Why jamon serrano is not a cured meat (according to the USDA)

By arbitrarily removing salt and sugar from their rightful place as chemical compounds, the USDA eliminates hundreds of products that are traditionally cured with one or both of these chemicals. So, in the obfuscating terminology of…

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How Mexicans are escaping rural poverty (and not going north)

    The New York Times a couple of days ago had a long and well researched article on the slowing of Mexican migration to the United States. Yeah. Mexican…

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Prince Charles: Agribusiness Personified

Wikipedia has a short, clear article on agribusiness. It contrasts two meanings. 1) Within the agriculture industry, agribusiness is widely used simply as a convenient portmanteau of agriculture and business, referring…

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