Dan Murphy
Commentary: In praise of animal foods
The number of nutritionists touting the benefits of meat-eating pales in comparison to the legions decrying its consumption. That’s why a recent interviewee deserves cheers, not chastisement.
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Commentary: GMOs: How do I hate thee?
Let me count the ways: The Top Ten ways, actually, as GMO haters compile a hit list of reasons why they believe we need to take biotech by the neck and choke it until it’s dead.
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Commentary: Slanting the statistics
Calling cattle the No. 1 problem with global warming is a favorite tactic of NGOs with an openly anti-production ag agenda. But the numbers on CO2 emissions need to be put in perspective.
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Commentary: Demented diets
Red meat consumption has been accused of being the course of all evil, nutritionally speaking. Now, veggie advocates are upping the ante with warnings about meat causing dementia.
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Commentary: Wisdom from The Fool
It’s seldom that one reads any responsive criticism in mainstream media of self-styled consumer groups when they attack meat producers and processors. That all changed earlier this week.
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Interview Part II: The obesity cure
In Part II of a Vance Online Networks exclusive interview, British nutritional expert and obesity researcher Zoe Harcombe offers a stunningly simple solution to our No. 1 public health problem.
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Interview: British expert on causes of obesity
Researcher, writer and nutritional advocate Zoe Harcombe offers a provocative, powerful take on what has caused a third (or more) of Europe and America’s population to become obese.
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Commentary: The China syndrome
Another outbreak affecting the safety of animal foods in China exposes the underlying problem the world’s most populous country faces: Too little of what we complain about having too much.
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Commentary: Get fired up!
As fire season on millions of acres of public lands gets underway, Congress is cooling its heels on a bill that would significantly and positively impact the problem. But they need to act—now.
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Commentary: Voice of reason
A prominent pro-veggie physician and health authority offers—for once—a reasonable and reasoned take on the latest controversy over meat’s (alleged) negative effects on health.
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Commentary: The new range wars
A century ago, it was cattlemen versus sheep herders, barbed wire versus open range. Today, public rangelands are caught in a battle over whether any livestock belong there at all.
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- Wet U.S. Midwest sections may lead to fewer corn acres
- U.S. revises meat-labeling rules to satisfy WTO ruling
- Where’s the rain? Parched states can’t shake the drought
- Grass tetany possible this spring
- Weekly U.S. beef sales roar back on purchases by Japan
- U.S. House votes to force approval of Keystone pipeline
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
