Lab-Grown Meat Doesn't Belong in the Farm Bill
Lab-grown meat companies are after a slice of the farm bill. In the words of Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick, “Some country is going to decide to lead the way...
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Lab-Grown Meat Doesn't Belong in the Farm Bill
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Frankenpork and the Future of Food
A pound of corn provides about 1500 calories. A bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds. On average, an acre of United States cropland yields 170 bushels. Add that all up...
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Perils of the Convenience Economy
Perils of the Convenience Economy How fast is too fast? In his book Fulfillment Alec McGillis writes about the impacts and implications of an economy run by Amazon. I was...
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A Farmer's Guide to Planting and Protecting Trees, Part Two
A Farmer’s Guide to Planting and Protecting Trees, Part Two The first years are the hardest, but nature finds a way If you missed last week’s post about all the...
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The False Choices of Big Chicken
The False Choices of Big Chicken No matter what the label says, almost all supermarket chicken is the same Though it resides in the murky area between legitimate and pop...
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The Sorry State of Fake Meat
The Sorry State of Fake Meat Beyond Meat isn’t doing well. Is that good or bad? The share price for Beyond Meat has been in steep decline recently, and this...
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How Many Cows Are There in the World?
How Many Cows Are The in the World? Tracking the Global Cattle Inventory: 1 Billion Cows A few weeks ago I saw a chart claiming that the global population of...
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Simplicity Traps
Simplicity Traps From veganism to strict carnivory, a staggering range of diets can be found on the internet, each backed by a group of well informed adherents armed with reams...
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Cairncrest Kids Chronicle November 2021
Cairncrest Kids Chronicle 2021 The new issue of the Cairncrest Kids Chronicle is out and being shipped with every November order! Below is a sample of the sort of writing...
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The Belcampo Meat Debacle in Four Questions
The Belcampo Meat Debacle in Four Questions What was Belcampo? If you’re hanging out on the website of a farm as obscure as mine, there’s a good chance you are...
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Hair Sheep
Hair Sheep Hair vs. Wool Although most of us naturally associate sheep with wool, it is actually something of an anomaly. Wild sheep, including the mouflon, ancestor to all domestic...
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Cairncrest Kids Chronicle
Cairncrest Kids Chronicle Hard Hitting News, Fresh From the Farm In these days of consolidated, partisan, sensationalist news, it can be hard to know where to go for high quality,...
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Mountains of Sugary Self-Interest
Mountains of Sugary Self-Interest A Strained Argument for the Necessity of Sugar “I think our sugar farmers are among some of the best in the world at what they do,”...
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