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New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy
MeatBag PussRocket writes "An article from Marketplace.org reports, 'A Florida company has developed an all-natural product that it says could revolutionize how food is grown in the US. It's called Smart Grow, but it might be a tough sell. It's inexpensive. It eliminates the need for pesticides, so it's environmentally friendly, but it's human hair. Plant pathologists at the University of Florida have found the mats eliminate weeds better than leading herbicides and can also make plants grow up to 30 percent larger.'"
and can also make plants grow up to 30 percent larger.'"
Maybe someone needs to use this idea to make a super penis pill!
1 word: cooties
Oh god, that woman is John Romero!
Smart Grow is people!
Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
Agreed and THIS: more people than that die every hour from:
Pencil sharpener mishaps
Loose shoelaces
Ennui
Swine flu (aka Captain Tripps)
Paper cuts
Choking on midgets
Fox News
Staring too long at Rob Malda
Nail biting
Ugliness
Smoking cigarettes
Bad haircuts
Forgetting to breathe
Segway vs. Prius collisions
Snorting bleach
Coding in CSS
Auto-erotic asphyxiation
Cricket attacks
Playing cricket while intoxicated
E.coli
E.fail
Fork/toaster/musical chairs
Chair falls
Chainsaw juggling
Country music
Posting about POSIX compliance on Slashdot
Chewing tinfoil
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Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
"Oh, that pesticide is NASTY! It's like Zyklon-B or nerve gas! And manure is...is... POOP! It's full of GERMS! But: HUMAN HAIR? EeeEEEeeeewww! Gross! Gag me with a spoon! Give me the nerve gas or the cowshit! Now!"
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
Now they really can do something about world hunger!
The musings of just another geek and his junk.
Good to know. I could probably solve world hunger with the cat hair under my furniture.
Maybe I'll be able to get my head and crotch zoned as agricultural now. My efforts to get them zoned commercial were deemed illegal outside of Nevada.
If you didn't come to party don't bother knocking on my door. Prince '1999'
In China, hair is a commodity, used in wigs and even as an additive in food.
OK as an additive in food? That is gross. Wait, hair pie? Nevermind.
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
It's human hair because, being at the top of the food chain, all those nasty chemicals like herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers collect in our bodies in the highest concentrations. Thus our hair is chock-full-o-chemicals. It's no wonder human hair mats have all these wondrous properties -- they are really just recycling all those chemicals we've been putting into the environment for the last 50 years.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Galactic hunger could be solved with Stallman's beard!
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
So just where is all this hair coming from, exactly? Are there 3rd world hair factories where children will be surreptitiously filmed hanging from the ceiling with their hair attached to hooks to make it grow faster, videos of natives explaining just how many beads they get paid for a pound of hair which figures out to a monthly income equivalent of 63 cents, and the poor orphans trotting out missing chunks from their ear where the evil corporate barbers sheared just a bit too fast and cut them for squirming? Will we see Sally Struthers begging us for just $1 a day so the poor hairless masses CAN AFFORD WIGS?!?!
"I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist"
I will then have to put up with people asking if I'm ok, have I lost my job, why am I selling my hair for fertilizer?
Nature can be so cruel.
"You should see the list of extremely toxic chemicals or "product" MOST people put in their hair."
Fixed that for you.
And for those who are in denial, look up the ingredients in your favorite personal care products, then look for the MSDS, and then stfu!
I am soooo cashing in on this! I have hair down to my ass, so lets just say my shower gets clogged frequently. How much do you think they buy it for? I've never died/permed/etc...
:D
This is just like Christmas, only better
i r in ur
Just imagine if copper thieves switched over to hair. Ow.
Shaving your nether regions and using it as a fake beard....
This is like some bizarro world variation of a Chia-head, but I'm not sure how.
..........FULL STOP.
I can see it now - there will be some weed that will adapt to grow on this stuff - something will make the jump. Then we will start to see people who "catch" an infection of dandelions on their head.
New! - Head & Shoulders with Ortho 5 weed killer!!
..........FULL STOP.
Another exercise: look up the ingredients in SALT and then look up what happens when you mix Na with H2O. Can't believe people eat that stuff, ugh.
One weed sadly said to the other.... Hair today gone tomorrow!
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