Nature is Cruel and Kind
The philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described life in nature as “nasty, brutish, and short” a view that continues to resonate with certain members of the populace. Often a man of...
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Nature is Cruel and Kind
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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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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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