As any avid consumer of the Star Tribune‘s comics page knows, a certain pesky, but lovable, woodland creature called “Lucky the Beaver” is driving Mark Trail to distraction these days…. Read more »
Posts Categorized: Food and Sustainable Agriculture
Hormone Replacement Therapy
“Hormones Are For Teenagers” states a rustic-looking billboard for Minnesota-based Gold’n Plump. Clever, huh? It’s a humorous way of getting across the message that no added hormones are used to… Read more »
I Eat & I Vote
On Dec. 12, more than 100 Twin Citians gathered in the basement of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in South Minneapolis to discuss federal farm policy reform at a meeting… Read more »
A Steady Diet of De-Skilled Food
Now that Eric Schlosser’s classic mealtime muckraking book, Fast Food Nation, has been Hollywoodized, Americans are again talking about where those McNuggets and fries come from and how they arrive… Read more »
Greenhouse Gases & Gully-Washers
It’s been a dry fall in Minnesota, and that means farmers have had plenty of opportunities to till up the soil after harvest. While driving around in farm country the… Read more »
Factory Farming’s Secret Subsidy
Promoters of large-scale factory livestock farming like to argue that their model of agriculture is a natural progression—an example of free market efficiency succeeding. What they don’t want the public… Read more »
Counting Calories in Agriculture
A common argument in favor of large-scale industrialized agriculture is that it is just plain more efficient, and thus deserves to succeed. But measured by the amount of energy it… Read more »
Selling Conservation in Farm Country
It’s November, and that means Minnesota’s various hunting seasons are in full cry. As hunters take to the fields, forests and sloughs, they can’t help but notice how much we… Read more »
How CSP can Reward Conservation Farming
The Conservation Security Program is one of the most innovative agricultural conservation programs to ever emerge out of our nation’s capital. Called CSP for short, this initiative rewards farmers for… Read more »
Ditching Dead Zone Apathy
Today’s news that the number of oxygen-starved “dead zones” in the world’s seas and oceans has risen by a third in the past two years is almost too much to… Read more »