There’s a 2003 patent for the idea of making a more lycopene-rich pineapple, and a 2012 one for this specific plant, which they’re calling “Rosé.” The second one is much more comprehensible (being not just Del Monte’s patent lawyers trying to cover the entirety of some random idea someone thought of on their lunch…

Agreed. I’m not a scientist that deals with genetic engineering but I am one that deals with the FDA (and know enough about GMOs to be well informed). I am also well-versed in “dumbing it down for the non-scientists”. My explanation of what I do is “I make the test that the doctor uses when you’re sick”.

A very, very cursory google isn’t turning up the actual literature regarding what Del Monte did here but any time I’m asked to write a grad assignment in the form of a research proposal, I write something very much like this (genetically engineering overproduction of a useful molecule in a crop plant - ask me about…

So I was a vegetarian for many years for moral reasons, and people always liked to sort of pick fights with me about it along the lines of “well you don’t eat meat, BUT I BET YOU EAT SKITTLES AND THEY’RE MADE WITH HORSE BONES*” or “UR SHOES HAVE LEATHER IN THEM I BET” or whatever. Which, I mean, they aren’t wrong, but…

It’s a special snowflake version of “Tommy.”

It’s racist to even bring up that something is racist, quoting the pumpkin-elect when he describes performing sexual assault is offensive, and calling out bombing as violent is violence itself.

They just need a new name, other than pro-life. How about alt-life?

Lena, Lena, Lena:

New Title for this article.

I literally can’t even finish reading this article because it makes me so mad. These fucking idiots (suggesting a girl could have lived if she ate raw vegan instead of going through chemo?!) make me so mad, and make me ashamed to be vegetarian-bordering-on-vegan. It’s so annoying being part of a community whose…

But she’s 12 so now what? I’ll see myself out

It’s not just about supposed “religious superstition”. Remember, that Hawaiian land you want that precious and sacred telescope to be built upon once belonged to the Native Hawaiians until a bunch of Americans trying to colonize Hawaii, annoyed that Queen Lili’uokalani wanted to stop them from dominating the politics…

It’d be a loss for astronomy, but a major win for Hawaiian cultural practitioners who don’t want their sacred mountain marred by gigantic machines to keep letting the government walk all over them.

NOW I get it! I was struggling to figure out who she’s supposed to be.... I had forgotten this Christina look, or else it just wasn’t different enough from Kylie’s normal.

Thanks strawman. Who said that?