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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Addictive Seltzer: Examining a Bold Claim
The chemicals in LaCroix Here are a few wacky things I believe: that anyone who puts raisins in stuffing is a monster; that the combination of social media and artificial...
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When to be a Techno Skeptic
My Grand Theory of Technological Progress Lately I’ve been luxuriating in the ocean of articles detailing the troubles faced by Meta, nee Facebook. So far, the pivot from being a...
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Limitations and Local Food
I am at heart a localist, particularly when it comes to food. Problems like dismal animal welfare standards, exploited farm workers, and certain environmental impacts are made much more tolerable...
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Will There Be A shortage of Thanksgiving Turkeys?
While shopping for pens and other knick knacks for the kids, I noticed something interesting. Everything was almost out of stock. There were only nine of the blue pens I...
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Is Food Palatability A Useful Concept?
The idea that weight gain occurs when a person eats more calories than they burn and loses weight when they burn more calories than they eat is obviously true; gaining...
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The Stupidest Thing I've Ever Done
In the early years of the farm we had a wonderful neighbor named Don. He’d retired from dairying in the 90s, but he still planted a little corn, which he’d...
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Land Use Change and You
The big idea you’ve (probably) never heard of When thinking about how cattle contribute to climate change, most public focus falls on methane. It’s a gas emitted by ruminants, and...
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Watch Out for Wild Fork Foods
Watch Out For Wild Fork Foods Rotten Meat, Corruption, and Your New Neighborhood Butcher Wild Fork Foods has stores popping up in cities across the country. It looks like a...
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What Growing All Your Own Food Might Look Like
An exercise in imagination Picture it: it’s your first day exclusively eating food you’ve grown yourself. This moment has been months in the making, from planning a garden to getting...
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How to Grow Everything You Eat
How to Grow Everything Extreme opinions attract the most attention online. This dynamic can be innocuous, if stupid, as in the case of sports, or incredibly corrosive, as in the...
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Pork Inferno
Pork Inferno When cooking goes wrong Building a cinderblock oven is simple. Smooth out an area of ground, decide on a size, then stack up four courses of cinderblocks, leaving...
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Werewolf Agriculture
Werewolf Agriculture The spookiest thing about werewolves (aside, perhaps, from being giant, bloodthirsty man-beasts) is their double nature; the werewolf that comes prowling around your door one night might return...
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Cornell Pork Chops
Cornell Pork Chops A new twist on an old favorite If you’ve spent any time in central or western New York, you’ve likely noticed that lots of groups from churches...
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