By far the most common question people ask me is, “Can the Polyface approach feed the world?” Yet another big op-ed piece in the New York Times on Sept 28 took this position to marginalize non-chemical agriculture, using the oft-quoted idea that we would need three times as much farmland to produce […]
How do you find your way home when you’re lost and far away? Where do you start? In wilderness survival training, it’s “head downhill.” That will bring you to water, and water will bring you to civilization. Let’s look at the last two weeks: I irritated conservative friends a few days ago by […]
The operative word of our time is disentanglement. How many people do we run into that say, I just want to disentangle. I don’t want to feel dependent on the education system. So we have a tsunami of homeschooling. I don’t want to be dependent on the healthcare system. So […]
When I was on Joe Rogan’s podcast in early 2020, his medical people pricked my finger for a blood sample to find out if I had Covid. Or if I had had Covid. About 30 minutes later, they said I didn’t have the antibodies. I asked if that meant I’d had it, been exposed to […]