Before sharing a poem that came to me last night, let me just say that my ink pen blog got a huge response.  I had no idea so many people had favorite pens and, like me, are pen snobs.  Welcome to the club.  And guess what; people sent me pens.  Lots of pens…

As consumer awareness about artificial food additives, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), and nutrient deficiency create demand for better food, the industrial chemical complex is fighting back.  And of course, it's using science as a basis…

You know how once you see something, you can't NOT see it?  Like the arrow in the FedEx logo.  Look at the bottom of the E and the left of the x and you see an arrow--once you see it , you can't unsee it…

Well, folks, you're seeing what happens when I'm home for a week, and it's raining, and I'm caught up (at least for now) on major writing projects.  Lots of blogs.  My apologies.  ha!  But thank you for reading…

Wow, that Monday post about farmers boycotting the sale barn with their calves and therefore indicating a boycott of the midterms sure got some response…

During a podcast last week, I had a bit of a revelation.  Nothing stimulates us to think things through better than a good question-answer period.  I can always tell when I'm guesting on a truly ground-breaking podcast because the interview teases out of me things I'd never thought of before.  Or at least, new ways to articulate old concepts…

This is the time of year when cow-calf producers wean their calves and take them to the sale barn to be sold to folks who will buy those stockers and carry them until they're sold to feedlots for finishing…

Goodness knows in the good farming sector of agriculture--as opposed to bad farming--we need friends.  This post is not to crucify; it is to point out blind eyes on our own side and unnecessary sensationalism…

The federal government captured America's food system two years after Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906.  The book revealed corruption and filth in the meatpacking industry, concentrated in Chicago.  Consumers fled the "big seven" meatpackers, who controlled 50 percent of the market at that time…

I have a flip phone, no smart phone.  I've never texted, never apped, never taken a picture or selfie, never GPSed a location and all of this partly to create private space.  I don't want the world to have access to me every moment of the day.  I don't think it's healthy.  In old school thinking, I view the phone as something…

I'm a pen snob.  I like a certain feel in my hand, a certain way the ink flows out, the way the pen moves across the paper, and ultimately the kind of marks it leaves.  I like smooth, bold lines and a fat instrument, not a skinny pen that's hard to hold…

Fox Digital broke a story this week about the food police threatening Kathy Kite in Harrisburg, Missouri over her home breakfast benevolence.  After losing her job at a filling station as part of covid lockdown fallout--a place that served breakfast--she decided to offer breakfast free to folks…