Monday, November 16, 2009

Farming and Jellyfish

One of these days I'll do a real post again, I promise!

But for now, here is an inintended consequence of modern agriculture: the runoff coupled with rising sea temperatures creates ideal habitat for jellyfish. We are going to have to start eating these things soon if we continue to deplete our farmland and fail to conserve the ocean's fish.

2 comments:

MrILoveTheAnts said...

I would be curious to know what kind of compost they decompose into. Bring those things up on land cut them up there.

Michelle Clay said...

The phraise "peanut-butter and jellyfish sandwitch" keeps coming to mind. . .