Never heard of those dogwood fruits, but sounds like something that I would eat if I ever found it growing. Cool that you were able to educate those folks!

I could have told you that. And I would have, if I had the funding.

I’d be interested to know how they turn out!

All solid choices by the sound of it. I’ll need to read up on loquat some more.

How fortunate that you experienced an abundance of fruit at an early age!

To the native animals who currently live there, all humans are rich fucks.

Sourcehut also seems promising. There can be both.

A study published in April zeroed in on antibiotics specifically and found similar results. Researchers used a model to estimate contamination across the world’s rivers based on the annual human consumption of the 40 most-used antibiotics, including ceftriaxone, cefixime and amoxicillin (anyone who has had a bacterial infection has probably heard of this one). They found that 8,500 tons of antibiotics leach into the world’s river system, with the potential of reaching the ocean. This number doesn’t include contamination from manufacturers or the agricultural industry.

Bold part is interesting considering that animal agriculture uses about 70% of all antibiotics produced (80% in the USA) and probably a similar fraction of vaccines. But I suppose that no one really wants to hear about that.

Though I hear Mullvad has its own Firefox fork now

Mullvad Browser? It’s basically Tor Browser without the Tor, meant to be used with a VPN instead. It has integration with Mullvad VPN by default, but that add-on can be removed, and the browser doesn’t need Mullvad VPN in order to function. Since the browser is based on Firefox, someone might want to fund Firefox development by using it with Mozilla VPN instead.

I am not advocating for the use of herbal medicine nor for anarcho-primitivism.

Not exactly what you asked, but…

I think that in an anarchist society, much of the “medicine” mindset would fade away. An anarchist society would have no human supremacists, so people would not eat animals or use them for medical experiments. This alone would prevent a great deal of ill health. While certain drugs can be useful in emergency situations (like opium for pain relief during and after surgery), most if not all of these emergency “medicines” can be found in some form in the plant kingdom and do not require complex manufacturing processes. Modern medicine and “better living through chemistry” is really quite a recent concept, and the pharmaceuticals of today are no more necessary for health than anything that the snake oil salesmen were selling 200 years ago. The current medical industry is one of the largest and most profitable capitalist enterprises in the world, with a huge financial incentive to keep people sick. (I recommend the documentary They’re Trying To Kill Us which explores how the medical industry, fast-food industry, and government are interconnected in oppressing people.) Take away the profit motive, and 99.9% of “medicine” in the world would disappear, and we’d all be better off as a result.

What good is a vast amount of learning if what you have learned is not true? The medical profession has from the beginning based its practices upon false principles, hence throw physiology out the window and poison the sick with nostrums. We do not seek warmth of an iceberg, so why seek health from a poison? Let’s get our principles straight. Health comes from healthful influences and agencies. Drugs, all of which are poisons, do not belong among the health-building factors of life. – Herbert Shelton, Natural Hygiene: Man’s Pristine Way of Life (1968)

Agreed. There is no need for even more microplastic in everything from deep-sea sediment to rain clouds. But I suspect that as people accumulate more and more microplastic in their brains, they will become less and less capable of making rational and ecologically-responsible decisions. A vicious cycle.

And the tree doesn’t get too big and out of control?

Good to know. Different plants probably have different sensitivities to it also.

Ah. I didn’t want to assume anything about your level of knowledge/experience. Apple trees and most nut trees can take a long time regardless, so time will tell how they perform…

Just so you know, being planted near black walnut trees also makes things grow slower. But yeah, I imagine that Maine would depress just about any tree…

Diversification is key to any successful investment strategy.

Some ways that vegans can further reduce their methane emissions:

• Avoid rice. The flooded cultivation results in anaerobic conditions that favour methane production. Switch to other staples like banana or sweet potato.
• Avoid the use of fossil fuels as much as possible. Extraction of both petroleum and natural gas can leak a substantial amount of methane.
• Contribute to reforestation and protection of peatlands and boreal forests. If peatlands were allowed to dry out, or if boreal permafrost were to thaw, the ground in these areas would release an enormous amount of methane.
• Reduce, reuse, recycle. The anaerobic conditions in tightly-packed landfills favour methane production.

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