On 1 May, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that banned the industry of lab-grown meat from the state. Lab-grown meat, also called cultivated or cultured meat, is meat that has been grown from stem cells taken from live animals. The cells grow in a medium and are then harvested and shaped into burgers, …
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Who Was Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley? Ode to a Hero
Every semester my students read a wonderful book called “The Poison Squad” by Deborah Blum, a book about the fight for food safety legislation in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. But to me, as I read the book along with them, “The Poison Squad” is about far more than food …
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Why Fast Food Became Cheesier
If you go to a fast food restaurant and look at the menu, what do you see? Well, there are probably many answer to that question, but for the purposes of this piece, the answer is cheese, and lots of it. You can get cheese on practically everything these days, and it feels like fast …
The Impossible Burger & Other Vegan Foods: Facts and Some Speculation
19 May 2019 – My family has been vegan for many years, and during this time we have endured much criticism and ridicule from relatives and friends. (Hmm, maybe the friends in that sentence deserves to be in quotes.) We were often told that we were damaging our health, and that we were stupid for …
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The Future of Agriculture II: Participation
The Green Revolution was a set of agricultural techniques that were spread around the world in the 1960s that included the use of artificial pesticides, fertilizers, machinery, and high-yield varieties. The result of these technologies was that agricultural yields on the same amount of land increased dramatically, and the increased mechanization slashed the number of …
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The Future of Agriculture I: Agroforestry
Agriculture is an important topic that is too often ignored in discussions of sustainability. However, it does take up a significant fraction of the earth’s surface, uses a huge sum of resources each year, and produces the stuff that keeps us alive, so our system of food production should receive more consideration by policymakers. This …
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