As we have discussed here numerous times, 'organic' mostly means what you want it to mean. The list of synthetic ingredients that the organic lobby has gotten the FDA to add is truly dizzying, with exceptions as simple as 'there is no non-synthetic alternative'.
read moreJohn Rosemond has a master's degree in psychology and is a licensed psychologist. He is also a syndicated advice columnist who has been doing it since 1976, one of the longest-running syndicated columns in the U.S.But the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology wants him gone. He does not pay them a fee yet calls himself a psychologist due to having a degree in psychology and being a licensed...
read moreHow do you know subsidies are a dopey public policy? When it pays to smuggle rice into Thailand, even though Thailand already has enough rice to meet half the world's annual trade in the food staple.The reason is that the Thai government is subsidizing production so heavily as part of a campaign platform that it is paying its farmers almost double the prevailing prices in Cambodia and...
read moreProponents of illegal immigration contend that they are doing jobs no one wants to do. Farmers worry about the cost of labor.Both immigration and wage problems are solved by just using robots. The Lettuce Bot, for example, can "thin" a field of lettuce in the time it takes about 20 workers to do the job by hand. A new generation of machines targets the last frontier of...
read moreIf environmental doomsday prophets had been around 10,000 years ago you would not exist.Way back then, as a large tribe of people had begun to run out of food to hunt and berries to forage, some smart scientific person came up with the greatest idea anyone ever had - why don't we grow our own animals and vegetables?A doomsday prophet in charge would have been talking about who they could kill...
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