I had the distinct pleasure of spending the day Friday with America's foremost horse logging forestry expert, Jason Rutledge.  He's going to be conducting live cutting and selection workshops with his horses at the Mother Earth News fair here at Polyface July 17-18.  Do you have your tickets yet?  Hint hint.

Yesterday I introduced you to a new book coming out this summer by Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolff titled SACRED COW.  I read the manuscript over the weekend and it's excellent for those of us who want to save the health of ourselves and the planet with responsibly raised livestock and eating meat.

Over the weekend I finished reading a manuscript by Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolff titled SACRED COW.  It'll be both a book and a documentary; the documentary is supposed to be debuted at the Mother Earth Fair here July 17-18, hopefully at a local theater on Saturday night, July 18.

Back in 2017 some politically connected folks urged me to leverage President Trump's against-the-grain persona by sending him a white paper for food freedom.  I wrote it but never sent it; I know enough about politics to know that you need some sort of inside track for anything like to gain traction.  I thought I was going to get an audience with Sonny Perdue in 2019, but that fell through.   

 A reader posed a question to me yesterday:  "If you only had the option of factory farmed meat, would you still eat it?"  Although I don't read all the chatter generated by my blog, I love to get feedback and Wendy, who handles all of this for me, screens and sends me salient comments and questions.  So keep them coming.

Yesterday I challenged the greenhouse gas orthodoxy regarding global warming, noting that GHG only has a 4 percent bearing on temperature while water is 96 percent.  Don't worry, I'm not on a multi-day global warming kick, but today I want to address the flip side of desertification.

Have you seen the latest numbers out from the U.S. Geological Survey that the Colorado River is down 20 percent since 2000 and expected to be down 25 percent by 2050 due to snow melt on the Rockies and global warming?

Teresa and I just returned from visiting friends and family in Florida, the first time we ever went away for a couple of days without any business agenda.  We've done lots of fun stuff, but always piggybacked on a speaking engagement or business need; this is the first time in our marriage (40 years) that we just took off with no agenda, no business element, just for fun.  We can't even say the word "vacation.”

I appreciate the many comments regarding my post regarding the lead actor Joaquin Phoenix acceptance speech at the Oscars.  Some of you ripped me for rewording into it more than he said--equating humans with scallops--and pointing out that he never said the word "vegan."    I appreciate all the comments and have watched the entire speech.

One area of policy I admit to being unsure about is free markets, free trade, tariffs, and protectionism. I don't have an answer. But I do want to share something that's interesting.

By now you've certainly seen the video clips of Michael Bloomberg's 2016 Oxford University presentation about the kind of mental capacity needed in different economies:  agricultural, industrial, informational.

 You may be aware of efforts in numerous cities to ban gun stores through the use of zoning ordinances.  By and large, courts have struck down these regulations as being unconstitutional.