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TONY THE TIGER

Kellogg’s is spinning off some if not all of its breakfast cereal lines in a move that mature businesses take sometimes to streamline lagging sectors.

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Joel & Dr. Temple Grandin

At the Homestead Festival in Columbia, Tennessee hosted by Rory Feek I had the unprecedented privilege of spending 90 minutes on stage, one-on-one, with Dr. Temple Grandin, a true American icon if ever there was one…

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REGULATORY TRENDS

Smithfield Foods Inc. has just announced that in early 2023—less than a year from now—it will close its processing plant in Vernon, California (near Los Angeles). It operates 45 plants throughout the U.S., owned by umbrella company WHGroup Ltd. out of Hong Kong but really a Chinese company.

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APPRECIATE AMERICAN FREEDOMS

Yesterday we had a delightful Australian couple drop by the farm. They’re Queensland natives, in their 60s, sharp small business owners all their lives, and have now fled Australia for America under the immigration investment program…

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INTESTINES FOR VEGANS

By now you’ve no doubt heard about the two children in France killed and many sickened by E. coli in pizza made from Nestle wheat dough…

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FROM REGS TO CHOICE

My what a difference a week makes. I flew to Oregon a few days ago and then this week flew to California.

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“HOLY CHICKEN”

Last week, as background for a school essay she had to write, my granddaughter Lauryn watched Morgan Spurlock’s HOLY CHICKEN movie…

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TWO DAYS OF TRUTH NUMBER TWO

All of you know I try to keep advertising to a minimum on this blog, but from time to time something big

enough happens to warrant shouting about, and TWO DAYS OF TRUTH is it…

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BEAK MASKS

As avian influenza runs through the nation’s poultry flocks, with the current extermination of about 28 million laying hens and turkeys, I can’t help but wonder why we aren’t putting beak masks on the chickens.

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WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

If you’ve seen news headlines you know that a research team in the Netherlands examined blood from 22 people and found microscopic plastic particles in the bloodstream of 17. For the first time, this confirms that micro-plastics are piercing the blood barrier and coursing through our veins…

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THE DENOMINATOR

I did a fascinating guest podcast last week with Dr. Ben Edwards out of west Texas called “You’re the Cure.” I do a lot of these but he shared something with me I’ve never heard and thought it profound…

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