The Carnivore’s Dilemma by Nicolette Hahn Niman

To a rancher like me, who raises cattle, goats and turkeys the traditional way (on grass), the studies show only that the prevailing methods of producing meat — that is, crowding animals together in factory farms, storing their waste in giant lagoons and cutting down forests to grow crops to feed them — cause substantial greenhouse gases. It could be, in fact, that a conscientious meat eater may have a more environmentally friendly diet than your average vegetarian.

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In America, This Should Not Have To Be Said…

Eating a hamburger should not be a death-defying experience. Too often it is. via Editorial – Toxic Hamburgers – NYTimes.com. This is where Food Policy and Health Policy come together.

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Industrial Agriculture and GMO’s

I grew up with a strong support for the power of technology…But the abuses perpetrated in the name of technological advancement of agriculture in the past few decades have left

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Muses About the State of Agriculture

Nicholas Kristof, writing in his column, had what I think is probably the best definition I have ever seen of the state of our agriculture… I think I figured out

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