If I were a winemaker in Salento, I think I'd support change to ensure that I wasn't cutting myself off from customers.
Jeremy Parzen with some rival etymologies for Negroamaro grapes and why, whichever one is "true" it might be wise to rethink.
https://dobianchi.com/2021/05/05/negroamaro-racial-slur-racist/
Terrific article on dates in SoCal.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-03/muslim-tradition-break-ramadan-fast-with-dates
USDA says there were about 2,019,000 farms in the US in 2020. But how many were actually farms in the usual sense of the word, growing food for sale as their primary business. I'm sure @rosenblawg said something about this recently, but I can't now find it. Help, please.
"Scotland is a colossus in native breeds."
That's all you really need to know, but if you want to read about the "six big asks" (yuck) it is all here https://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/19213969.vote-native-breeds/
TIL that dumdum bullets were made originally in Dumdum. By design?
I have an hour or so to myself, so, Moom or Johnny.Decimal, that is the question.
Let joy be unconfined: farm share of food dollar up from 14.2 cents in 2018 to 14.3 cents in 2019. Farmers get an even lower share of eating out dollars, and eating out dollars plunged during the pandemic.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=100802
I've always wanted to try a sensory deprivation tank, though deprivation seems like entirely the wrong word. Floating in the Dead Sea is all well and good, but those salts sting. I would expect a proper tank to be much nicer.
"Decellularized spinach serves as an edible platform for laboratory-grown meat"
A less mouth-watering headline, you're unlikely to read.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/bc-dss033021.php
I agree that people should learn to protect themselves against pseudoscience, especially medical quackery. But before you ask "How is this supposed to work?" it might be even more worthwhile to ask "Does this even work?"
Without evidence of an effect, a mechanism is worthless.