While manning my new Cooper's Hawk last evening (a process falconers take new birds through which requires hours of sitting and bonding with a wild bird in preparation for the hunting season), I watched the first 40 minutes of a documentary released in 2009 called Vanishing of the Bees. To make a long story short, …
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How to Put an End to our Nation’s Health Crisis
The other day someone mentioned to me that America's health crisis could be largely resolved if people would avoid everything in the middle of the grocery store and only buy items currently on the outer walls. I had to think about the statement for a moment, but once the picture of the last grocery store …
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U.S. Farmers Cope with Roundup Resistant Weeds: Address the Cause not the Symptom
There was an excellent article in the New York Times yesterday that underlines the risk of addressing symptoms rather than the underlying cause when addressing problems (see http://tinyurl.com/3yw758o). Such an approach offers appealing and typically profitable short-term gains, but invariably produces long-term side-effects and costs that outweigh the initial benefits. A biodynamic and organic farmer friend of mine argues that weeds thrive only in compromised soil. …
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Gregory Hake 