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Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food
Damien1972 writes "To confront rising salinization, authors writing in the journal Science recommend increased spending on saline agriculture, which proposes growing salt-water crops to feed the world. Jelte Rozema and Timothy Flowers believe that salt-loving plants known as halophytes could become important crops, especially in areas where the salt content of the water is about half that of ocean water."
I am sick of salting my popcorn anyway.
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." Hayek
Next step, salt water taffy farms.
So why don't we just artificially mutate the human race, to have have gills, so that we can all just live in the ocean?
And eat coral and seaweed, and stuff like that.
If we lived in the ocean, we might more enjoy eating stuff that grows there . . . like each other!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
It's got electrolytes!
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
At least we can finally fix the unwashed part of the whole unwashed masses thing...
yes, why don't we convert more wetlands, seeing how well Louisiana fared with Katrina!
You've obviously never eaten Pringles then.