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The MAHA movement has brought food quality, human health, and regenerative farming to the attention of conservatives. Yet articles from across the political spectrum still slander organic, small-scale farming operations as deleterious to the environment and claim that GMO-cropping and factory farms are salutary for American consumers and the world. This isn’t true. Granted, I’m … Read more
Efforts to secure statutory immunity from liability for personal injuries caused by pesticides have converged with massive increases in federal subsidies for chemical-dependent GMO monoculture crops, proposed in the House Reconciliation Bill (AKA the “Big, Beautiful Bill”), to fuel a bitter conservative battle over the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. Both initiatives pit industrial … Read more
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is expected to sign a bill banning cell-cultured proteins in the Lone Star State. Montana, Indiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Nebraska have enacted similar bans, reflecting an increasing pushback to what many see as a globalist effort to control food supplies, undermining traditional American farming. Advocates claim fake meat substitutes, … Read more
Conflicting reactions suggest it hit the sweet spot. The 69-page MAHA Commission Report offers a fresh analysis of America’s escalating health crisis. It delivers on the “Make America Healthy Again” campaign pledge that drew independents and Democratic Party walkaways to join team MAGA’s Trump-Kennedy alliance in the 2024 election. Both corporate America and organic food … Read more
Recent articles have converged to paint a horrifying picture of Americans’ increasingly ultra-processed diets and likely brain damage from the microplastics that saturate many foods, especially “fast food” from take-out restaurants. The US leads the world in junk food consumption, and microplastics may account for rising rates of obesity, depression, anxiety, and dementia. These findings … Read more
The first report from the Make America Healthy Again Commission is out, with a particular focus on children’s health. The relatively short report includes astonishing data on obesity, heart disease, diabetes, life expectancy, substance abuse, mental illness, and many other terribles. The report is a shock, a painful read, a five-alarm fire, and the charts … Read more
Seeking signatures for an important MAHA letter A battle for our health currently centers on the use of pesticides and other chemicals in American farming. As I recently explained in the Baltimore Sun, chemical companies that have been losing lawsuits to US juries for causing cancer from glyphosate have been pushing for state lawmakers to protect … Read more
My family of numerous lineages have been farmers here in Vermont. My father’s mother grew up and worked hard on a dairy farm in Sheldon Falls. My mother grew up on the farm near where I now live — the Stoddard farm, which is one of the founding family farms here in Brookfield. My Mom’s … Read more
More propaganda for the rainbow of fake grievances. Despite widespread rejection of the incessant, divisive toxicity of an ever-growing rainbow of perceived grievances, social justice con artists scour the dogmatic universe for more faux causes to fuel their platforms. A recent example is the laughable-if-offensive effort to transform the phrase “food deserts” into “food apartheid.” … Read more
Mark Twain’s famous satire “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” chronicles the fictitious time travel of an engineer named Hank Morgan from East Hartford, Connecticut. After being struck in the head with a crowbar, he awakens in sixth-century England and works his way into King Arthur’s favor by use of his modern knowledge. I … Read more
The possible outbreak could harm US cattle herds. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins dispatched a sharp letter to Mexican authorities on April 26, threatening to halt some imports of cows, horses, and bison as early as April 30 unless Mexico cooperated in stopping a potential infestation of New World screwworm (NWS). Critics who object … Read more
Surging live cattle prices reflect the fundamental economic adage that reduced supplies drive up prices as long as demand remains firm. Americans are not giving up their passion for hamburgers and T-bones anytime soon, and the nation’s beef herd has shrunk to its lowest level in decades. This is good news for farmers, but they, … Read more
Drone technology used to see what God/Nature already knew Hailed as “the beginning of a new era” and “a revolutionary way to improve agriculture,” scientists have employed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to monitor potato harvests and discover which soil microbes best feed crops. The circular irony here is that technological advances affirm that Creation is the … Read more
George Orwell’s novel 1984 provides us with the political wisdom: “those who control the present control the past and our future.” Thinking back to the nineties, I ask, “Should treason have been the reason for the Clinton Impeachment?” Monica Lewinsky was the scapegoat in the Senate-conducted kangaroo trial, while the Senate ignored President Clinton’s alleged … Read more
Hailed as “the beginning of a new era” and “a revolutionary way to improve agriculture,” artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to monitor potato harvests and discover which soil microbes best feed crops. This novel AI tool also can expose past (and current) technological follies and hazards in agriculture. Drone-Farmed Potatoes Potato researchers collected data … Read more
Part of a complete audit of how the Federal Government spends the fruits of your labors includes programs at the USDA that the Handmaiden media are breathlessly reporting as canceled. Everyone from Politico to CNN to NHPR (now GraniteGrok) is printing stories about local food banks and pantries tightening their belts. Okay, so The ‘Grok … Read more
Americans love their hamburgers as much as buffalo wings and fried eggs, and all three are increasing in price. Mainstream media headlines suggest President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs could increase food inflation, and critics started blaming him for high egg prices within hours after his swearing in. It appears many would be apoplectic if Trump … Read more
HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has asked the Food and Drug Administration to rethink a past practice that allowed food companies to tell the FDA if they thought some chemical was safe for humans. Under this regime, everything is assumed safe until evidence of harm exists. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy … Read more
The federal deficit now exceeds $36 trillion, aggravated by the Inflation Reduction Act (which Joe Biden has boasted was really about boosting renewable energy production, not reducing inflation) and his Build Back Better spending spree. President Donald Trump is trying to undo some of the economic damage wrought by the previous administration, but high deficits … Read more
In 2016, our Irasburg farm was visited by a Vermont Agency of Agriculture agent who informed me it was illegal for me to sell halves of beef. I decided to fight what was obviously an unconstitutional attempt to restrict small farms from centuries of practice, in ways that would hurt our businesses (especially on-farm slaughterers and custom … Read more