JoshTay

JoshTay t1_j1m57q0 wrote

Reply to TIL the song "Buffalo Gals" sung by the future Mr. and Mrs. Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life" is about the prostitutes of Buffalo, New York. by baby_blue_eyes

From another source:

>Written by Cool White, [aka John Hodges] it was originally published as “Lubly Fan” in 1844. A favorite of minstrel audiences, its words were easily changed to reflect the location of each performance (e.g. Buffalo Gals, Charleston Gals, Mobile Gals, etc.). The song was popular through the war.

"Lubly Fan" was a bastardization of "lovely fanny".

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JoshTay t1_j0b4wio wrote

Reply to Inadequate pollination has led to a 3-5% loss of fruit, vegetable, and nut production and an estimated 427,000 excess deaths annually from lost healthy food consumption and associated diseases, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and certain cancers by Wagamaga

Ironically one of the problems is bees. The hives that are carted from farm to farm for pollination don't neatly stay in the intended crop area and compete for food with native species. Most bee species do not live in colonies or produce honey, but are vital pollinators, servicing many plants that honey bees would ignore . These are also the ones most vulnerable to agri-chemicals.

As the pollination rates fall on plants in-the-wild, that affects the wildlife that depends on foraging. This is not just affecting human nutrition.

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