Mother Nature Doesn’t Quit

Mother Nature Doesn’t Quit

Rather than find ways to cooperate with the natural world, America’s agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is that if brute force isn’t working, they’re probably not using enough of...
Lobby Responsibly

Lobby Responsibly

The big beer brewers often admonish us imbibers of their products to “Drink Responsibly.” Well, I say back to them: Lobby Responsibly. In particular, I point to a disgusting binge of besotted lobbying by Anheuser-Busch and other beer barons this year in...
Let’s Resist Herbicide-Resistant Crops

Let’s Resist Herbicide-Resistant Crops

A Pioneer seed saleswoman introduced the first genetically modified crop to my central Missouri county in the winter of 1996 at a University Extension Soils and Crop Council meeting. She told us that if a farmer planted this genetically engineered soybean, then...
Feeding Obesity

Feeding Obesity

Attention foodies: There’s a new craze in Cuisine World, and it’s going 180 degrees in the opposite direction from the much-publicized healthy-eating movement. It has nothing to do with dressing locally sourced beets and arugula with artisan balsamic...
Vegan Confessions

Vegan Confessions

If you invented a pill that offers long life, good health, and a body to be proud of, you’d make a fortune. Bottles would fly off the shelves. Suggest a change in behavior that achieved the same result, however, and what do you get? Catcalls, derisive comments,...