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Viewpoints

Viewpoints features essays and interviews by the Center for a Livable Future’s staff, faculty, fellows and other affiliates. These opinions are opinions—not  representations of the Center’s priorities, activities or stances.

 

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Food Policy & Governance, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries

A Red State Rejects the Right to Farm

Oklahoma elected a right-wing presidential candidate who has promised to do away with environmental regulations, while simultaneously voting to uphold current regulations on farming and ranching.

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Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries

Can Kids Go Vegan?

Children are not little adults. They have special nutrition needs for growth and development.

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Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries

Eating Less Meat May Help Your Gut

Our gut microbiome plays a complicated and important role in many aspects of our health.

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Food Animal Production, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries

Edible Insects: Ethics, Efficiency, and the Vegan Dilemma

How did I, a vegan of over five years, find myself eating mealworms and crickets?

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Remembering Sid Mintz

I am one of many who called Sid Mintz a friend.

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Ralph Loglisci 1971-2016

Ralph was a hale fellow well met.

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Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries

Risk Assessment and Processed Meats

The IARC’s “carcinogen” classification doesn’t really tell us how dangerous processed meats are.

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Food Animal Production

The USDA Is Gonna Do What?

The outbreak of several Asian-origin Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (HPAI) viruses is still wreaking havoc for industrial egg and turkey integrators.

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Food Animal Production

Poultry Contracting and Tournament Pricing

The current system is built on the contract production relationship between the producer (farmer) and the large integrator (company).

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Remembering Brother Dave Andrews

Brother Dave’s concern about food equity and food justice had an international component and he was a regular at the United Nations’ conference on food and animal production.

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