Ignorant Food Zealots Reject Agriculture
Hollywood’s Golden Globe Awards ceremony made the news for its climate-change awareness with much ado about its meat-free dinner. Keep Reading | 1742 words
Legislators on dwindling state revenues: ‘It’s real, it’s bad’
As coal, oil and natural gas revenues decline, state legislators could have some hard decisions ahead, according to information generated by a strategic planning effort created by Gov. Mark Gordon. Keep Reading | 1203 words
Climate Change? Faulty Sensors, Less Rigorous Standards Could Be Skewing Data
“Very hard political decisions are being made around the world based on what people think is happening,” he said. “People need to tread very lightly and have an understanding of the sausage-making process. Everyone loves a hot dog, but no one wants to know how it’s made.” Keep Reading | 1196 words
Wyoming socialist Democrat says Trump supporters unsure of what is happening Washington
A self-described socialist Democrat seeking one of Wyoming’s U.S. Senate seats said she believes Wyoming residents who supported the campaign of President Donald Trump are now not sure what to think of what is happening in Washington. Keep Reading | 550 words
On Climate Change & Cattle Production
The latest report coming from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is focused on climate change and land, but something must have been garbled in the translation from Geneva because much of the U.S.-media translation emphasized that people should eat less beef and quit wasting so much food. That unfortunate result comes from reporters unwilling to make the time and effort to read the report itself, which – at hundreds of pages and still in draft form – makes for an interesting but not-pleasant task. Keep Reading | 1131 words
Words Matter: Manipulative Messaging
We see manipulative messaging examples every day. In food production it ranges from the use of terms such as factory-farmed animals or organic products, to the clean meat and meatless burgers (which are neither meat nor burger, and by the same token, just as milk comes from an animal with mammary glands, not nuts or beans). Keep Reading | 1277 words