Environment

Your Vegetable Garden Won't Save You In A Pandemic- Farming Will

With the world COVID-19 pandemic in its sixth month, food activists are back to trumpeting locally grown, and even home grown, as a viable option for mass food production, but for most of the world how realistic is that? It's fine if Michael Pollan cl ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 4 2020 - 2:02pm

With No Bee Deaths Happening, Activists Now Say Birds Are Dying From Neonicotinoids

Though periodic deaths of bees continue to happen, and have been documented for as long as records of bees have been kept, over 1,000 years, efforts to blame the most recent statistical blip on a newer class of pesticides designed to reduce pesticide usage ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 17 2020 - 3:48pm

Consumers Don't Realize It But The Pandemic Has Clobbered Farmers

Tennessee corn, soybean, cotton and wheat producers are estimated to have declines in income of $58.8 million, $21.4 million, $20.3 million and $1.2 million, respectively, for a total decline of $101.7 million- and that's just what is known right now. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2020 - 5:31am

Our Food Supply Was Built On Engineering Plants: The War On Science Risks That Food Security

The majority of today's plant-based food was created using scientific optimization of traits- genetic engineering. Watermelons, bananas, tomatoes, lettuce, and corn are all great examples of genetically engineered foods that few realize are not natura ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2020 - 8:50am

Eat The Meat: Vegetable Waste Has Less Environmental Impact

If you care about the environment, you should eat the steak and throw out the salad, according to University of Missouri researchers who say that the type of food wasted has a significant impact on the environment.  Approximately 31 percent of food produc ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2020 - 11:11am

Some U.S Cities Could Subsist On Locally Grown Food- If The Local Area Is Large Enough

A new estimate says that of 378 metropolitan areas, many could actually exist on locally grown food- if the local area is up to 200 miles away, which means New York City could claim farms in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 17 2020 - 9:02am

Trichoderma And Corn Rot: Organic Pesticides Damage Crops

A small percentage of farmers engage in an alternative form of agriculture termed "organic" because they believe it is a more natural manufacturing process, since it was used in the past. The scientific flaws in that logic are well known, but the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2020 - 11:49am

Eating Less Meat Won't Help Protect The Environment, Eating Less Will

A new paper seeks to take some of the guesswork out of subjective "sustainable" diets. Activists like True Health Initiative try to claim that a meatless diet is better for human health and the environment, for example, but their corporate spons ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 8 2020 - 8:20am

Organic Farming Is Not Compatible With Conservation

A recent paper finds that if just 15 percent of farmland reverted to nature, it would wipe out nearly a third of the carbon we've generated since the onset of the Industrial Revolution. The good news; we can do that easily. The bad news; it involves ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 21 2020 - 10:37pm

More Plant Diversity Means Less Pesticides- But Lower Yields

Everyone recognizes that less less food means fewer pests but when you have to grow food to keep billions from starving, yields matter. Farming has gotten more efficient, thanks to big data tools leading to targeted pesticide use and modern pesticides that ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2020 - 5:31am