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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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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Bamboo Scams and Environmental Farming
Farmers are as prone to chasing trends as anyone else. In the past couple decades there have been alpaca bubbles, pigeon pyramid schemes, and absolute manias for a couple different...
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Boyhood
“Do you think you cut a diamond with a tool or with a laser?” my son asked a few days ago. “A tool,” I replied. “Yes, because a laser is...
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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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Easy Pork and Rice
Easy recipes are rarely as simple as they sound on paper. There’s usually a strange ingredient, a finicky technique, a cooking step that requires hawklike watchfulness, or just a big...
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Grilled Drumsticks with Miso-Honey Sauce
Drumsticks are my favorite cut of chicken to grill. The meat has plenty of flavor, which means the a good char is complementary rather than overwhelming. They are also much...
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Eat Ice Cream for Your Health
Pictured above: the bowl of ice cream I ate immediately after writing this. If I told you that ice cream was healthy, would you believe me? What if I got...
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Memory, Children, Rabbits, Death
This time of year the grass is sweet and green, perfect for grazing, but it grows so fast the herd can never keep up. The trouble is that pasture isn’t...
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Easy Pork Shoulder "Stir Fry"
Stir fry is delicious. Done properly, it consists of meat and veggies sliced paper thin, cooked in small batches in a screaming hot wok, then served and eaten immediately. The...
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Are Cattle Getting mRNA Vaccines?
Over the past month or so I’ve received a bunch of calls and emails asking me this. I’ll get the answer out of the way quickly: no, they are not....
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Can Horizon Dairy Go Carbon Positive By 2025?
“Carbon Positive by 2025!” reads a line of text on a carton of Horizon Organic Milk, a claim I’ve been seeing more frequently on the products of both large and...
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Coffee is Better than Meditation
One beautiful day in late April during my senior of high school I made a plan with my friend Mark. During our next period we would ask our teachers if,...
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Ethical Monks vs. Skyscraper Lettuce
In an increasingly homogenized food system, chartreuse stands out, both because it has three centuries of history and because it is bizarre. Compounded from a secret blend of hundreds of...
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