No fucking joke. JC's reasoning is the exact sort of thinking that drove US support of brutal dictators during the Cold War. Just replace "Islamists" with "communists", rinse and repeat.

Just because biological systems are very complex doesn't mean we don't know if a particular protein is dangerous or not. The protein in question from the abortive fish tomato is naturally found in certain fish and worms, as well as in winter rye. All of those things are safe to eat. What's more, GM foods have been…

Except you can't even count on less pesticide runoff. Organic farming allows for the use of pesticides, they just have to be naturally occurring and minimally processed. There's nothing in the rules that states those "natural" poisons need to be less dangerous or unhealthy, they just can't have been designed and…

The "fish tomato" is most certainly not sold on supermarket shelves. It was never patented or commercialized. It isn't sold anywhere, much less in most supermarket tomatoes.

I read the I-SIS page too, and it's problematic for a few reasons. First of all, officially sanctioned "organic" farming is different from individual cases where using certain organic techniques enhanced yields. For instance, the contour barriers and plowing touted in Brazil aren't required for an organic label…

I am highly skeptical of those numbers, but even so, it's fairly irrelevant since a world of billions upon billions of people isn't going to be fed with backyard plots and zero mechanization.

Best for the world how? Organic farming requires more land for the same crop yields, often involves copious amounts of "natural" pesticide spraying, and is inimical to GMO crops, which are demonstrably better for global food security.

Organic /= pesticide free. A lot of organic food is produced with even more pesticides than its conventional cousins, and some of those organic pesticides are even worse than the synthetic ones.

Nope, haven't tasted a smidgen of difference, certainly nothing that could be definitively attributed to the "organic" part of the equation. For instance, grass-fed beef and dairy may very well taste different, or even better, but that doesn't mean "organic" grass-fed is going to taste different than non-organic…

What does "properly maintained" mean? Were those conventional farms using the same non-GMO seeds? Was the organic farm using one of the USDA's certified organic pesticides? How were the two farms fertilized, and is it actually feasible to produce enough organic fertilizer to mimic the organic farm's success world-wide?

Which is all well and good, except that organic farming practices tend to require significantly more land to produce similar yields, especially since organic is so heavily wrapped up in anti-GMO fear mongering.

I've never been able to pick up on a taste difference between organic and non-organic food.

Duh, if you have a more complex approach to things like food security than Corporations=Evil and GMO=Against Nature you must be just slurping all your knowledge from Monsanto lobbying handouts.

Word counting aside, none of the people taking, sharing or commenting on these pictures is reading Jezebel, so you're not really putting out a serious call to action here. None of them is going to actually be shamed by a bunch of feminists angrily commenting to each other about how odious the practice is. So yeah,…

The error wasn't calling it a missile. It's clearly a missile, complete with rocket motor. The error was describing it as being "dropped."

US citizens on the ground underneath the blast, like these guys. This was an anti-aircraft missile, designed to take out waves of Soviet nuclear bombers. If it killed or irradiated people below it, it'd be worthless, which is why the yield is so small. 1.5 KT only has a kill radius of ~300 meters.

Well, "safe" as in, it would be safe to detonate this in the air over the U.S. against an incoming wave of Soviet bombers. What they're trying to demonstrate here is that this is a viable defensive weapon.

Eh, I don't think you'd be "fine" necessarily, it'd depend on what kind of shelter you were in, if you looked at the blast, wind direction, etc. Keep in mind, if you're in or near any sort of major city, you're going to be targeted with multiple weapons, and that the threat from fallout lasts for quite awhile and is…

Oh give me a fucking break. Anytime a kids hurts himself, the first reaction from some people is shitting on the parents, but constantly policing a little kid is frigging hard, especially if there's another small kid in the mix. When I was four I opened the basement door to block a doorway and "protect" my little…