- Agriculture is bad for natural ecosystems. But great for maps, you have to admit.
- Greens are good for you. And this is a great roundup of the latest scholarship on brassica evolution, domestication and diversity. You’ll find most of the paper quoted in past Brainfoods.
- Grains are great. Especially with greens.
- Thank goodness for household seed banking. Especially in conjunction with the formal kind.
- All so we can breed a better peanut. And cut down more natural ecosystem?
- No, there’s community genebanks for that too…
That peanut-breeding exercise seems a bit of a waste of effort given all the recent evidence that most of the increase in peanut allergies was the result of bad advice, to withhold peanuts from infants and toddlers. Sure, nut allergies are a problem for many people, but is this really a good solution to accidental peanut anaphylaxis?