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on Obama's Popularity
Leo is right, the republican party has been given a mandate and an imperative by the tea party: Finish handing over the country to corporations or else. That's why the Koch corporation formed the tea party.
The idea that Barack Obama is moving toward the "center" is patently ridiculous when a windbag like Leo is happy with his shift. The republican party has done nothing but get more and more conservative over the past 30 years. That's why Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon look positively warm and fuzzy compared to the current crop of Tea Party elects.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Live from Haines: Ranching Roundtable
It's destructive if practiced in a short sighted manner. If you want to believe that there is no responsible (sustainable) manner in which to raise cattle, well then there is plenty of conventional thought out there to feed your philosophy. If you think killing animals for food is inherently cruel, then you have subscribed to a moral code about which there can be no discussion.
Equating worst practices with the practice itself is akin to calling a two- legged stool the platonic essence of a stool.
Another great reason to keep cattle ranching around is that cows are delicious.
posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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on Live from Haines: Ranching Roundtable
absolutely, tax breaks for good stewards!
posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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on Live from Haines: Ranching Roundtable
Rather than punishing ranchers overall with some ridiculous "methane tax" or other tax scheme that makes life hard on everybody and deepens the urban rural divide, what about a tax credit for ranchers who use responsible practices? Ranchers who practice management intensive grazing, fence off their streamsides and sell their beef as finished on pasture rather than grain are a net benefit to the environment. These practices foster biodiversity of working lands sequester carbon in the soil. This simultaneously reduces the carbon in the atmosphere and replenishes the soil. Many studies have been done that show that well- managed pasture has a net negative greenhouse gas contribution. We should encourage and reward that sort of business.
posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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on Getting Back to Work: Jobs and Identity
Here's a way to think about job and identity:
We had the pleasure of being put up in a nice apartment by a friend's uncle in Corsica, France. He was about 90 years old and he grew vegetables and grapes, made wine, hunted boar and fished and harvested sea urchin. He had lived in America for a while when he was younger and said that one of his greatest irritants of American culture/ mannerisms was the question "what do you do for a living?". His response, "I f#@$!&g breathe!"
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on The Fight Over Sugar Beets
Isn't it a little disingenuous to blame the organic market? The market exists because consumers want it there. In this state we have been denied the opportunity to choose crops grown without GM technology. Organic is really the only label we have.
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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on The Fight Over Sugar Beets
Just curious to hear how, exactly, roundup ready crop reduces herbicide use? Isn't the idea that the farmer can now be less discriminating in herbicide application since the crop is immune to it's effects?
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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