Reminds me of this sketch.

@Background Pony #AC41  
Spike is set for life if they can, given how much salt magically appears whenever one of his episodes comes on.

I wonder if dragons can/will eat salt crystals.

@Ralter  
Our bugs wouldn’t even touch them  
There are some lonely sailors from Columbus’s crews in the early Age Of Discovery and African bushmeat eaters from the Mid-20th Century who might take issue with that assessment.
 
why human waste is so rarely used for fertilizer  
Bacterial contamination, especially from Human-specific E. coli strains, is definitely part of it, but there’s also the fact that insects which are attracted to human feces– both scavengers like flies and parasites like mosquitos and kissing bugs– are also major vectors for human diseases. One of the rarely remarked upon contributing factors to Rommel’s defeat in North Africa was that the DAK was riddled with disease thanks in part to their poor institutional latrine practices; they essentially just crapped on the ground over the nearest sand dune instead of digging downwind slit trenches or even cat holes, which drew swarms of flies– and all the diseases they carry in North Africa– to their camps.

@Keith Mowz  
You’d be right to do so. It’s why human waste is so rarely used for fertilizer. You can get sick from it due to all the bugs that OTHER people carry. These diseases will effect other humans quite easily. Diseases from cows (and their waste) however will rarely if ever effect humans. Cross-species diseases are extremely rare even in systems all based off the same DNA. Which makes me laugh whenever there’s a scifi story based on human bugs killing off aliens. Our bugs wouldn’t even touch them, or vice-versa.

@AaronMk  
I’d still rather eat stuff fertilized with stuff maybe made FROM the cow shit expressly for the purpose of growing strong and healthy crops, rather than just plopping sewage on top of my developing food.

@Keith Mowz
 
Well to be fair manure is a pretty good fertilizer all-in-all and won’t poison the tomato when it’s eventually absorbed, unlike maybe the pesticides.
 
But tomatoes in general are a weird sketchy thing when it comes to using anything on. They tend to absorb materials from the soil and deposit them directly into the fruit itself.

Yeah, I’d not want to eat gay coma patients, either.

@Keith Mowz  
Market it as “night soil” and you’ll be rich!

@AaronMk  
Not to mention they use manure. Nothing says delicious like fecal residue.

@AaronMk  
Nature is pretty good at killing all things without regard.

@Keith Mowz
 
Arsenic, nicotine, cyanide. All is permitted since all are naturally derived!
 
Folk’d probably use salt too as an herbicide if that didn’t bleach the soil and kill everything without regard.

@AaronMk  
Hey, it could be nicotine instead. Maybe that’s why people get so devoted to them?

@Keith Mowz
 
Gotta scarf down that arsenic-based pesticides.

@TexasUberAlles  
I’ve researched it on my own; Penn & Teller’s bit is just the one people are most likely to know and easiest to see without having access to scholastic journals. One of my favorites was this piece from Cambridge, which found that people end up consuming literally ten goddamn thousand more times as much natural pesticide as they do synthetic, which aren’t any less carcinogenic.
 
And its as much “we can charge 150% of what we normally do if we call it organic” (And no, it is not more expensive, just less efficient.) as it is people being elitist and smug. Businesses have learned that by exploiting peoples’ desires to be environmentally friendly, they can make money.

ember i chaenge you to a duel ‘cue megalovina’

@TexasUberAlles  
I think alot of people forgot about, while getting up into the eco and healthy food, is just how to produce enough food for all of the billions of people on this planet.  
Although something should be said about just how much food we eat in North America, vs other parts of the world.  
There’s got to be a difference between making a really good meal for one/few people, vs making alot of cost effective food for alot of people.

@Keith Mowz  
Penn & Teller are brilliant comedians, but I would hesitate to take anything political they say seriously without backchecking it first, given how LOLibertarian they are. Small sample size studies are pretty notorious for being dirt easy to manipulate to get whatever result you want.
 
…A large majority of “organic” whatever is still nonsense fueled by smug delusion, though.
 
@Ping_chan  
bread a hundred years ago  
I wish there were more (apolitical) studies being done on the potential link between the rise of gluten intolerence/wheat allergies and the shift to faster-rising strains of yeast for industrial breadbaking in the 20th Century; there’s a lot of actual science that could be done there with the aim of producing healthier consumer products while maintaining production rates. It’s just plain freaky how many people have how many different kinds of allergies nowadays compared to when I was a kid and potentially fatal peanut allergies for example were nearly unheard of.

@Keith Mowz  
Heh, kinda reminds me of how bread looked over a hundred years ago vs how a loaf of bread looks now.

@BarryFromMars  
Locally grown, yes, organic, objectively false. This has been repeatedly disproven, most famously by Penn & Teller. In a blind taste test not only will 90% of people choose conventionally cultivated produce over organically grown, they will guess the bigger, nicer looking produce is organic (haha, no) and most damningly when you cut a piece of produce in half and tell people one half is organic they will claim that it tastes better. It’s all in your mind.

@trueblue02  
that is the ugliest woman laughing alone with salad i have ever seen wtf

Come on its great
 

 

 
 
Try some……

@BarryFromMars  
Just about anything grown in california has no taste, at least compared to just about anywhere else in the US. Since so much of our produce is grown in california unless you’re buying something locally grown it’s going to taste like you accidentally bit into a piece of wax display fruit.

@TexasUberAlles  
From the sound of things, dragons seem to be atomic super goats in their MLP:FiM interpretations. X3

@Background Pony Number 17  
Spike also eats ‘‘baked bads’’  
I love that Spike appears to literally be an omnivore; he can eat plants, animals, rocks, evil grimoires…