All Posts Tagged With: "food production"
Safe Food at Any Cost
We all want safe food. Question is, how do we get it? “There oughta be a law” seems to be the generally conceived approach, as evidenced by recent passage of the now-famous food safety bill. A tidy and altogether comforting solution: Simply slay the beast of dangerous food with the bludgeon of enlightened bureaucracy. But [...]
21Apr2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
Bjørn Lomborg has shaken up the world of environmentalists. Describing himself as “an old left-wing Greenpeace member,” the Danish statistician has produced a book that undermines most of the apocalyptic scares that keep Greenpeace afloat. The Skeptical Environmentalist makes a persuasive case that the environment is improving, not getting worse, and that most of the [...]
30Jun2010 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | ContinuedFood, Famine, and Free Trade
For decades population doomsayers have been predicting that massive famines were around the corner. Yet the United Nations Population Fund recently released its report “The State of the World’s Population 1999,” which says, “The world’s population is healthier from infancy through old age than it ever has been.”1 In a press release the United Nations [...]
1Apr2000 | James Peron | 0 comments | Continued-
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