Meeting with a fellow yesterday who runs in alternative medical circles gave me lots of stuff. Is it true? You decide.

wo pharmaceutical company chairmen, normally engaged in bitter marketing competition, joined forces to write an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal predicting that by 2050 antibiotic-resistant superbugs would kill 30 million worldwide.

I know I'm supposed to be teasing you about the new book POLYFACE DESIGNS every Friday, but I just can't help today weighing in on the name change at the Washington Redskins. They are our closest NFL team so our area is full of Redskins fans.

I've resisted any comments about the violence in our cities, but yesterday tipped me over the edge. I will relate it the way it was related to me, by the mother of a 23-year old fire fighter near Richmond.

Sometimes a conversation meanders around and then suddenly and spontaneously winds up in a profound place. Such was a guest podcast I did a couple of days ago with Certified Health Nut Troy. I do several guest podcasts a week and can't begin to keep them all straight, but apparently he also has a superfood line where everything is grown in volcanic ash beds.

I challenged the Orlando gathering last week of the Libertarian Party with their Achilles heel: property rights versus the commons. Numerous members admitted that the LP has a horrible assumption of environmental degradation.

Last week I spoke at the Libertarian Party National Convention in Orlando so I have a flight update to share. Tomorrow I'll share what I talked about at the convention. And for the record, I am not a member of the Libertarian Party--I'm not a member of any political party; they all get squirrely around the edges.

Have you ever wondered what the dimensions are of a home-made cattle chute? A head gate? So much is manufactured today that the idea of making these things from scratch is hardly on anyone's agenda. But if you have a template, you can bootstrap a lot of things that otherwise would cost thousands of dollars.

University of Virginia researcher Eyleen O'Rourke features prominently in a recent Charlottesville Daily Progress article about how diet and gut microbes influence pharmaceutical activity. For those of us versed in nature's awesome complexity this is a ho-hum piece that shouldn't even make the news. But for the medical research community, this is jaw-dropping stuff.

I can't help it, folks. I have to step into the coronavirus situation; it's been too long and I've been accumulating stuff from real people, not news organizations. Many front line health workers come to the farm and I always engage them to find out their perspective. Folks, it's universally opposite the daily news feed. I haven't met a single one that trusts the numbers.

It's Friday and time for another teaser on my book with former apprentice Chris Slattery titled POLYFACE DESIGNS.

Two senators have gotten some big media play proposing a bi-partisan cure for alleged cattle price manipulation by the big packers. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jon Testor (D-Montana) have teamed up to write a mandate that the big four beef processors must purchase half their supply from what is known as the spot market.