Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
In business, success and growth are generally synonymous. There’s a generalized feeling that if something isn’t growing it is dying. Think of Amazon, which lost money for nine consecutive years...
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Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
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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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Whiskey Mold and the Problems of Scale
When an alcoholic spirit is aged in a wood barrel, an interesting process takes place. Because wood is porous, over time a small amount of the liquid inside a barrel...
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Super Pigs are the New Murder Hornets
I read a recent report about Canadian super pigs with great interest. They sound pretty intimidating — a result of hybridization between wild boar and domestic pigs, these porkers are...
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The Difference Between Diet and Exercise
A couple days ago Alanna and I were discussing an interesting difference between diet and exercise. While people certainly have opinions about exercise, there seems to be noticeably less emotion...
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Why One Farm Shouldn't Raise a Million Pigs
What do you call a farm this is bigger than a factory farm? A mega farm? For years now pork producers in China have been building production units that resemble...
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Kabocha Squash Gratin
I love a good winter winter squash, but I don’t have many go-to recipes other than roasting one or making soup. For kabocha squash, however, neither of these is ideal....
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Grass Fed Beef, Hay Fed Beef
When it comes to grass fed beef, one major source of confusion is the role of hay. If grass fed cows should only eat grass, what’s this hay stuff? How...
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Sous Vide Chuck Steak
Clarifying a confusing topic On paper it sounds perfect. The chuck is one of the most flavorful cuts of beef out there, which is why it makes such great pot...
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Why I Don't Believe in Believer Meat
I sometimes imagine myself a few years in the future, standing in Price Chopper looking at a full display case of lab grown meat. In this vision I am shaking...
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What Dogs Think and Feel
In a tragedy that could have been far more tragic, our dog Oban was hit by a truck earlier this month. He was unconscious for five minutes, and he also...
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