On this day devoted to love, perhaps focusing on the statement made by Joaquin Phoenix at the Oscars is in order.  If you missed it, he won Lead Actor at the Oscars and in an emotional and undoubtedly heartfelt plea, asked us all to become vegans and said the life of a scallop is worth same as the life of a human.

For the last week I've been hunkered down at the desk going over the final layout of a new book BEY0ND LABELS: A Doctor and a Farmer Conquer Food Confusion One Bite at a Time.

The dairy industry is imploding. Cow milk sales are down nearly 40 percent nationwide in just the last three decades. Can you imagine? Replaced with rice milk, soy milk and others, traditional cow milk's position at the table is now no longer.

A study released in Nature and reported in The Economist, conducted at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg shows much farther-ranging affects in the human micro-biome than originally thought.

 I just finished a wonderful book, Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose, subtitled "Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West."  It's a long read and daunting to look at, but when I started, I couldn't put it down and have stayed up late finishing it. 

A new study highlighted in the Wall Street Journal says loneliness is up:  61 percent of Americans say they're lonely…

This will be my last post concerning the Rogue Food Conference in Cincinnati over the weekend.  The lunch speaker was Congressman Thomas Massie from Kentucky and he described himself as a rogue congressman.  Though he's very conservative, he won't join the Freedom Caucus, which irritates his fellow conservatives but it maintains his autonomy.