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[Rolan7]

Professor Farnsworth:  "Bad news!  It's a suppository!"

[wierd]

Is this a suppository FOR cancer, or a suppository that CAUSES cancer?

(Because Dr Farnsworth probably has both kinds...)

[hops]

A suppository that causes cancer is just asbestos panties.

[Eric Blank]

And a wedgie. Dont forget the wedgie.

[Egan_BW]

Is this a suppository FOR cancer, or a suppository that CAUSES cancer?

(Because Dr Farnsworth probably has both kinds...)

Why can't it do both?

[scriver]

I want ASBESTOS WEDGIE PLUS ULTRA to be my finishing move

[Loud Whispers]

YEAH BOY WE MAKE THE MANBEARPIG

[BlackHeartKabal]

YEAH BOY WE MAKE THE MANBEARPIG

IT IS A TRAVESTY
A BLUNDERING MOUNTAIN OF HATRED AND RAGE

[martinuzz]

A German team lead by Dutch professor of ecology Hans de Kroon concluded a new studies into insect populations. It shows that over the past 27 years, insect populations in nature preserves in Germany have declined by a stunning 75%.
At insect peak moments during summertime, even 80% less insects were found than in 1990.
They conclude that this trend is also representative for other Western European countries, like the Netherlands.

It confirms what people were already intuitively observing, and shows the problem is huge.
Biologists and ecologist raise great alarm. 'We really, really need insects'.

The main suspect is intensive agriculture.
How exactly insect populations could have deteriorated so dramatically remains somewhat of a mystery.
It is thought that various factors, like the use of neonicotinoids, the disappearance of wild growth at farmfield's borders, and the disappearance of irrigation ditches throughout the agrarian landscape all play a role.
One theory believes that dense agricultural areas attract insects, but are unable to sustain them, turning them into an ecological death trap.

So far, this is the most extensive research done so far into the declining insect populations. For 27 years, teams of researchers from the entomological society of Krefeld monitored insect populations every day and night on dozens of locations, using standardized insect traps. At the start of the research, 27 years ago, researches caught about 7-8 grams of flying insects per day, at the end they didn't catch more than 2 grams of insects.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/reden-tot-zorg-dramatische-afname-aantal-insecten~a4522415/
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-three-quarters-total-insect-population-lost.html

EDIT: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-of-ecological-armageddon-after-dramatic-plunge-in-insect-numbers

[Helgoland]

Heh, my dad noticed that a couple years ago - he used a standardized windshield instead of a standardized insect trap though. At least it's good to see that it wasn't just a hunch of his.

So, what do we do?

[martinuzz]

Stop using pesticides, reduce agriculture, let half of the world population die of hunger.

[Trekkin]

Stop using pesticides, reduce agriculture, let half of the world population die of hunger.

So, GMOs, GMOs, and GMOs?

[martinuzz]

What, you want to genetically engineer people to die of hunger faster?

[Loud Whispers]

Stop using pesticides, reduce agriculture, let half of the world population die of hunger.

As much as half of all the food produced in the world – equivalent to 2bn tonnes – ends up as waste every year, engineers warned in a report published on Thursday.

The UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) blames the "staggering" new figures in its analysis on unnecessarily strict sell-by dates, buy-one-get-one free and Western consumer demand for cosmetically perfect food, along with "poor engineering and agricultural practices", inadequate infrastructure and poor storage facilities.

In the face of United Nations predictions that there could be about an extra 3 billion people to feed by the end of the century and growing pressure on the resources needed to produce food, including land, water and energy, the IMechE is calling for urgent action to tackle this waste.

You could do all that without having half the world die of starvation simply by using the half of the food we don't.

YEAH BOY WE MAKE THE MANBEARPIG

IT IS A TRAVESTY
A BLUNDERING MOUNTAIN OF HATRED AND RAGE

I THINK YOU'RE NOT TAKING THIS CEREAL
I'm SUPER CEREAL GUYS

[Trekkin]

What, you want to genetically engineer people to die of hunger faster?

No. I'm just well aware that any attempt to genetically engineer crops that don't need any pesticides (instead of monopolized ones), intensive agriculture, or insects is going to have so much corporate baggage attached that half the world won't be able to afford it and will die of hunger before the first world takes enough notice for it to be a PR problem.