2018 Predictions: The Death Throes of the Anti-GMO Movement
The ability of the anti-GMO movement to frame the debate in mainstream venues has been waning. Is 2018 the year they return to the fringe?
2018 Predictions: GMOs 2.0, a turning point
Three new biotech products recently hit the market that have the potential to steer the GMO debate in more productive directions.
2018 Predictions: This Year Will Be an Inflection Point for Home Meal Delivery
Home meal kit is delivery brittle business model for solving a resilient problem. Look for the herd to be culled and the beginnings of a new model by year’s end.
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.
The Wonder of Christmas Food Past
Food historian Rachel Laudan recounts the Christmas meals of her childhood in 1950’s England and ponders whether children today can summon the same sense of wonder.
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.
10 Conspiracy Theories About RoundUp in a Single Documentary
A recent documentary on RoundUp on Norwegian state television went dumpster diving for some of the most discredited ideas about the popular herbicide.
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.
Well Managed Feedlots: More Eco-Friendly Than You Might Think
Although grass-fed is touted as the environmentally and ethically best choice for beef eaters, feedlots often outperform on both fronts.
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.
What Farmers Can Do About Climate Change: Pest Management
With climate change contributing to increasing pest pressures, integrated pest management provides farmers with sustainable options.
What Farmers Can Do About Climate Change: Grazing
The policy team from the National Farmer’s Union looks at the use of prescribed grazing, silvopasture, and rotational grazing as climate smart strategies.
Guiding Principles for Teaching Farming and Food Systems
UVM horticulture professor Terence Bradshaw lays out his principles for teaching farming and food systems.
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 […]