2018 Predictions: Plant Meat 2.0 Goes Mainstream
With Beyond Burger hitting TGIFridays menus and the Impossible Burger remaking upscale bar menus, watch for Plant Meat 2.0 in your aunt’s fridge later this year.
Articles by Marc Brazeau
New Year’s Resolution: Read More Press Releases
Looking for a New Year’s resolution that won’t trigger any guilt when you fail? Take a little time and read up on the latest research in plant breeding every now and then.
How to Deal with Raw Milk and the Food Sovereignty Movement
Our food safety laws are meant to protect us in an impersonal, mass market. Motivated raw milk consumers and producers need an orderly way to opt out.
Why Michael Pollan is Wrong About Junk Food and Farm Subsidies
Michael Pollan blames farm subsidies for making junk food cheap. He’s wrong. Here’s why.
Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Need Access to More Than Just Tractors
Instead of focusing on the supply of subsidised machinery, governments should provide public goods and services to support the emerging private markets. Such support includes strengthening the capacity of the education and training domain, improving the customs process, maintaining market stability, and focusing on institutional solutions for smallholders.
What Happened to the Holiday Pudding in America?
For much of our history, puddings played a large role in both our everyday and special occasion cooking. Today, not so much. Helen Zoe Veit explains why.
Recipe: 13 Bean Soup: (meatless)
Here’s a grown up, sophisticated meatless 13 bean soup that will satisfy vegans and carnivores equally.
Test Drive: The Beyond Burger
Taking the Beyond Burger out for a test drive. While a bit spendy, this Plant Meat 2.0 burger is meal both carnivores and vegetarians can love.
Conservation Cooking: 13 Bean Soup
For chefs and cooks wanting to support sustainable agriculture, no better place to start than this 13 Bean Soup recipe hearty, refined, and restaurant ready.
Heritage Radio Show Notes
Tillage Stats [PDF] Farmers applied tillage practices on 278.8 million acres in 2012, including no till on 96.5 million acres, conservation tillage on 76.6 million […]
Notes for OMSI Panel
Selected readings • The 10 Minor Realizations That Flipped My Thinking About GMOs • GMOs: An Introduction • On So-Called “Superweeds” • Answering the 3 Most Common Internet […]
Who Pays to Steward the Commons?
Environmentalists want fisherman to pay for fishery management. Fisherman say the fees are onerous. Who should pay to steward the commons?
Food Evolution: The FAFDL Interview
Food Evolution film makers Scott Hamilton Kennedy and Trace Sheehan sit down with the Food and Farm Discussion Lab community for a free wheeling chat about making the film, the state of the GMO debate, and doing science communication well.
Birds and Bees Power Bars Recipe
In our continuing effort to spur consumption of oats and save the world, I present you with the recipe for Birds and Bees Power Bars.
Merging Agromodernism with Skepticism: A Manure Detection Kit
What happens when you combine the principles of ecomodernism with the tools of scientific skepticism? Agromodernism: A pragmatic path to sustainable food production.
Wage Theft and Class War
. . . Now, let’s imagine that a waitress decides that it’s not worth haggling with her supervisor everyday over the $10 a day the restaurant owes her to fill the gap between her $2.13 wage, her tips and the $7.25 an hour she is supposed to be making. But then she makes the wrong, but perhaps understandable decision to start skimming the $10 a day by pocketing the check for a table or two each day that pays in cash that she avoids ringing in.
Tricks Are for Kids
To get a first hand feel for this creepy phenomenon, I hoofed it over to my local Fred Meyer to browse the cereal aisle, a place I’ve only stopped in once before to grab some store brand bran flakes for homemade muesli. There they were, relegated to the bottom shelves. And here’s the creepy thing. They were looking up at me, trying to make eye contact from the place on the floor.
Let’s Stop Burying the Lede in the Organic vs Conventional Debate
Debunking too often tends to be a team sport and just because it’s inevitable, doesn’t mean it’s not a problem. In food and farm issues, only biotech drives more debunking than the Organic vs Conventional debate. When you are responding to misinformation the “other” side has already defined the terms of the debate and it’s hard to bust out of those frames. Often that means the big picture gets lost.
WAPO Reporting on Organic Dairy Underscores a Core Problem with Organic
Recent reporting on organic dairy production in the Washington Post underscores a preoccupation with the aesthetic appeal of organics and little interest in the environmental impacts.
3 Takeaways from the Azure Farms Weed Debacle
The weed management issue in Sherman County has been resolved but it still sheds light on three groups of stakeholders.