Dan Murphy
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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Commentary: Shamburgers and lip synching
Is ‘faking’ your way through the national anthem really the moral equivalent of adding some horsemeat to your beef patties? An editorial columnist argues they’re both equally deceptive.
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Commentary: Medicine vs. food
Why is it that the same biotech research that makes perfect sense when it’s applied to disease treatment gets roundly condemned when we’re talking about plants? Here’s the answer.
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Commentary: The biggest delusion of all
Talk to any vegetarian activist and you’ll get an earful about the (alleged) damage meat production and meat-eating is doing to people and the planet. But who’s kidding who?
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Commentary: Make mine meat, eh?
A Canadian nutrition researcher questions new Health Canada guidelines that include meat as the initial solid food for infants being weaned at around six months of age. Is he right?
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Commentary: Veggie ethics gone wrong
The law of unintended consequences rears its ugly head, as starving people in Latin America have vegetarian proselytes to thank for hunger, poverty and ecological destruction.
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Commentary: Grasping the obvious
The tabloid tales involving two superstar athletes ought to remind us of a salient fact: We not only can’t mimic their physical talents, we don’t think like them—and we shouldn’t act like them.
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Commentary: Water, water everynowhere
We’re all familiar with ‘peak oil’ as shorthand for the controversies surrounding fossil fuel extraction and consumption. Now, get ready for another crisis years in the making: Peak water.
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Commentary: Game (meat) on
In the never-ending fight over the environmental impact of meat and poultry production, it’s easy to overlook the fact that controversy still swirls around the other red meat: wildlife.
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Commentary: PETA’s Alabama bust
No, not the football game, but a PETA protest that tried to turn away patrons of a locally famous barbecue restaurant from their intended destination—right around lunchtime. Good luck, ya’ll.
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Commentary: Chinese conundrum
For all its cultural and scientific achievements over the millennia, China has a glaring problem that even its best efforts at ‘modernization’ can’t seem to solve: eating wildlife into extinction.
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- Cattle Outlook: Cattle on feed down nine consecutive months
- Supplementation on summer pasture
- Beef is the centerpiece of many wacky minor league stadium menus
- Commentary: Message to Occupy Monsanto: Occupy yourself
- Canada cattle report: Canadian steer, heifer prices steady
- A conversation with Dr. Jim Marsden about the safety of beef
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- TSCRA works with sale barns to catch Houston cattle thief
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
