Garlicshire - Foodscapes

Garlicshire: a village for lovers of garlic and cabbage

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Tower of People

Members of the Colla 'Jove Xiquets de Tarragona' climb up as they construct a human tower during the 23rd Tarragona Castells Competition on October 3 in Spain.



Photo: Getty Images

Genetically Modified Salmon

Two same-age salmon, one a genetically modified salmon (rear), the other a non-genetically modified salmon (foreground) appear in this photo provided by AquaBounty Technologies. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently been studying whether to approve marketing a genetically engineered animal as safe for people to eat.



AP Photo/AquaBounty Technologies

Pilot Whales Slaughtered

More than 120 pilot whales, slaughtered on July 23, 2010, are pictured on docks in the harbor of Torshavn, Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark. Every year, herds of pilot whales (Globicephala melaena) pass by the shores of the Faroe Islands. In the past fishermen used spears and harpoons, but today the whale hunting equipment is legally restricted to special knives, ropes, and assessing-poles for measurement.




A Faroese man shows his son how to remove teeth from a slaughtered whale's jaw in the harbour of Torshavn, Faroe Islands on July 23, 2010.

REUTERS/Andrija Ilic

Sea of dead fish

n overall view of a massive fish kill in the Bayou Chaland area of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana is pictured in this handout photograph taken on September 10, 2010. The cause of the fish kill has not yet been determined, but the area they were discovered in was impacted by oil from the BP oil spill. Among the fish dead were pogie fish, redfish, shrimp, crabs and freshwater eels.

REUTERS/P. J. Hahn/Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Management

Lady Gaga Raw Meat Dress

Photo of Lady Gaga in raw meat dress. Do you think her raw meat dress is awesome or disgusting?



This dress is an obvious attempt to overwhelm the sensibilities of the viewers of the show and to draw outrage and anger, but overall is a device to capture attention. It seems to have been successful to a certain extent. In a world where the TV is on, people are hooked with the Internet and texting all the same time, each media it trying desperately to grab the all too fickle attention span of the viewers.

How many chairs on a cart

A man pulls a cart loaded with chairs, lots of chairs in Shanghai, China.

( Philippe Lopez, Getty Images / September 2, 2010 )