agriculture
I've long thought GMOs were the most overrated scary issue current liberals care about. But I never quite had the right words. Mark Bittman does: Then there are G.M.O.'s: OMG.
A few victual related items for your Friday afternoon: 1. The fad of celebrity chefs making "runway food" to promote the conspicuous consumption of rich people that then gets celebrated.
Agriculture has spent over half a century fully committed to better living through chemistry, using massive applications of industrial fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides to produce enormous harvests. In the short.
California farmworkers remain nearly as exploited as fifty years ago. Filthy, substandard housing, a lack of water in the fields, pesticide poisoning, and poor sanitation define too much of their.
It's not so much that the beef monopoly is evil. We all know that. It's that the beef monopoly is an evil subsidized directly by taxpayer dollars. That's a problem..
The defeat of the ag-gag bills in every state where agribusiness had them introduced was a major victory in 2013. Even if you don't care about animal rights, where animals.
While I sympathize with the South Dakota ranchers who are suffering from widespread cattle die-offs in the wake of this month's unexpected blizzard, it'd be easier to feel sorry for.
Not only does Megan McArdle not understand how agricultural subsidies work, she creates a myth about giving money to people for working being better than giving money to people for.