Agriculture

+91 days ago

Hate High Energy Prices? Eat More Cheese.

By Massimo Calabresi
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An accounting firm called Baker Tilly (“Candor. Insight. Results.”) sent me an e-mail last Thursday with the following subject line: Waste to Energy at International Cheese Technology Expo It took me a little while to get my head around the full power of this beautifully terse and irresistibly earnest pitch. We were dealing here not [...]

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+352 days ago

A Dispatch from ‘Tomatoland’

By David Von Drehle

On the day after Thanksgiving, 1960, legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow took millions of Americans into the tomato fields of Florida via the landmark CBS documentary “Harvest of Shame.” He began by quoting a farmer who said, “We used to own our slaves. Now we just rent them.” And he ended with the idea that [...]