For my 3D production class I had to create a three shot short that was a remake of an existing movie scene- with muppets. I ran out of time to do the particle water effects, but this is basically Pacific Rim anyway.
We’re losing our collective shit laughing at this. Holy crap it’s so funny, please turn the sound on.
[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?
No…I thought not.
gah thank you… GMO is not a bad thing. If you take a white rose and breed it with a red rose and get a pink one, you have a GMO rose.
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.
Lastly, pasteurization. YOU WANT IT. Again, not a chemical process. All it is is the super heating of certain produce to kill off bacteria, such as e coli. People were getting food-boners for non-pasteurized drinks and companies like Odwala obliged. People DIED from e coli because guess what? Fruit grows on tree, fruit drops from tree near animal shit from wild dear, rabbits, etc. Shit gets on fruit, fruit picker throws it into basket. Basket of fruit now contaminated with shit. No pasteurization to kill e coli… e coli gets into your damn juice. You give juice to your kid. Kid dies. Good job.
Selective breeding is not the same as gene splycing
Gene splicing is not done in the vast majority of cases. It’s too expensive. Most spliced plants are used in extreme environments, which is why they are so heavily protected in IP. They are useful to the corporation. The overwhelming majority of GMO is not spliced. It is hothouse crossbred, and the FDA requires the GMO label for literally no reason. All modern plants sold in supermarkets have been cross bred within the last 200 years. That is simple fact. No one is eating spliced tomatoes. They’re eating tomatoes whose seed stock was developed in a greenhouse condition with plants crossbred for color, size, flavor, life, and so forth. That’s it. The GMO label is inaccurate in the extreme and people jump onto the fad because of a lack of education.
