industrial-agriculture

In the brewing culture war over food--which pits big Midwestern farmers and food companies against advocates for small-scale organic farming and food--Salatin is supposed to be on the side of the liberal good guys, eager to see stronger regulation of the industrial-agriculture system that they blame for pollution, animal abuse and just-plain-bad food.

TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

In the brewing culture war over food--which pits big Midwestern farmers and food companies against advocates for small-scale organic farming and food--Salatin is supposed to be on the side of the liberal good guys, eager to see stronger regulation of the industrial-agriculture system that they blame for pollution, animal abuse and just-plain-bad food.

TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

Now, this announcement will strike some as preposterous, but it's really a classical application of industrial-agriculture logic: food is a pure commodity-that stuff which the human body is able to digest; flavor and nutrition can be added in the factory, by isolating natural compounds or synthesizing new ones; what's technically edible is automatically worth eating; if you produce it and, more importantly, market the hell out of it, they will eat it.

Grist - the Latest from Grist 2009

WJ: First, let's recognize that without fossil fuels, the industrial-agriculture strategies we have now could not feed even the current population, and population growth makes these changes more important than ever.

Signs of the Times 2009

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Paula Crossfield: Oklahoma Attorney General Takes on Big Poultry, Highlighting Unsustainability of Industrial Agriculture 2009

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Laura Rogers: What Can Danish Hogs Teach Us About Antibiotics? 2009

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Timothy LaSalle: Thirsting for Truth: No "Safe" Level of Atrazine 2009

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Darya Pino: Are You Eating In The Matrix? 2009

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Kerry Trueman: Young Agrarians: Digging The Future 2009

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Mark Morford: New iPhone app for fans of whipped monoglyceride! 2009