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“All this extra work is affecting women’s health. We have long known that women (in particular women under fifty-five) have worse outcomes than men following heart surgery. But it wasn’t until a Canadian study came out in 2016 that researchers were able to isolate women’s care burden as one of the factors behind this discrepancy. ‘We have noticed that women who have bypass surgery tend to go right back into their caregiver roles, while men were more likely to have someone to look after them,’ explained lead researcher Colleen Norris.

This observation may go some way to explaining why a Finnish study found that single women recovered better from heart attacks than married women – particularly when put alongside a University of Michigan study which found that husbands create an extra seven hours of housework a week for women. An Australian study similarly found that housework time is most equal by gender for single men and women; when women start to cohabit, ‘their housework time goes up while men’s goes down, regardless of their employment status’.”

- Caroline Criado-Pérez’s Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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The Waterbearers, by Victor Renault des Graviers (detail)

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Katie Jane Garside

Anonymous asked:

I more meant the fact that there being a cave full of cheese was evidence for too much cheese in the US being the joke. It was probably a bit unfair because I have no clue about US dairy, and if there is too much cheese there. Just that cheese being in caves seems completely normal to me.

Caves are cold, dark and humid - the perfect conditions for aging cheese, and storing it, in the days before fridges. Lots of hard cheese are PDO (protected designations of origin) because the microbes that create that specific type of cheese are found there.

There is a reason most cheeses come from mountainous areas because there are suitable caves there (and usually named after that place). Parmesan (Parma, Alps, North Italy), Gruyère (Gruyere, Alps, Switzerland), Chaddar (Cheddar Gorge, Mendip hills, UK).

Sorry again for assuming I just honestly thought this was general knowledge. Now I'm confused if this is a wierd ND fact that just I know or if other Europeans do too?

bunjywunjy answered:

oh no, we age and store cheese in caves here in the US too! that’s normal.

no, the unusual part of this whole Secret Government Cheese thing is NOT the storage location.

what’s unusual about the Springfield Underground Cheese Hoard is the sheer mind-boggling scale of it:

there is more than 1.4 BILLION pounds of cheese in storage at this facility.

Billion. with a 🅱️.

cheddar, swiss, muenster, you name it they got it! this all used to belong to the US Government, but apparently Kraft bought most of it recently and are now sitting on what may be the single largest collection of dairy products in the world.

no word on their nefarious plans for this much condensed lactose destruction, but it’s a solid assumption that if you ask them for a slice they’ll just laugh you out of the building.

[thefloatingstone]

Originally posted by sehro

[sorens-sickness]

THE CHEESE HOARD!!!

Story time for anyone confused as to why the US government has (had apparently) BILLIONS of pounds of cheese in storage. TLDR: The government has been subsidizing the price of dairy for decades.

So many many decades ago, before the infamous Got Milk campaign of the 90’s, diary farmers were struggling. They were caught in a vicious cycle of not enough demand for their products so they’d have to raise prices to get by. Higher prices meant less demand since fewer people could afford to buy milk and cheese, and on and on.

Now it turns out that dairy farmers were a pretty big voting bloc and they cared only about two things: the price of dairy and not going bankrupt. So they voted into office politicians who promised to deliver on those two things, and deliver they did. By passing laws to drive the price of milk down and increase its demand. How did they do this, you might ask. Simple. By having the government buy up all the excess diary on the market. Win-win, right? The farmers get paid and don’t go bankrupt. The price of dairy stays affordable for consumers since the farmers no longer have to charge an arm and a leg in order to get by.

Except now dairy farmers have a guaranteed market. They know that the government will buy up any milk that doesn’t go to the consumer market. So they start expanding and producing more and more milk and selling it to the government. Then they use the profits they’ve made to lobby for more and continued subsidies. Now the government is stuck. They can’t stop buying the milk cause that would crash the market since now there is WAY too much supply for consumers to meet, and anyone who suggests changing the subsidies gets voted out of office anyways.

So what does a government do with a runaway dairy industry and more milk than anyone can possibly manage? Well first they orchestrate a nation wide advertising campaign to increase the public’s consumption of milk and milk products, hence the Got Milk any why “dairy” is a category on the food pyramid. But that only solves half the problem. They still have way too much milk. So they store it away. They turn it into cheese and seal it away in caves and old salt mines. And give it away anywhere they can.

Incidentally, this is also why milk is in everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. It’s in your medication, it’s in your spice and seasoning packets, it’s in your french fries, it’s everywhere. Cause it’s cheap and if the government can encourage a use for it, they will.

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CRANE, Walter
A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden: Dandelion
1899
Lithograph
British Library, London

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James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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NICOLA DEL ROSICO‘ s Apartment and Studio, Gaeta, Italy, 1979