Natural resource economist, geographer, meanderer, informed agitator, immigrant Trans rights are human rights Landback 💧Dall’acqua salata a quella dolce e zozza💧 Personal account - these are my views, not my employer’s
Controversial opinion (?): Iowa’s sweet corn - mind you, despite the perception out there the state is NOT a top producer of sweet corn - is way too sweet. Farmers’ market or grocery store, it’s cloyingly sweet and overpowers dishes. esmis.nal.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
Never have I been happier to be a AAUP member than today.
AAUP🧵on the AAUP endorsement of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary, the first-ever electoral endorsement in the organization's 110-year history. 1
BTW what you see on the right is a gravel road: big ag knows these CAFOs are awful facilities and so they are hidden away. In Iowa and other ag-ruled states they keep passing ag gag laws (that the courts tear down). What happens on the inside is much worse than that the smell and carcasses outside.
Silvia SecchiOne of my major pet peeves about the visuals of Iowa’s agriculture is that they show animals out and about in the farm free range. This is a hog Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO). The one in three US 🐖 raised in Iowa all come from places like this. The animals are never outside. Iowa beef… 1/
One of my major pet peeves about the visuals of Iowa’s agriculture is that they show animals out and about in the farm free range. This is a hog Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO). The one in three US 🐖 raised in Iowa all come from places like this. The animals are never outside. Iowa beef… 1/
Chances that corn would have been burned in your car nowadays are about 60%. And you would be paying for it with multiple subsidies (crop insurance, conservation, disaster payments). I’d rather enjoy these instead. Better in so many ways.
Silvia SecchiThe floodplain of the Upper Iowa River where the Community Prairie has now been restored was a corn field right up to the water. Because stewards of the land and blah blah blah
The floodplain of the Upper Iowa River where the Community Prairie has now been restored was a corn field right up to the water. Because stewards of the land and blah blah blah
Silvia SecchiFloodplains are for prairies CC @potamologist.bsky.social
This is the waterfall and spring right above the Upper Iowa River - a local told us the water coming from the spring is still above the drinking water nitrate limit.
Silvia SecchiMy god you can see all the way to the (admittedly very shallow at the moment) bottom
I think rather than running on water quality Rob Sand is running to catch up with the salience of the issue. As for Iowa State University (one of the entities in charge of the nutrient reduction strategy, their website is even run by ISU) faculty speaking on water quality issues…
I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog SuspectALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspectstatic.klipy.comCivil EatsCome November, many Iowa voters will be choosing candidates based on their plans to address water contamination and rising cancer rates. “I feel like we have representatives right now who don’t care,” one voter said.
People being able to go tubing in town without fearing weird infections is environmental justice too.
Silvia SecchiBehold! A clean(ish) Iowa River and people recreating in it. What would this state and the rest of the Midwest look like if all our rivers were clean?
Here’s the NYT profiling Josh Turek and (of course) injecting cropaganda in the discourse: “large swath” is max 3% of 3.3 million people, you do the math. “Iowa, home to a large swath of the country’s agricultural community that has been deeply affected by soaring prices”
Senate candidate Josh Turek handcycles the Iowa campaign trailState Representative Josh Turek, the Democrat running to flip Iowa’s open Senate seat, cycled with his hands at an Iowa biking event that took place between two cities nearly 60 miles apart.www.nytimes.com