academic freedom

Cud-Chewing Contrarians

November 19, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
academic freedom, Aldo Leopold, corporate influence, grass-fed, Iowa State University, ISU, land grant mission, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agricuture, sustainable agriculture, Troubled Waters

Did cattle evolve to eat grass, or is all that talk about rumens, abomasums and cuds just a bunch of baseless, elitist, tree-hugger new-age propaganda? Don’t ask that question at Iowa State…
Troubled Waters-Troubled U

September 18, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
academic freedom, Agri-Growth Council, corporate agriculture, John Himle, Karen Himle, Larkin McPhee, Troubled Waters, U of M, University of Minnesota

When the Daily Planet revealed this week that the U of M has pulled the plug on the premiere of an important film about farming and the Mississippi River, it wasn’t just…