Rachel Laudan

Last week Onkel Bob posted a long response to my post, Bread first or beer first? A bad question. He made several interesting points but the most important point, to which he kept returning, was “How did agriculture start at all?” or “What prompted widespread fields?”
That’s an interesting question.  But in my opinion it is [...]

I’ve often wondered on this blog when all those smart farmers out there were going to start talking.  Well, here’s Blake Hurst, an absolute must read.
Mr Hurst has a distinguished career in farming and related industries, and besides has published in venues such as the Wilson Quarterly and the Wall Street Journal. And if you [...]

That phrase (taken from Tana Butler’s comment a week or so ago), or something close to it, has become one of the slogans that food activists use to suggest that large scale modern livestock farming is a disaster.
And it does sound pretty horrid, doesn’t it?  We wouldn’t want to stand in our feces and urine.  [...]