The Intelligent Food Conundrum

Plastic Pollution Limerick

My friend and albatross lover Sybren Renema send me this powerful limerick about the problems of plastic ocean pollution:

There once was an albie from Leith,
Who thought he had plenty to eat,
But his health eroded
'till his stomach exploded
For plastic digests not like meat.

A Haruspex and a Biologist

From looking at the guts of dead albatrosses a biologist can often say how the bird died. And it's usually due to the ingestion of plastic materials. I wonder what a Haruspex would say of our future by looking at those same guts... What do you think? Let me know in the comments. Do you know what a Haruspex is? Well, look it up and learn something new.

A Haiku from the Poet Albatross

This cartoon is based on a Haiku by Julia Fiedorczuk and Gerardo Beltrán for the Ecopoetics project, because some things have to be said with a poem.

Plastic Food

Did you know that Albatrosses and other wildlife die from plastic in their food chain? Plastic Food kills and it's not as if those animals had the healthy food option we arguably do.

You can learn more about this on the Plastic Pollution Coalition website.

Plastic Inflation

There is such a thing as plastic inflation.

Plastic Currency

This one is about Plastic Pollution and a bit about greed.

Darth Vader Poop

Star Wars Poop? Sadly, plastic bits in albatross faeces is not such a rare thing. That's plastic polution for you. Please reuse your plastic bags.

Plastic Haute Couture

Six Pack Rings are a common and persistent environmental problem that needs to be resolved. Read more about it Here

100th Cartoon and Cake

And we'd like to thank you all for staying with us for almost 5 years. Here, have some Cake, but be careful, this particular cake is a Lie. Shall we try to get to 200?

Lighter Pollution

Wish I had Ears

A Traffic Cone

You find all sorts of things drifting in the ocean... *sigh*

The Seventies

Disposable Lighters

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Do you know about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Check it out. but be carefull - it's quite disturbing.