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The Food System Is Not Broken Or, at least, the bits that are can be fixed
23 February 2026

“You are more likely to find the raw ingredients for a better future for the food system at the Waffle House than you are at your local farmers’ market.”

The Paradox of Plenty More and cheaper is not better
28 April 2025

For much of the world, food has never been as abundant or as inexpensive as it is now, but at what cost?

Farming’s Overlords Twenty-first century serfdom
14 April 2025

Size and market concentration lock farmers onto a technological treadmill that does nobody any good, excpet for the giant corporations and their shareholders

Some thoughts on markets and such Excessive speculation is like pornography
12 December 2022

Speculators can actually drive prices higher, which was news to me

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