Can't we all just get oolong?

I could spend the next couple of years mostly doing Vox Machina art, but I’m juggling things as is, so I tried to squeeze in everything in a four month project. Since the file is so ridiculous I cut it up for posting here, but you can see the whole assembled thing over on my Patreon.

https://rjalker.tumblr.com/post/178286441229/all-the-animorphs-books-in-the-proper-order

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[pre-gifs] “…So, she [Paris Hilton] was a very wealthy woman, [initially] not that well known and then she gets to mega-stardom. How? The sex tape. Which was made by her boyfriend at the time, who was married, and thirteen years her senior. She sued to try and stop it [the tape’s circulation] and she couldn’t and it became the best selling sex tape for two years on the porn market.”

There’s a woman at the grocer who quite possibly has the most obnoxious voice on earth.  “Excuse me, sir, where do you keep the non-GMO carrots? I see the organic, but are those certified non-GMO?”

I’m a hair’s breadth from killing everyone there who stops in an aisle as if it isn’t a thoroughfare and dawdles inexplicably. “Excuse me, but all carrots grown today are GMO. All produce grown today, in fact.”

She stares at me and starts to put on a dirty look. Before she can vocalize her “How do you know?” I cut her off and say…

“I’m a food historian and you really ought to educate yourself about produce lineages if you’re so concerned about GMO. Go buy some purple carrots and leave this poor man lone so that he can do his job.”

And then I walked away…I get testy when I am hungry and she was between me and the butcher. A bad place to be.

I’m not sure if you realize this…but orange carrots like the ones she had in her hand…are a GMO.

The carrots used in most of Europe from the beginning of the Spice Trade up until the 17th century were of Asian stock and were reddish purple in color–rather more like a beet or the purple carrots of today. It was the Dutch who crossed them in hothouses with yellow carrots using new farming methods of fertilization and small beds. The yellow carrots were created by selection among hybrid progenies of yellow Eastern carrots, white carrots and wild pale subspecies grown in the Mediterranean. The first orange carrots originated by intentional bred mutation.

Now…all you non-GMO people blocking the aisles can finally stop harping on, yes?

We’ve done similarly with food to ensure high quality meat and produce.  It is not a chemical process, it is just the natural process of pre-planned selective growing and breeding.  GMO has also ensured quantities of food so we don’t have so many starving people on the planet.  You know what hurts humanity? NON-GMO and 100% organic foods.  Both reduce the quantity of crops being harvested which leads to lower food production.  Lower food production = higher prices and less food available for all.  

Hell, people get a food-boner when they get meat/eggs that have had no antibiotics and I’m thinking “fuck you…. you let animals get sick and diseased so you could have some arbitrary popular label on your packaging.”I mean what the fuck do you think antibiotics are for???

Organic works on a small scale, but there are billions of starving people out there and without pesticides (that are proven to be non-harmful to people in the quantities used to kill pests) a lot of farmers can’t harvest their full crop… not nearly as much as they can WITH pesticide use.