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The Animal Lover’s Dilemma
Today’s guest blog by Elizabeth Vandeventer of Davis Creek Farm, Nelson County, Virginia. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Univ. of North Carolina....
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Obesogens
Multiple choice question: What does the “Obesity Epidemic” have to do with agriculture? What epidemic? Obesity is an age old problem, and this “epidemic” is an invention of the press and the diet...
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Overpopulation? Don’t Bet On It.
If you are concerned with overpopulation, you may have noticed that The Bet is back in the news. The Bet involved Paul Ehrlich who, for those of you too young to remember, was the Stanford biologist...
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Overpopulation and the Small Farmers of Oakwood
Speaking of overpopulation: I found Oakwood chapel. I was in England in May and I spent a day tracking down this little chapel that played such a fateful role in Western ideas on population and food....
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Dutch Treat
We now know the “best and worst places in the world to eat,” courtesy of Oxfam. The best is the Netherlands; the worst is Chad. (Here is an explanation of their analysis, and here is where you can...
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Theme Park Farming in Japan
[A different version of this post appeared as the inaugural "Notes From The Field" on the website for Culture and Agriculture.] Those of us interested in farming talk about “indigenous knowledge” a...
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The Right to Farm Right
I’ve got an idea: why don’t we Missourians follow up on passing our ALEC-supported ag-gag law with a full-blown amendment to the state constitution to shield industrial agriculture? That way, even if...
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A century later, we find out…
These two items appeared in separate sections of the NY Times yesterday: There was an obituary for Elizabeth Whelan, who started the American Council on Science and Health back in 1978. This was an...
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GM Foods: A Moment of Honesty
Note: the FieldQuestions blog has been dormant for several months due to some academic writing projects and fieldwork. But with a new debate raging on GMO labeling, it’s time to get back to it. As the...
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Golden Rice: Bringing a Superfood Down to Earth
February 2016: Also check out the interview on Golden Rice done with Tom Philpott and Raj Patel on their “Secret Ingredient” podcast series. Few GM crops are discussed as much — and misunderstood as...
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