While lab-grown, or “cultured,” meat has been studied since the 1950s, research and investment in the field has grown exponentially since the turn of the millennium.

Sometimes, while trying to hold a milker on a heifer intent on kicking it off or struggling to get a difficult dry cow into a trailer, I wondered – in all the sweat and anger and cussing – how we got to this moment. 

Having lived in the country for 12 years, I tell visitors that there is only one transgression that will get them in trouble: Do not mistake the Republic of Ireland for being in the U.K. It’s not taken well and for good reason.

If one goes back far enough into the history of most countries, one will find a violent struggle over land. In Brazil, the bloodshed continues.

As Mel Gibson said in Signs, some people see something unusual as more than coincidence. “They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there.” Whether they are right or wrong, such ideas can at least lead to a little entertainment.

The concept of Agriculture of the Middle is to create long-term relationships between farmers and local processors, retailers and distributors to help farmers receive a fairer price for what they produce, as well as to make sure that food is consumed in the area it is made.

Since 2021, the Gila National Forest has been the center of controversy regarding a herd of wild cattle that live there. In the 1950s, the New Mexico woods – the sixth largest national forest in the U.S. – devoted some of its land for grazing.

The concept of the uncanny valley doesn’t just apply to robots and wax statues but to anything that mimics human likeness closely enough to make us feel uncomfortable.