America Needs Farmers, Just Not Their Politics
America Needs Farmers, or more accurately needs a strong agricultural industry, but do they need the regressive politics that come with them?
Tagged: agriculture
A Beef: No, Joe Biden Is Not Going To Take Away Your Burgers
Putting the hysterics of the Daily Mail, Starnes, Boebert, and their followers aside, beef isn’t going anywhere.
Rise of the Weed Killing Agriculture Robots
Add weed killing to the list of things the robotic age may change in the near future. Big name chemical companies, who produce the herbicides vital for mass agriculture, are making plans that might affect not just farmers but the billions of dollars in equipment that delivers their product to the fields.
Foodie Self-Sufficiency
Here’s a provocative post from Felix Salmon on why local self-sufficiency is preferable to free trade in the context of agricultural production.
In Defense of Industrial Agriculture
Via NR, the author of “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals” unloads another broadside against critics of modern agriculture.
the omnivore’s delusion
Blake Hurst takes the “agri-intellectuals” to task. I think he does make quite a few good points. I’m not an agri-intellectual myself, nor do I know a great deal about food in general beyond...
