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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The Trouble With Phones
By Garth Brown I intended to write and post this last week, but an intense storm blew through and knocked out our power, along with quite a few trees. Luckily,...
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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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Movie Review: The Social Dilemma
By Garth Brown Note: My post last week discussed a new genetic editing technique that will likely soon be coming to a farm animal near you. I do intend to...
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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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Agriculture's Example and GPT-3
By Garth Brown An AI program with a remarkable facility for language has been making news lately. Though some of the excitement around GPT-3 is certainly excessive (read its attempts...
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Cows vs. Wildfires
By Garth Brown An excellent article in The Counter examines the conflict over whether grazing cattle could decrease fires on western rangelands. Proponents say cows could help by removing excess...
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Farming Isn't Bad Enough
By Garth Brown In the public imagination (at least, in my imagined version of the public imagination) farming remains a bucolic activity, consisting of crickets chirping over a field of...
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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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Shut Down The Agribusiness Meat Packers
By Garth Brown On April 26th Tyson Foods ran a full-page ad in several papers, including the New York Times, warning that the “food supply chain is breaking.” This is...
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Food Chain Disruptions and Freakonomics
By Garth Brown I was included in last week’s episode of the Freakonomics podcast, titled “What Happens When Everyone Stays Home to Eat?” I very much enjoyed it, and I...
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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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Why Grass Fed, Grain-free Chicken Doesn't Exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d_2DEBrZtw By Garth Brown If you've watched the video above you might have noticed that I skirt the topic of geese. My whole argument is that chickens are not physiologically...
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