I may not be qualified to wrestle with Yarvin, Bronze Age Pervert, or the other titans of the new right, but I am prepared to enter the arena with their dietitian, Raw Egg Nationalist: www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

I have finally developed a foolproof way to make farming profitable. Whenever a Silicon Valley/finance guy, in the throes of a crisis of meaning, comes up with a plan to disrupt agriculture, for a mere 3% of the proposed budget I will tell him why it's a dumb idea.

It's died down a bit lately, but for a few months I routinely had people calling or emailing to ask if the government had forced me to give all my cattle mRNA vaccines. Absolutely not a real thing!

Good discussion about the tradeoffs between more and less intensive production. Worth a read!

I'm not just a farmer, I'm a sentimental, localist, mystical, cows in the pasture farmer. Because of this, people are often surprised to hear how much I respect the modern food system. @charlescmann.bsky.social has just begun an excellent new series that explains this apparent contradiction.

I am generally a raw milk centrist. Rigorous testing and limits on pooling/herd size/distribution strike me as a good balance of safety and choice. But the increasing prevalence of bird flu in dairy herds and the theoretical bird-> cow-> human chain of transmission is worrying.

You may have seen a cell phone video of RFK Jr. drinking methylene blue on a flight. I can't prove that Jack Kruse, a neurosurgeon turned paleo health influencer turned MAHA evangelist put him onto it, but I'd bet good money that's the case. Learn more here: www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

I've just written a brief post about last month's senate hearing on diet and chronic illness for Front Porch Republic.
www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/01/the-...

I am genuinely fascinated by the prospect of RFK as Secretary of HHS. If he attempts to implement the agenda he has outlined it will bring him into conflict with powerful competing interests.

Predictions: