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Apr 8, 2021

Dear Cattle Ranchers — Don’t Take the Impossible Bait

Impossible Foods newly launched campaign “We are Meat” is worthy of only one response. Ignore it. — Is anybody getting bored with Impossible Foods trying to pick a fight with meat producers? I sure am. Here’s their first national ad campaign — “We Are Meat.” Seriously? Oy. Impossible Foods Launches 1st National Ad Campaign 'We Are Meat' aims to build awareness of flagship burgerprogressivegrocer.com

Climate Change

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Dear Cattle Ranchers — Don’t Take the Impossible Bait
Dear Cattle Ranchers — Don’t Take the Impossible Bait
Climate Change

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Future Human

·Mar 17, 2021

Facing Severe Droughts, Ranchers Are Resorting to Using Fracking Water to Save Their Land

Using a patent-pending cleaning process, a Wyoming company hopes to water ranchlands with the notoriously nasty byproduct from oil and gas wells — When people think about fracking, most think about fossil fuels. But Wyoming rancher Owen Goertz, 70, thinks about water. Specifically, the approximately 5,000 to 8,000 barrels a day of fracking byproduct water that is currently produced on his land. For the last 30 years, Goertz has leased out oil and…

Climate Change

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Facing Severe Droughts, Ranchers Are Resorting to Using Fracking Water to Save Their Land
Facing Severe Droughts, Ranchers Are Resorting to Using Fracking Water to Save Their Land
Climate Change

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Debugger

·Mar 2, 2021

Your Pet Doesn’t Need Gadgets

All they need is love — I could have saved a lot of panties. That was my first thought upon reading about the “Companion Collar,” a next-gen satellite-linked smart collar for dogs and cats that didn’t exist when Peanut, my underwear-devouring Rat Terrier, was going through his troubled teenage years. Granted, my dog-chewed drawers might not…

Pets

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Your Pet Doesn’t Need Gadgets
Your Pet Doesn’t Need Gadgets
Pets

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Future Human

·Nov 23, 2020

What Thanksgiving Turkeys Represent About America’s Food-Insecure Future

The modern American turkey is the epitome of “get big or get out” — In the 1960s, my tiny, rural farming community in Washington State raised 100,000 Thanksgiving turkeys a year. This year, we raised less than a few dozen at most. I personally raised nine. The turkey once supported thousands of family farms and rural, agrarian economies across the United States. But as…

Food

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What Thanksgiving Turkeys Represent About America’s Food-Insecure Future
What Thanksgiving Turkeys Represent About America’s Food-Insecure Future
Food

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Future Human

·Oct 27, 2020

‘Super Daddy’ Animals With Elite Sperm Could Breed Their Way to Climate Change Survival

Livestock with gene-edited testicles can help humans survive an increasingly food-insecure world — In a Pullman, Washington, laboratory barn, goat #1962 has one purpose: Go forth and multiply. #1962 is in the world’s first-ever generation of a gene-edited “Super Daddy” or “Surrogate Sire” goat. This means he has the balls (literally) to pass on not his but another, more elite buck’s DNA. Project…

Animals

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‘Super Daddy’ Animals With Elite Sperm Could Breed Their Way to Climate Change Survival
‘Super Daddy’ Animals With Elite Sperm Could Breed Their Way to Climate Change Survival
Animals

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Sep 22, 2020

Can Farmers Reverse Climate Change and Save the World?

Woody Harrelson Says So. — I watched the Kiss the Ground film on a creepy, smoky September morning. The West Coast is on fire again. My Covid mask supply has been doing double-duty, warding off a pandemic and smoke inhalation. 2020 sucks. Enter Kiss the Ground. A film claiming that we can reverse climate change, fix our health, ease global tensions, and save farmers’ livelihoods by managing dirt — aka regenerative agriculture.

Climate Change

10 min read

Can Farmers Reverse Climate Change and Save the World?
Can Farmers Reverse Climate Change and Save the World?
Climate Change

10 min read


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Future Human

·Aug 17, 2020

One Scientist’s Ambitious Plan to Achieve Global Cooling With Cattle

Cows could be a climate change solution — if we take the science seriously — Farts are funny. Burger King thinks yodeling about cow farts is even funnier. …

Environment

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Cow Farts Are Not the Problem
Cow Farts Are Not the Problem
Environment

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OneZero

·Jul 1, 2020

Tiny Weed-Killing Robots Could Make Pesticides Obsolete

This swarm of robots may herald a chemical-free food revolution — Clint Brauer’s farm outside of Cheney, Kansas, could be described as Old MacDonald’s Farm plus robots. …

Robotics

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Tiny Weed-Killing Robots Could Make Pesticides Obsolete
Tiny Weed-Killing Robots Could Make Pesticides Obsolete
Robotics

12 min read


Mar 6, 2020

Coronavirus Panic is Not the Media’s Fault

Stop Blaming the Media for Basic Human Nature — “Media hype” has long been a favored whipping post when the human species loses their ever-loving minds. With the coronavirus panic hitting the U.S. hard it’s sure a lot easier to point fingers than take a hard look at ourselves. It’s the media’s fault, we scream, as California declares a…

Coronaviruses

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Coronavirus Panic is Not the Media’s Fault
Coronavirus Panic is Not the Media’s Fault
Coronaviruses

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Jan 27, 2020

4 Every-Day Idioms Inspired By Farm Life

I’m writing about it until the ‘cows come home’ — What are the silly things that writers — who are also farmers — think about? At least this one? Farm-inspired idioms. And what they really mean. I know, I know. I’m a dork and this is mind-blowing stuff. But what can I say? …

Farming

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4 Every-Day Idioms Inspired By Farm Life
4 Every-Day Idioms Inspired By Farm Life
Farming

5 min read

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