The Healthy Benefits of a Stressed Out Plant
The biological principle of xenohormesis suggests that organic farming advocates might very well be pampering their plants into nutritional laziness.
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The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The Aspiring Congressman Who Wants to Bring Healthy Food to Everyone
For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.
Good News: Globalization Crushing Family Farms
Nationalists would rather have less to eat at greater cost than import goods.
Fair, but Not Fair Enough: Beyond Fair Trade Coffee
Kenneth Lander believes he has found a better way to put farmers first.
On America’s Farms, Data Is the New Cash Crop
Today's farmers are using all of the technology at their disposal to increase yields, which is critical if we hope to feed a rapidly growing population. But digitally driven farming is not without its potential downsides.
Cultivating Values on the College Farm, or, Revisionist History Has No Future
There are plenty of awful factory farms in the U.S. living up to the expression that "meat is murder." So why did a small college going the extra mile to be humane and sustainable face an orchestrated avalanche of wrath when it planned to slaughter two of its admittedly iconic oxen?
Sustainable Agriculture 9-1-1, or, That Time a College Tried to Feed Its Mascot to Students
Collegiate sustainability programs are booming. But consider the case of Green Mountain College as a cautionary tale for where they can go wrong.
Will China Ever Be Able to Support Itself Agriculturally?
Food safety is becoming a bigger worry than food security after a series of scandals.
Voters, Not Lobbyists, Deserve Blame for Our Crappy Farm Policies
A new working paper by two Duke economic policy researchers takes a close look at what influences lawmakers’ farm policy votes.
The Fescue Conundrum: Think Grass-Fed Beef Is Natural? It’s Time to Think Again
It may be better than the alternative, but it’s entirely disingenuous for producers and consumers to justify eating grass-fed beef on the essentialist grounds that it was “meant to be” that way.