Commentary: Why Monsanto Should Change its Name
“Or your name is mud” is a threat I heard quite often as a child. Usually it was…
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Commentary: The Death of the Grocery Store
The way most Americans buy food has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. From the small independent…
HAT Commentary: Victims of Our Own Success
It is a complaint I hear from farm folks all the time, “People just don’t understand where their…
WSJ Got It Wrong About Rural America
The Wall Street Journal recently ventured outside the concrete streets of New York and took a stroll down…
Leaders in Innovation Say Moo
Pick up any business publication and you will see the word innovation used extensively. Listen to any state…
Consumers Want the Meat, Just Not the Animal
Earl Butz was fond of saying, “If you eat you are involved in agriculture.” If that is the…
Local Food Enforcement
As a journalist, I prefer to report the news, but occasionally that ends up making news. This was…
Can a Leopard Change Its Spots?
A tall, lanky, soft-spoken, Washington-based lawyer with an ivy league education is not the kind of person you…
What a Difference 100 Days Make
For some reason, the first 100 days of a new presidential administration is seen as significant. In theory,…
Ludicrous Labels and Why Consumers Believe them
We have all become accustomed to seeing labels on food that boast of what is not in the…
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