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Jeremy Cherfas

@scatmandan Understood. And thanks for the picture of your poster. I'm new to the game and didn't know about that, but I've bookmarked the poster generator for next time.

Jeremy Cherfas

@scatmandan Interesting. I was surprised when clicking on a hashtag to be taken to Twitter rather than your posts about geohashing on your own site. Is that deliberate?

Jeremy Cherfas

There's just one problem with blaming Monsanto for "the public's distrust of GMOs" and that is that the majority of the public, at least in the US, do not distrust GMOs but willingly eat it at every opportunity. For those that do mistrust GMOs, yes, I too would blame Monsanto.

Jeremy Cherfas

OK, I've had time to think about this and to do something, and I guess there's even a chance it could catch on, if @arush and @ladyhope are agreeable.

https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/breathing-life-into-a-blog-meme-maybe

Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on ruk.ca :

Peter Rukavina is working on changing his life by doing eight critical things each day. I reckon that's too many. If I get three done, I count that as a win. Maybe I need to trim my idea what constitutes a thing.

Jeremy Cherfas

@b_pritchard Absolutely appalling. Whatever happened to the nationalist promise of being better able to feed its citizens? There can be no excuse for an increase in stunting these days.

eatthispodcast.com/india/

Jeremy Cherfas

@BBCFoodProg Given that more than 50% of food consumed in the UK is imported (more for fruit and veg), have any of the medical associations said anything public about UK food policy over the next few years? Should medical students be visiting Australia, not Oxfordshire?

Jeremy Cherfas

@herdyshepherd1 The pain for British farmers is real. However, outsourcing British food production to the rest of the world is nothing new. The deal is a return to the good old days of Empire, just like, er, Brexit.

https://eatthispodcast.com/large-planet

Jeremy Cherfas

What a terrific essay from George Orwell, which goes well beyond this choice jumping-off point:

"[T]he toad, unlike the skylark and the primrose, has never had much of a boost from poets."

Jeremy Cherfas

I don't doubt that medical software is bad and that doctors have good cause to complain. But in a fight to the death, I suspect software for human resources or for teachers might be even worse.