factory farming

On genetic inheritance and sexual assault.

Violence flourishes whenever people want control without putting in the work. But humans can stand against injustice.

January 27, 2018

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Ecology, Evolutionary biology, Violence against women

animal breeding, arranged marriage, CAFO, consent, duck genitalia, duck rape, duck sex, ducks, evolution, factory farming, feminism, feminist, forcible fertilization, freedom, freedom of choice, gender violence, genetic inheritence, injustice, instinct, instinctual behaviors, interspecies sexual assault, lek mating, male feminists, manakin, mate choice, mating strategies, Mean, Myriam Gurba, orangutan, parenting, patriarchy, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, puppy mill, rape, rape culture, rape in nature, sexual assault, sexual autonomy, sexual violence, slut shaming, smooth guardian frogs, the opportunity to consent is sexy, violative assault, violence, what does evolution want, zoo, zoos
On Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth.’

What if technological innovations are a cause of, not a solution to, our post-1970s economic morass?

September 2, 2016

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Economics, Parenting

Amazon, artificial intelligence, automation, CAFO, clean water, concentration of wealth, delivery drones, distribution of wealth, driverless cars, economics, electric appliances, factory farming, feminism, future technologies, GDP, GDP is not an effective measure of quality of life, GDP undercounts the value of caregiving, guaranteed basic income, Impossible Foods, increasing gains to capital, invention, labor versus capital, negative tax, no one’s choices should be curtailed because of gender, parenting, Pat Brown, pessimism, poverty causes stress, productivity, quality of life, reparations, Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert Gordon, robotics, slow growth, social breakdown, Steven Rattner, technological progress, the value of a stay-at-home parent, wealth tax, William D. Nordhaus, women’s work has been historically undervalued
On hunting.

I saw many posts on the internet from people upset about hunting, specifically hunting lions. And eventually I watched the Jimmy Kimmel spot where he repeatedly maligns the Minnesota hunter for shooting that lion, and even appears to choke up near the end while plugging a wildlife research fund that you could donate money to. And,…

August 6, 2015

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts

aid to developing nations, an open invitation to stop by for dinner, animal cognition, animal intelligence, animal welfare, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, Barbara Ehrenreich, barbecue, Blood Rites, Bloomingveg, CAFOs, captive-animal hunting, Cecil, Cecil the lion, cognitive dissonance, concentrated animal feeding operation, conservation, directed evolution of virulent bacteria, distribution of wealth, do humans need to eat meat, dosing farm animals with subtherapuetic levels of antibiotics is evil, Ducks Unlimited, eat your ethics, Ecology, environment, environmentalism, ethical exemptions, ethics, ethics for sale, factory farming, food, foolhardy farming practices, Goodwell Nzou, guns, habitat loss, habitat maintenance, hunting, hunting in state parks, hunting license, hypocracy, intensive animal farming, Jimmy Kimmel, local food movement, meat, medical discoveries, monetary aid, money, nature, Origins and History of the Passions of War, overpopulation, people are more important than lions, philosophical consequences of being born a heterotroph, pigs, pigs are smarter than lions, poaching, poverty, reparations, running terrified during deer season, subtherapuetic levels of antibiotics, terror, the coming health crisis, trophy hunting, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, wasting food, wetland preservation, zoo abuses

factory farming

On genetic inheritance and sexual assault.

On Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth.’

On hunting.