Podcast: Play in new window | Download As I have written here a time or two [Meat Industry: Have MRSA on Us; USDA Gets Bad News on Superbugs: Shoots Messenger; and most recently, Microbes Winning War on Terra] the meat industry has for years, as a matter of course, been selling tainted meat. In the [...]
Agriculture
Dry and Drier Meets Dumb and Dumber
April 5, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The consensus of climatologists (be warned, these are scientists, not real Americans) is that the drought now affecting almost all of the US west of the Mississippi River — more than half of the 48 contiguous states — will be at least as bad this year as it [...]
Plainview, Texas: Dead Town Waking
March 4, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download An all-time favorite movie line (The Missouri Breaks), uttered by Jack Nicholson leaning over Marlon Brando, who is starting up from sleep: “Do you know why you woke up? I just cut your throat.” That is the way Plainview, Texas, woke up the other day to some bitter truths, [...]
Farmers Renounce Industrial Methods, Get World-Record Yields
February 25, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The grotesquely misnamed “Green Revolution” that since the 1960s has been replacing traditional farming around the world with genetically modified, mechanized, chemical-intensive, debt-ridden industrial agriculture has worked so well in India that a quarter of a million farmers there have committed suicide in 16 years. The Center for [...]
USDA Report Foresees Collapse of Agriculture
February 8, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download A new US Department of Agriculture report looking only at the threat of climate change implies that industrial agriculture will be on its knees in 25 years. “We’re going to end up in a situation where we have a multitude of things happening that are going to negatively [...]
Industrial Agriculture Losing Ground Faster
February 4, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download A new study out of Iowa State University confirms that industrial agriculture (please don’t call it farming) continues to squander the precious topsoil on which its existence — and ours — depends. This is a problem that has nothing to do with global climate change, or peak oil, [...]
Microbes Winning War on Terra
January 25, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download While maximizing its profits, industrial agriculture has unleashed many deadly, slow-gathering threats on humanity. The downsides of mechanistic, chemically intensive (and now, genetically mutilated) food manufacture (please don’t call it “farming”) — air pollution, water pollution, loss of topsoil, food contamination — have become relatively well known, if [...]
Corn Growers Suffer Quintuple Whammy
August 20, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The failure of industrial agriculture is on display everywhere in America’s “breadbasket” — now we should probably call it the ethanol basket, or the high-fructose-corn-syrup basket — and the consequences are already spreading around the world. You thought it was just a drought? It would be bad enough [...]
Top Hedge Fund Guy Sees Worsening Global Food Crisis
August 17, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The skipper of one of the larger hedge funds on the planet — $100 billion under management — has just laid out, again, in wonkish detail and with financial sophistication, the evidence that the industrialized world has fallen to its knees and is about to topple onto its [...]
From American Drought to “Global Catastrophe”
July 26, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Some poet invented the name “Arab Spring” as a label for the tsunami of public desperation that last year took down the governments of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Poets and Pollyannas saw the events as an upwelling of love for democracy. Realists related them to the spike in [...]
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