Episodes
President Joe Biden has warned that Russia?s invasion of the Ukraine will cause food shortages. If such is the case, we must pause to ask:
Published 04/14/22
Wherever we go, chickens go, too! The reason chickens go where we go is that they are one of our best sources of good food. In fact, chickens can take almost nothing and turn it into nature?s perfect food, its egg. And that leads us to ask:
Published 04/14/22
Napolean the Pig was said to have said, ?All animals are created equal, but some are created more equal than others.? If such is indeed the case, we ask:
Published 04/02/22
Over the past century most all of us moved into the city, where we came to rely on others to bring us food to eat. But what if the day comes when others stop bringing us food to eat? That thought leads us to ask:
Published 03/31/22
We are all flower children. In fact, it was our relationship with flowering plants, and their seeds, that allowed us to settle down and become civilized. However, those seeds, and our future with flowering plants, are disappearing. And so we ask:
Published 03/31/22
14 percent of the plastic we use is recycled. That means 86 percent of the plastic we use is not recycled. The thought of all that plastic piling up in a giant tsunami leads us to ask:
Published 03/02/22
As demonstrated by Stalin?s holodomor, and Mao?s great Leap Forward, the most effective way to control people is to control their food. And so we ask:
Published 02/23/22
They are just about everywhere, except in places like the Saraha Desert, and there are so many of them. Therefore, they can?t really be special! But according to some, they are, and so we ask?
Published 02/17/22
China is buying up America?s farmland? with the money we send it to manufacture stuff for us in their coal-burning factories. Some say this a good deal because we don?t have to work in those factories. Others say it?s a bad deal because we are selling
Published 02/09/22
California Senate Bill 620 would, if signed into law, make it legal for the state?s residents to buy liquor directly from a local distiller. The thought of legal local liquor leads us to ask:
Published 02/03/22
There is a murder in the trees of Sunnyvale. Yes, a murder of crows has invaded this little Silicon Valley town, and that murder has the town?s people asking:
Published 01/20/22
Farming commodities is a business of boom and bust. During the boom, farmers borrow big to expand production. During the bust, farmers give it all back to the banks. This leads us to ask:
Published 01/10/22
When great clouds of dust woke America to the need to save its soil, much of the awakening took place on an Ohio farm named after the southwest coast of India. Therein lies a story that leads us to ask:
Published 01/04/22
While the Covid-19 pandemic has been driving the world to distraction, a quiet pandemic has been building steam that could prove to be far more threatening to life on earth. And so we ask:
Published 12/16/21
This just in. The Billings Gazette reports that the State of Montana will not have enough money to cover all the claims of livestock killed by predators. And so we ask:
Published 12/08/21
Twenty years ago, Duke the Dog lived out in the backyard. Now he lives in the house and sleeps in a bed. And so we ask:
Published 12/01/21
We have been told that cows cause the climate to change by emitting greenhouse gas. Now we are told to replace the beef we eat with patented, manufactured meat-like substances. And so we ask:
Published 11/17/21
Common sense tells us that if soil is deficient in essential nutrients, the crops grown in that soil will also be deficient, as will the people and animals that eat those crops. And so we ask:
Published 11/10/21
His India Joze restaurant was the West Coast capital of fusion food-ism. The taste that lingers of that fusion leads one to ask Jozseph Schultz:
Published 11/10/21
They call it the ?Golden State,? and $50 billion dollars of that gold is grown by the state?s farmers every year. That so much is at stake in the nation?s golden state leads us to ask:
Published 10/21/21
The dream is to leave the city, go to where the grass is green, farm the land, breathe fresh air and grow food people will pay good money for. This dream leads us to ask:
Published 10/14/21
Over the past eight months, the Drug Enforcement Agency has confiscated 17 pounds of fentanyl in Northern California. If two miligrams is a lethal dose, those 17 pounds are sufficient to kill 37 million people. This leads us to ask:
Published 10/14/21
The more things change, the more they stay the same. If you do not believe this cute little aphorism, you should dig into the ancient commentary of the classics, where you will find thinkers that lead you to ask:
Published 09/29/21
North America?s largest wholesale food distributor, Sysco Foods, recently had to stop delivering food to some of its customers because it did not have enough workers. That this giant of food could not deliver leads us to ask:
Published 09/16/21
In 2015 a Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of the drug ivormocton.* In 2021, big government, big pharma, and big media are doing everything in their power to prohibit ivormoctin.* This leads us to ask:
Published 09/10/21