10 Dec
We’ve heard of Food Inc., (which I have a review of coming soon) well how about Food Gov? It turns out that the USDA has less stringent testing standards for the food sent to school lunch programs than do the private testing regimens of most fast food chains.
In the past three years, the government [...]
26 Aug
Excuse my tired fingers, I’m taking a shift break from my annual evening of hand grape crush/watching Firefly DVD’s.
The latest issue of Wired has a great piece on the success of craigslist, and it’s supposed deficiencies, despite being the leading job search site, and the leading real estate site, among others. The author can’t [...]
10 Aug
The other day a friend and I had a quick email discussion of the Blake Hurst piece that I pointed out in my last posting. His position was in line with Hurst’s, that organic food is crap, and that modern conventional farming practices are the optimal use of agricultural resources. That has [...]
31 Jul
There’s a fantastic piece over at The American from a Missouri corn farmer regarding foodie types like Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, etc. Mr. Hurst makes some good points, and of course uses the tired ‘feed the world’ argument. My job is not to feed the world, it is to turn rain and [...]
30 Jul
Out of the blue, but the topic of organic vs conventional food came up at one of my online hangouts, and I put so much typing into a post that I figured it would be a waste not to add some easy content over here. It all ties in with my recent revelations that [...]
16 Jul
Noticed two stories today, different subjects, but they might as well have been the same.
The first, a WSJ piece on municipal fights over chickens.
Secondly, a story from North Carolina about a proposed law banning the banning of clotheslines.
I’ll be honest, I just can’t comprehend the mindset that would set rules for a neighbor. [...]
5 May
Some predictable hand wringing by Mother Jones about the Obama administration’s decision to possibly allow hunting of reintroduced wolves in Western states. Personally I believe that you don’t get to make the decision regarding such threats to life and property unless you yourself are willing to live with the consequences day in and day [...]
20 Apr
There’ a NYT story making the rounds today on the Transition movement, which is survivalists and hippies trying to take their communities a few steps back, an trying to wean themselves off of energy and modern society. All well and good, and no harm done, but for their sake I hope there’ a Supercenter [...]
14 Apr
Mother Jones has set up a Q&A forum with some “food reform experts” so I thought I’d break the mold of statist solutions and ask them how they see the eventual unintended consequences of their well meaning legislation.
How many of you acknowledge the eventual bad consequences of well meaning legislation? Current laws already make [...]
10 Apr
Won’t somebody stop the madness, we can’t have all this uninspected food going around! A story, (taken from the HitNRun) regarding the menace that is charity food stuffs. From WSJ, the story of the crackdown on unregulated baked goods, and how our benevolent government has saved us from yet another food borne scourge. I feel [...]
