Layla Kim

Happily married. Catholic. I Love cooking! I love cats and all animals. Weed through the BS and find the truth! Don’t let them scare you into submission.

[Mountain Cabins @cabinsmountain]

We made the farm look clean.
Straight lines. Big fields. No wild corners. No messy hedges.

So the birds left.
The frogs left.
The insects left.
The soil left.

Then we acted surprised when everything stopped working.

Nature was never the enemy.
Nature was the foundation.

A field without life may look productive today.
Tomorrow, it's a silent desert with crops.

We cleaned the farm…
until nothing was left to save it.

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

I think this summarizes things nicely…
What say you?

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

Perfect! About time! This has no place in schools

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Bison are leading one of the most remarkable ecological comebacks in North American history.

For more than a century, the great herds of the American bison were fragmented, broken into isolated groups by roads, fences, and human development across the Great Plains and Yellowstone region.

Now, in a powerful wildlife success story, those artificial barriers are being overcome. On their own, bison are instinctively reuniting and reopening ancient migration corridors that had been lost for over 100 years.

This isn’t just movement: it’s a profound return to ancestral memory. Large, unified herds are once again flowing across the landscape as they did in centuries past.

As they travel, these iconic animals act as masterful ecosystem engineers. Their powerful hooves aerate compacted soil, their selective grazing encourages the growth of diverse native plants, and their dust wallows create seasonal watering holes that benefit countless other species. In doing so, they spread nutrients and help restore the health of the grasslands.

By simply allowing bison to roam freely across their historic ranges, nature is showing us that wild ecosystems recover best when their original architects are given the freedom to lead.

[Texas A&M University. After 120 Years of Conservation, Yellowstone Bison Are Now a Single Breeding Population. Journal of Heredity]

[Layla Kim @LaylaKim999]

@ThrillaRilla369 Yes!

[Layla Kim @LaylaKim999]

@ginamilan_ They are obsolete.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Before 1904, every autumn in the Appalachian mountains came with a harvest that cost nothing and fed everything...

One in four trees in the forest was an American chestnut. Families gathered them by the bushel from the cabin door — roasting them, drying them, grinding them into meal, feeding them to the hogs that would carry the family through winter. The timber built barns, fence rails, and cradles. The tannin cured leather. Nothing on the hillside went to waste.

Then a blight arrived from imported nursery stock in New York City, and within a single generation, four billion trees were dead. The harvest that Appalachian families had counted on for centuries was simply gone. No warning. No replacement. Just absence where abundance had always been.

The American chestnut blight arrived in the United States around 1904 and spread at roughly fifty miles a year across the eastern forest. By 1950, an estimated four billion trees were functionally gone. The American Chestnut Foundation has spent decades crossing blight-resistant stock in hopes of bringing them back — and the first truly resistant saplings are being planted in these mountains right now.

© Smokey Mountain Blue

#drthehistories

[Layla Kim @LaylaKim999]

@Vitus_osst I prey for the Holy Spirit to come.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Crucifix remains standing after a storm ripped through Chicagoland in Indiana.

Drone footage captured the wreckage with the crucifix standing tall in the middle.

Awesome.

[Layla Kim @LaylaKim999]

@ThrillaRilla369 😂

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The pig was never banned to protect anyone's health. That story was bolted on much later, and it falls apart the moment you look.

We are told the ancient ban on pork was about trichinosis, about a filthy animal and undercooked meat. Anthropologists abandoned that idea long ago. The taboo is thousands of years older than any knowledge of the parasite, several of the permitted animals carried worse, and the law itself says not one word about disease. It sorts creatures by whether they chew the cud and split the hoof, a scheme of categories rather than a code of hygiene. What the rule actually did was draw a hard line around a people. Eat this, refuse that, and you are one of us. The forbidden animal became a border, the simplest test of who belonged, and the work it did was social, never nutritional.

See it once and you cannot stop seeing it.

Japan banned meat for roughly twelve hundred years, from the seventh century until 1872. It wore the robes of Buddhist purity, but it ran on power. The state enforced it, the court treated a meat-eater as polluted, and the bloody work of slaughter was forced onto a despised underclass, shunned for handling the dead. The ban kept nobody well. It marked the clean from the unclean and held every man in his appointed place.

India is the sharpest case of all, because the holy cow is a surprisingly late arrival. The Indians of the Vedic age ate beef, the priests included, and killed cattle at their altars. The worship of the cow and the horror of beef came afterwards, and as the taboo hardened it became the great dividing line of caste. Beef passed to the bottom, the food of the untouchable left to skin the dead animal because no one else would touch it. A rule that began in religion and economics ended as a fence run between human beings, sorting the pure from the despised.

Even Christian Europe ran on the same machinery. For a third of the year and more the medieval Church forbade meat, every Friday, the whole of Lent, fast day stacked upon fast day. It was preached as discipline of the soul. It also happened to be control on an enormous scale, and the rich bought their way straight out of it, paying the Church for a licence to eat the butter the fast denied them while the poor went without. A tower of Rouen Cathedral still stands on the proceeds, known to this day as the Butter Tower.

The pattern barely changes across the centuries. Power decides who eats the good food and who goes short, then dresses the verdict as God, or purity, or science. The nutrition is the costume. The control is the body beneath it.

So be careful, in any age, with anyone who insists that the richest food on the table is the one thing you are forbidden to touch.

[Layla Kim @LaylaKim999]

@waynehhsiung Awesome 👏

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Please Share The Happiness Of A FREED Bear 🐻.

A Bear, forced to live in appalling conditions in a tiny cage at a bile farm for 27 years, is rescued, and playing in a pool at the @AnimalsAsia sanctuary.

Sen realises that he is truly free...❤️‍🩹.

Thank you to everyone who rescued him 🙏.

🎦 Credit: Animals Asia.

[Layla Kim @LaylaKim999]

@realMaalouf What is it?

[Layla Kim @LaylaKim999]

@itsmorganariel He knows too much 🫪