Old Dogs, Old Tricks
Edmund went away for a long weekend, which meant I was on livestock duty and also that the animals weren’t on their best behavior. On Friday I was drinking my...
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Old Dogs, Old Tricks
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Farm Beauty Standards
People have written endlessly about beauty standards and the malign influence of advertising, Instagram, and fashion magazines on our collective idea of what a healthy, attractive human looks like. But...
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Beef Shanks Pasta with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
One great quality of beef shanks is that basically the only way to mess them up is to undercook them. They contain so much collagen that they are in no...
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Why We're Getting Worse at Thinking
Thinking about thoughts is tricky, and writing about thinking about thoughts is trickier still. There are endless very interesting discussions to be had about just what a thought is: completely...
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Plastic Brains and Hard Choices
It seems like a day can’t go past without microplastics turning up in some new part of the human body. Recent studies have claimed to find them in lungs, livers,...
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Food Should Be Less Efficient
I love the immediacy of farming. Unlike, say, developing an SaaS business that provides a suite of analytics tools designed to help identify and forecast trends in mid cap stocks,...
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Regenerative Farming Gets Sprayed
A vehicle used to spray pesticides at the scale required by industrial ag looks like a combination of a tractor, a truck, and a crane. It sits on narrow, tall...
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Thinking In Circles
If you’ve ever been bored on a long flight across America, you may have looked out your window and noticed clusters of perfect circles traced on the ground below. These...
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Do Beetles Have Taste Buds?
Berries are the purest food. I don’t mean this in some sort of moral or sense, and I don’t mean that they are the healthiest food. What I mean is...
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Dogs and Overbreeding
My son Ellis has recently acquired a book about dogs. In addition to numerous stories about notable canines through history (which the book calls “Top Dogs”, of course) it discusses...
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It's Time to Give Up On Lab-Grown Meat
Whether or not lab grown meat ever makes it into grocery stores will hinge on cost. No one disputes the fact that certain genetic lines of cow cells can be...
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Grilled Chicken Wings in Miso Marinade
Confession time: I don't like wings very much. At least, I don't like the ones that come from a pizza parlor, deep fried then tossed in so much syrupy sauce...
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Lunchables and Microplastics
The Focus on Lead A recent study by Consumer Reports found elevated, though not illegal, levels of lead and cadmium in prepackaged lunch meals. Lunchables is the most famous version,...
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Bringing Down The Industrial Food System
The story of food for the past hundred years has been one of industrialization. This is true of farming — we’ve gone from horses to 600 horsepower tractors — but...
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