Back in 2003, Michael Lewis wrote “Money Ball,” a book about how an Oakland, CA baseball team under head coach Billy Beane used player statistics to hire team members that gave them the greatest chance of a championship season at the lowest cost. So by 2009 it was pretty clear what was coming when President [...]
For many years, environmentalists – many of whom seem to hate the very synthetic chemicals that make modern society, high standards of living and the modern “environmental chic” lifestyle possible – have teamed with a small but growing sub-segment of farmers to push for policies that treat ‘organic’ agricultural products as if they were special. [...]
You might be a redneck locavore if you refer to the squirrels in your yard as “free range.” One of the fastest growing environmental fads is the push to cut “food miles,” and transportation-related carbon emissions, by buying locally grown food. Those who adhere to this philosophy, known as “locavores,” believe that buying food from [...]
Two important energy/environmental policy decisions were made yesterday that have serious implications both geopolitically and in the U.S. One of the decisions – the one that got all the media attention – was President Obama’s choice to sink domestic offshore oil production and force America further into subservience and abject dependence on foreign oil supplies. [...]
In an article in Heartland’s Environment & Climate News I detail the FDA’s long overdue approval of the first genetically modified animal for human consumption — the Aquabounty Salmon. After ten years of development, testing, paperwork, hearings, etc… the FDA found that the salmon was safe for human consumption and posed no threat to the [...]