Thinking through Pollan’s Farmer in Chief: The Title

Given the rest of his article, I assume that Pollan intends his presumptive title for the President of the United States–farmer in chief–to contrast with the traditional role of Commander…

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Thinking Through Pollan’s Farmer in Chief: Preliminaries

OK. Here’s what I am going to do. Michael Pollan had thirteen printed pages for his Farmer in Chief article in the New York Times Magazine. I can’t churn out…

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It all depends what you mean by organic

That’s one of Adam Balic’s many useful comments on my earlier posting, “Is organic the right way to go?” I’ve got to start somewhere so why not here. And, clearly,…

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