What’s Your Personal Food Policy?

...I’m a guest at another person’s house. I’m not sure I can still do this. As Michael Pollan says, “Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.” And those walls have become transparent to me. I’ll happily eat meat, but only if I know it was humanely raised or hunted. So, dear Root Simple readers, what’s your personal food policy?...

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It’s Official: The End is Near

...cord levels. Because feed represents farms’ biggest single cost in raising animals, farmers are serving them a lot of people food, since it can be cheaper. Connecting the stories and ads in the WSJ is our favorite game to play in the morning over our coffee. We’re not alone in playing this game. Richard Jackson, Director of the CDC National Center for Environmental Health connected the dots with stories in the WSJ during a brilliant lecture we hea...

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“Interstellar”: Leaving the farm for the stars

...ng monocrops going. We seem to be living on an all-corn diet. There are no animals to be seen, anywhere. Not even a cat. I’m assuming we ate them. There seems to be plenty of gas left, perhaps because there are so few people. At any rate, things aren’t good–there are constant dust storms and disease threatening the crops. It seems that humanity isn’t out of hot water quite yet. And our hero, Cooper, who is a ex-NASA pilot forced to play farmer, di...

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The Flow Hive: a Solution in Search of a Problem

...s going the bees in the hive get very defensive and stinging of people and animals nearby can result. Other photos on the site show the harvest tubes connected to lidded jars, which would be a lot safer. But I don’t think lidded harvest systems are included in the price of the set up. Speaking of the price: It’s $460 for just the contraption or $600 for a brood box and the Flow™ Hive. I can buy two unassembled Lanstroth boxes with frames for aroun...

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Saturday Tweets: Hello 2019

....twitter.com/SfWJ4E4m7q — Laura Goodfellow 🚌🏃🏼‍♀️ (@transitrunner) January 2, 2019 #UCDavis‘ @JamieLPeyton continues success with innovation burn care for animals. https://t.co/0vGIzPC3V3 — UC Davis Vet Med (@ucdavisvetmed) January 2, 2019...

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