Farm Tech and Fake Food
Farm Tech and Fake Food What Will We Eat and Where Will It Comes From? An annoying part of many contemporary conversations is the endless quibbling over terms. Should we...
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Farm Tech and Fake Food
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Impossible Burger vs. Beef
Impossible Burger vs. Beef How Should We Compare Meat Alternatives to Meat? First, a confession: I have never eaten an Impossible Burger, though my brother has. He reported it to...
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Is Eating Fish as Healthy as Not Smoking?
Is Eating Fish as Healthy as Not Smoking? Omega 3s: Good News and Bad Headlines “Higher levels of omega-3 acids in the blood increases life expectancy by almost five years,”...
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Big Ag Is Not Best
A recent article in Foreign Policy praising industrial caught my attention. (Big Agriculture Is Best by Ted Norhaus and Dan Blaustei-Rejto.) What I noticed was not the list of points...
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The Quest for Healthy Junk Food
By Garth Brown Over the past couple years the company Beyond Meat, maker of fake burgers and sausage, has managed to attract the sort of breathless, credulous coverage that’s usually...
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The End of the Great Nitrate Hoax
By Garth Brown It’s likely you didn’t notice - a few other important topics have been in the news - but a statement by the USDA last month signals the...
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The Definitive Guide to Pastured Turkey
Why You Need This Guide There’s a lot of stress and uncertainty when it comes to cooking the Thanksgiving turkey. This is only heightened when it’s a high-quality, pastured turkey,...
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Don't Put Your Trust in Brands
By Garth Brown Can you guess what Panorama Grass-Fed Meats, Niman Ranch, Coleman Natural, Sonoma Red and now Pasturebird have in common? Given their names it would be natural to...
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How To Fight Genetic Editing
By Garth Brown This is the third post in a series. It should stand on its own, but for the full context read here and here. The recent history of...
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What is Genetic Editing and is it a Problem?
By Garth Brown There’s been a recent advance in genetic manipulation that has big implications for livestock. The process is reasonably straightforward, but a theoretical example can help to explain...
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COVID and the Future of Agriculture
By Garth Brown It’s far too early to say what the long term impact of the coronavirus will be on farming. The industrial food system has failed in obvious ways,...
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Ground vs Whole vs Grass Finished Beef
Ground Beef Basics Ground meat in general and ground beef in particular is a versatile, wonderful food. It works well as the center of a meal in something like hamburgers...
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Dicamba - Worse than Roundup?
By Garth Brown Roundup is the trade name for glyphosate, the most heavily used herbicide in the United States. The main reason for its popularity is the existence of crops...
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