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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Alone on the Range

Food Environment and Reporting Network

slide-intro --> Alone on the Range By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 Solos en la pradera By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 A Texas community chokes on fecal dust from cattle feedlots By Chris Collins , February 3, 2020 It’s illegal to take drone photos of feedlots in Texas. The industry insists health concerns are exaggerated. “We

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Solos en la pradera

Food Environment and Reporting Network

slide-intro --> Alone on the Range By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 Solos en la pradera By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 A Texas community chokes on fecal dust from cattle feedlots By Chris Collins , February 3, 2020 It’s illegal to take drone photos of feedlots in Texas. The industry insists health concerns are exaggerated. “We

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