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Ethnobotanist with a focus on food crops • Teaches about plant & food science for work • Columnist for @NewScientist & @ObserverUK • Lives with 500 houseplants.
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James Wong
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Maia, this isn’t how ‘expert communicators’ communicate. Especially on their work accounts.
It’s called trolling.
Hope your day improves for you.
@FoodSecurityUK deserves rather better.
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James Wong
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For freshness?
In sealed plastic containers in the fridge.
For flavour?
Short term storage at 20C can improve fruit colour, flavour & nutrition, but greatly accelerates the rate at which they go off.
But what a lovely problem to have! 🍓🍓🍓
twitter.com/libbyworldwide…
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James Wong
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Versus starving to death? Yes it is.
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James Wong
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They don’t. But it seems activists who haven’t studied economics do.
Hence the inverted commas. ☺️
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James Wong
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If you can afford it.
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James Wong
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300% = x3
97% lower than the claim I was refuting
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James Wong
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Maybe!
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Yes!
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James Wong
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Maia, how do you think economists calculate ‘costing little’?
By comparing it to income (financial means).
Otherwise it’s just a arbitrary concept, that is open to wild misterpretation or weird culturalist, classicist, (inc Westerncentric) judgements.
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James Wong
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More tweets on how ‘cheap, year-round food’ is a terrible thing.
It’s almost like people don’t know that having an affordable, year-round food supply is one of our greatest achievements.
(Or that you can only hold this view if you enjoy the privilege of having access to it.)
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James Wong
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Cheaper just means affordable, Maia.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
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James Wong
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Maia, can you point to where I said that?
Having an affordable, year-round food supply is one of humanity’s greatest achievements.
The idea that that is inherently a bad thing can only be held by someone who has had the privilege of having benefitted from it.
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James Wong
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It’s only in the modern West that cheap, year-round abundance of food could ever be made out to be a negative.
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He did?
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James Wong
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And my maternal one!
Long lost brothers?
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James Wong
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I hate this question.
I am always like: ‘Do you have space on the form for an essay?’
twitter.com/guardian/statu…
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James Wong
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So the people qualified in the discipline, who spend years studying it and dedicate their lives to understanding it know less than you?
Well, I guess it’s 2019 after all.
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James Wong
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I’d talk to a dietitian there and ask them whether eating fruit is the same as eating pure glucose.. (Or ask any GCSE biology or food science student.)
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James Wong
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Bloody hell. You work for the NHS?
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