Extraordinary biodiversity results from “rewilding” an economically-marginal English farm.
Only recently understood: the key role of large herbivores in creating savannah (rather than continuous forest).

@stewartbrand,@PatchouliWhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5640191/How-letting-Mother-Nature-reclaim-prime-farmland-produced-breathtaking-results.html …
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interesting. I guess I can see it. earthy flavors can be very satisfying (especially with a good wine/beer pairing) but I don't think I've ever thought as cow dung as an appealing representation of that smell profile.
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Maybe depends on associations. I grew up farmland - the smell has both positive associations and is mildly off-putting for me. I like that combination a lot, in foods. Other examples: poké, fermented stuff, fruits on the edge of decay.
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Also ghastly whisky.
@Meaningness wrote about this as Tantric practice: https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/disgust-as-buddhist-practice … I do love that pungent taste, though. I don’t find it that disgusting, tbh. -
Ahh the strange world of stinky foods. Not so long ago I ate a cheese which tasted like manure - I can definitely relate to your cowpat description. Also, one of the tastiest natural white wines I ever had smelled like really bad feet and tasted like the most delicious peach.
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