Comments for Meatconomy http://www.meatconomy.com Musings on meat, risk, and PhD life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:16:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on About by Sasha Cuerda http://www.meatconomy.com/?page_id=2&cpage=1#comment-978 Sasha Cuerda Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:28:33 +0000 http://www.meatconomy.com/?page_id=2#comment-978 Yes it must be the rainy day! No, school is great, but part of my reason for starting this blog is to try and force myself to translate the narrow world of academic-speak into terms that are relevant for people trying to understand the world. Being deep in the throws of preparing for my qualifying exams I find myself often wondering how my educate can lead to action out in the world. Part of the reason why I've chosen to study food and agriculture is that what I admire about those who are directly involved is that they are so consciously involved in the practice of turning theory into action and back again. Thanks for reading and I hope I can keep the wit factor high! Yes it must be the rainy day! No, school is great, but part of my reason for starting this blog is to try and force myself to translate the narrow world of academic-speak into terms that are relevant for people trying to understand the world. Being deep in the throws of preparing for my qualifying exams I find myself often wondering how my educate can lead to action out in the world. Part of the reason why I’ve chosen to study food and agriculture is that what I admire about those who are directly involved is that they are so consciously involved in the practice of turning theory into action and back again. Thanks for reading and I hope I can keep the wit factor high!

]]> Comment on About by MK http://www.meatconomy.com/?page_id=2&cpage=1#comment-977 MK Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:49:09 +0000 http://www.meatconomy.com/?page_id=2#comment-977 Sasha, I'm so pleased to have found your blog. Please keep posting away! I've fallen out of the academic circuit since I finished my schooling and became a farmer, and it is pleasure to find such a balanced, witty, contemporary blog about food. You almost make me want to go back to school myself (but that is probably the rainy day talking). Sasha, I’m so pleased to have found your blog. Please keep posting away! I’ve fallen out of the academic circuit since I finished my schooling and became a farmer, and it is pleasure to find such a balanced, witty, contemporary blog about food. You almost make me want to go back to school myself (but that is probably the rainy day talking).

]]> Comment on Monsanto’s Drought Resistant Corn and the Myth of Yield Improvement by Peter Frank http://www.meatconomy.com/?p=46&cpage=1#comment-968 Peter Frank Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:03:52 +0000 http://www.meatconomy.com/?p=46#comment-968 Preach on brother! My blood boils whenever I hear Monsant0 claim they're working to solve world hunger. Their latest spots on NPR claiming they're working to identify sustainable ag solutions, drive me crazy too. Monstrously profitable companies like Monsanto are not, and have never been focused on charity. They're built to make a profit, which they do very well. "Hunger is a problem of distribution and NOT production". That point needs to be driven home as aggressively and slickly as they promote their BS. You need to get yourself a PR department full of young twittering interns, desperate for a job. Monsanto may have a rebuttal to some of the claims against them, but there's no reasonable response to explain how the mounds of unused seed corn and overflowing silos throughout the Midwest are magically feeding poor people in Africa. Preach on brother! My blood boils whenever I hear Monsant0 claim they’re working to solve world hunger. Their latest spots on NPR claiming they’re working to identify sustainable ag solutions, drive me crazy too. Monstrously profitable companies like Monsanto are not, and have never been focused on charity. They’re built to make a profit, which they do very well.

“Hunger is a problem of distribution and NOT production”. That point needs to be driven home as aggressively and slickly as they promote their BS. You need to get yourself a PR department full of young twittering interns, desperate for a job.

Monsanto may have a rebuttal to some of the claims against them, but there’s no reasonable response to explain how the mounds of unused seed corn and overflowing silos throughout the Midwest are magically feeding poor people in Africa.

]]> Comment on From food safety to bicycles by AndrewBoldman http://www.meatconomy.com/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-965 AndrewBoldman Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:07:17 +0000 http://www.meatconomy.com/?p=27#comment-965 Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing. Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.

]]> Comment on More thoughts on pig disease by KrisBelucci http://www.meatconomy.com/?p=13&cpage=1#comment-964 KrisBelucci Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:31:12 +0000 http://www.meatconomy.com/?p=13#comment-964 Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing. Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.

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