Gift For My Friend, RevivedWerewolf

Gift for my friend, RevivedWerewolf <3

Ode to the frenchiest fry [x]

on Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water (Restored - from The Concert in Central Park)

Announcement takes the world by storm as top researchers discover new flavor humans can't taste. "We already knew about cats not tasting sweet and birds not tasting spicy, but we kinda thought humans had this all covered," one scientist said. "Turns out we're missing out BIG time."

"The dogs got it right. The dogs were totally right," another scientist said while pouting and stamping his feet a little, like he's upset. He described the flavor as "literally so fucking good" and "we can't even taste it."

Newly discovered flavor that's literally so fucking good which unevolved human pissbabies can't even taste is apparently available in abundance--not that we would know--and primarily concentrated in gross wet canned food, garbage with the lid left open, dirty socks, and suspicious mounds of not-mud that are easy to roll in.

"The dogs were literally right. And humans are literally the stupid idiots about this, actually," first author said in interview, while sounding mad about it.

Just a lil guy

idk if i will keep em

kill the rhetoric that americans are so lazy that they won't take farm jobs. americans take labor intensive jobs all the time. the reason no americans will take farm jobs is because agricultural work is exempt from the vast majority of labor laws and labor protections, including the use of child labor. so only immigrants - people who have little to no protection from the law or other options for work - take most of these jobs. we have created a permanent underclass of labor and then say that americans are just lazy for not volunteering to be part of the underclass.

there are actually good discussions to be had about how alienated many americans are from food production (hi hello that's what my only popular post is about), but the real solution to this problem is to protect agricultural workers, citizens or not. ban child labor in its entirety. punish corporations and farm owners that abuse and poison their workers. reform the immigration process so that these people aren't barred from legal protection and recourse.

agricultural workers have been exploited since the dawn of civilization, but the US in specific has been doing this since slavery, and it evolved in the 30s when FDR's labor laws excluded them specifically because most agricultural workers at the time were black. now it's mostly latino immigrants.

food doesn't fucking pick or slaughter itself. but citizens aren't going to take these jobs when the entire industry is rife with abuse - both legal and illegal - and horrific wages and working conditions.