meaning that if you're not tagged in them, you don't know that this issue is happening. It's unclear how spam victims are selected, however it's very likely collecting user names recently appearing in timelines.

Obviously, just like with spam and malicious emails, if you receive one of these messages, you should not click on links - at best it's a scam, and at worst, it's something that will attempt to steal passwords or install malware - usually for the purpose of stealing your identity, your money, and so on. If you receive such a message, simply use the reporting function on your instance to report the spam to your moderators and the moderators of the originating instance.

For this particular tactic, it is prudent to consider disabling direct messages from people you don't follow. To do that, go to settings, preferences, notifications, and check the box next to "Block direct messages from people you don't follow" at the bottom of the screen. It's also possible to block the domain of the spammers, however it's important to note that doing so will remove all your followers and follows on that domain.

This picture is going to be printed in history books as a turning-point for transgender people in the US. The open question is, which direction will the turn be in?

I don't know, and I don't have ideas for what I can do, but we are on the cusp of big, scary changes that will affect everyone, not just trans people, not just minorities.

If you were waiting for a call to action, here it is. They just banned her from the MT House using the rules of decorum. What better metaphor for where we are?

Once again, I'm reminded of how much the billionaire space race has absolutely destroyed my love of rockets.

10 years ago, I definitely would have been paying close attention to the current giant SpaceX launch. But because I know it's going to be used to launch hundreds of unregulated, unsafe, polluting, for-profit Starlink satellites at once, I just can't look.

Instead of being excited and awestruck by a new gigantic rocket launch, it just makes me want to puke.

Walking around #Zagreb I came across this place: The Museum of Broken Relationships.

It is exactly what it sounds like. People bring in mementos of breakups or other lost relationships, and the museum puts them on display along with their stories.

#museum #Croatia #travel

#NPR CEO John Lansing responds to #Musk on #Twitter.

"NPR stands for freedom of speech & holding the powerful accountable. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy.
My full statement on the recent inaccurate Twitter label below:"