Dan Murphy
Commentary: Brother billionaires
The two richest men on Earth join forces to address the challenge of feeding another three (or four) billion people by 2050—and it’s going to take more than even their mountains of money.
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Commentary: Sorry, seafood
Despite a wealth of upbeat dietary advice urging people to give up beef and eat more fish, a bigger picture of how that switch would affect the world’s ecosystems isn’t nearly as positive.
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Commentary: No horsemeat heroes here
The authority figures in Great Britain’s growing scandal over horse meat illegally added to ground beef and other processed products aren’t exactly covering themselves in glory.
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Commentary: Berry, berry interesting
In the kind of simplistic story news media love to devour, a Harvard School of Public Health report claims that eating blueberries and strawberries will make a new woman out of you.
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Commentary: In defense of the defendant
A Supreme Court case next week asks if Monsanto’s Round-up Ready patents are enforceable (probable answer: yes). But let’s hear it for the farmer whose creativity caused the lawsuit.
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Commentary: The other side of the equation
Is any issue more compelling or more strategically important than energy security? [Answer: No]. But are we debating only one side of the supply-and-demand dynamic?
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Commentary: Meat plant to ‘meat market’
The story of an once-thriving packing plant is a tale of business gone bad, life as an abandoned warehouse and finally a resurrection as a high-end health club where men and women ‘mingle.’
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Commentary: Bashing biotech
Although the anti-GMO rhetoric has somewhat subsided, the real issue with genetic engineering isn’t its safety, it’s how the science is being applied—and prioritized.
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Commentary: Cancer in the commentariat
On a day devoted to sobering reflections on how we deal with the “Big C”—cancer—a vegetarian activist twists proven prevention strategies into an anti-industry, anti-red meat rant.
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Commentary: The math don’t work
While news stories focus on the billions being handed over to an anti-industry university, the real story of Mayor Bloomberg’s philanthropy is how all that dough’s going to get spent.
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Commentary: Not so sustainable?
Local, sustainable, family-farmed—the adjectives—and consumers’ appetite—are endless. But ‘alternative animal ag’ faces problems that, despite its popularity, may prove its downfall.
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- Ag markets posted a general advance mid-day Wednesday
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- TSCRA works with sale barns to catch Houston cattle thief
- Mexico says U.S. not respecting WTO ruling on meat labeling
- Vance Publishing's 40 under 40
- Schwieterman: Cattle futures rally sharply higher after reversal
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
- Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
- Drought losses in Oklahoma top $400 million for 2012
- Survey reveals most Americans in favor of COOL
