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

Modern Farmer

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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Summer reading 2024: Our recommended food and farming reads

Sustainable Food Trust

Joyce’s book, Remembering Peasants , sets out to document this fast-vanishing population, which has been devastated by social change, war and the relentless expansion of industrial agriculture. A life-enhancing read from the author of the bestselling gem The Secret Life of Cows.”

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Op-ed: Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?

Civil Eats

As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket. What does that mean for pasture-raised poultry, which spend most of their lives outdoors and therefore are at greater risk of contact with contagious wild birds? They are out on pasture, eating grass. There are, though, other ways of making an omelet.

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