HSUS PETA and SHARK I need help understanding

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SPCA, Shelters...everyone...struggles to make money to feed animals and care for them. Why is it organizations that dont even have animals in possession are making millions?

is there a problem? Maybe I could make millions on people being retarded.

so four major things I HAVE to do in life

1) Take down PETA
2) Take down SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness...mainly a rodeo focus)
3) Take down HSUS...or at least change them
4) Take down Microsoft

so whats wrong with PETA? Everything...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wishes to destroy every pet animal. They have ben cited for throwing dead bodies onto highways and even spent millions on a freezer. Worst story I have been able to read (not the worst but those make me sick) is about a dog. She had a litter, was very skinny, and was diagnosed with cancer. PETA fought to keep her out of the shelter and to let her roam the streets. Is the freedom worth it? Doesnt sound very ethical to me.

Ok so most people think rodeos look bad. SHARK is a ridiculous organization based and targeted to city people and people that have no idea what rodeos are about. Rodeos are sports where a cowboy/girl demonstrates their ability to do things that were necessary back in the day. Roping a calf and tying it up is a lot safer than leaving it to survive on its own in the wilderness...or even leave males intact where they can go and break a cows back. So whats with bull/bronco riding? With bulls...how else did you expect to keep up with a loose bull? Chase it in a Mercedes? Same with horses (although that was normally used for breaking...which isnt used today).

HSUS...not the worse thing...but very racist like PETA. They are also against keeping pit bulls alive as well as other animals. However they focus mainly on encouraging proper care (when they arent trying to commit genocide). I just think they dont need the millions they make when they arent even helping shelters....except to commit genocide.

Microsoft was only included in this cause I hate it SO much that I feel I always need to include it in hate rants.

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Aquaponics Strawberries

Yum.

I love strawberries, and spend way too much money each year in keeping the fridge stocked.

I cant get enough of them.

Here are some free strawberries  from the backyard.









Some are from the aquaponics system, and some from the dirt along the side of my house.

I planted a stack in one blue barrel grow bed, and a stack more in the ground along one side of my house.

The strawberries grown in the aquaponics system are always bigger and juicer. They also look better. Always big and perfectly formed. But Im not convinced they taste any better. In fact I think the ones out of the ground may actually taste better.

When growing grapes for wine, I understand you dont want too much rain as this makes the fruit bigger, but lowers the amount of sugars per lump of grape.

Or so Im told.

This might have something to do with why the strawberries seem to taste better out of the ground. The ground strawberries get watered once a day when its hot, and every couple of days if its not.

The aquaponics strawberries have as much water as they want when ever they want it.

Or...

It could have nothing to do with that. I cant be sure which went where, but there were two batches of strawberry plants. One batch was fully grown mature plants, and the other batch were all new runners. I seem to remember planting the runners in the aquaponics system because they were smaller, and I wanted to see if they would catch up to the others. But I also remember not doing that. I remember mixing them up so I would get a sample from each. I remember a few other contradictory things as well.

So... possible that they taste different.

But I think its going to prove to be water content.

I think Ill do some experiments with the runners from both batches to see if there is any difference when all plants are the same age. Both beds are producing runners, so I think I should know within a few months.

Another thing to try, might be to change how long the aquaponics plants have wet feet. I should be able to control very precisely how much water the plants are exposed to.

I have an electric tap from a sprinkler system, so I might try to make some kind of moisture sensor, and perhaps try letting their roots get almost dry before giving them more water. I have no idea if such a thing is even possible, so Ill find out.

Or...

It could be that the strawberries dont taste as good when they are hot. Very few of the fruit ever make it into the house. Most get eaten straight from the plant, and there is a huge difference between the temperature of the narrow, protected side of the house, and those grown in a hot house. Now that I think of it, I think strawberries grow well in places like England. Im not sure if England is called England or not, but that place thats sometimes called England seems to be the kind of place people grow things like strawberries.

Perhaps a hot house makes the fruit taste different.

Ill have to find some more information.

Im being very fussy here.

All the strawberries from my back yard taste much better than anything Ive ever bought from a shop. Shop strawberries are always under-ripe, and seem to be made of something other than strawberry.

Thats store bought on the left, and back yard grown on the right.

Even with this poor photo, you can see the difference.

I can also smell the difference.

And if you drop a store bought strawberry into a clear drink, you get a strawberry in a drink. But the back yard ones colour the clear drink strawberry colour.

I count aquaponics and dirt grown strawberries as a total success.




120 Things in 20 years - I think Il buy a second hand digital SLR camera so I can take better photos of strawberries and.

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