Jan 29Member-onlyTyre Nichols: The Memphis Police Didn’t Fail. They Did Exactly What They Were Designed to Do“This is the definition of excessive force.” “We do our level-best to weed out officers who are looking to exercise power and violence.” “What we’ve seen breaks every rule and guideline in police training.” And yet… so-called “warrior training” is prevalent and popular with police departments all over the country…Police Brutality5 min readPolice Brutality5 min read
Jan 12Member-onlyPart 2: How I Cut My Food Budget by 40%, Meat Consumption by 50%, and Food Waste by 99%, Without Giving Up A ThingI wrote this guide to NoAusterity meal planning a few months ago to illustrate how I was using weekly meal planning to lower my food costs, reduce waste, and eat less meat without feeling like I was eating less meat. After those few months implementing this plan with my family…Food6 min readFood6 min read
Jan 9Member-onlyThere’s a Better Reason to Hate Crypto“Blockchain is a solution in search of a problem.” I don’t remember where I read those words, though it was probably right here on Medium. …Cryptocurrency6 min readCryptocurrency6 min read
Jan 9Member-onlyBuy Local. But Not To “Keep Money in Your Community.”Let’s keep it simple: “Keeping money in your community” is one of the linchpins of the small-farmers marketing toolkit. It’s also (arguably) bigger than all the lies and half-truths told by regenerative agriculture combined. The notion of keeping food dollars local has two problems. One: it doesn’t actually work, and…Agriculture5 min readAgriculture5 min read
Jan 5Member-onlyI Deleted All My Social Media. Here’s What Happened.Quick backstory: I spent the better part of a decade building up my business’ presence on various social media platforms. Never made it big or anything, but by the end of 2022 we had some 39K followers on Instagram, 25K on TikTok, 13K on Facebook, and around 11K on Twitter…Social Media7 min readSocial Media7 min read
Jan 4Member-onlyThe Trouble with the Global Perspective on FarmingAnother great question from a recent Ask Me Anything: Do you know anything about or have interest in exploring farming outside the US context? Smallholders in India and Indigenous farmers in Latin America seem to be doing some interesting stuff and are highly critical of the Gates Foundation etc that…Agriculture4 min readAgriculture4 min read
Jan 4Member-onlyA User’s Guide to Land BackHad a great question from my last Ask Me Anything: “could you explain how non-Indigenous people can be thoughtful about approaching tribes or Indigenous organizations around land and other material reparations?” Here are a few things to be mindful of as you navigate this landscape: Politically-Speaking, Many Tribes are a Hot Mess Most people with land, money…Landback7 min readLandback7 min read
Dec 24, 2022Member-onlyChatGPT is Going to Destroy MediumI left Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. I’ll leave this platform, too. Having been on this platform since 2017 or 2018 or whatever, I think I’m one of the elder writers around here. I was here in the good old days before paid memberships were a thing, when the platform…Chatgpt7 min readChatgpt7 min read
Dec 10, 2022Member-onlyWe Don’t Have to Stop Eating Meat to Stop Climate ChangeReal solutions to climate change are delightfully boring — During an “Ask Me Anything” on my soon-to-be-retired Instagram, one fellow asked for: “Resources to counter the ‘cows are causing climate change no matter how you raise them’ argument” There was a time not long ago where I’d have jumped headlong into a point-by-point debate with anyone suggesting that cattle…Climate Change8 min readClimate Change8 min read
Dec 2, 2022Member-onlyWhy Restaurants and Grocers Don’t Donate FoodFive Things I Learned When I Got Sued (for something completely unrelated) Food waste is rightly described as the world’s dumbest problem: We throw away something like half of the food we produce while agribusiness and biotech simultaneously insist we need to drive up yields and over-engineer our food…Food7 min readFood7 min read
