Month: December 2009

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Nibbles: Aquaculture, Pilchards et al. protected, Mongolian nomads, Tropical wine

  • FAO on climate change and aquaculture.
  • Cornish sardines sigh huge sigh of relief at attaining EU protection.
  • “Planned activities include supporting small businesses, improving access to local and regional markets and reintroducing abandoned traditions such as felt-making for clothing and yurts.” Sounds like a barrel of laughs.
  • “…patronizing our local fruit wines also means helping small farmers and communities that are collecting the fruits used for making these wines.” Anybody try this?
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A rich new vein of misunderstood agricultural biodiversity

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Maybe we’ve stumbled on a rich new vein of agro-biodiversity fun. Jacob’s comment about the Austrian “Swiss” cow (see photo above) shows how easy it is for marketing types to be tripped up by the fine details of their craft. 1 Nick Saltmarsh’s example of wheat mistaken for oats is another good one, even though I can’t share the photo because it is All Rights Reserved.

So how about it? We’re happy to become the central repository for all examples of inappropriate use of agricultural imagery. Send ’em in.