The predictable re-emergence of mad cow disease on American shores brings to mind the Mandarin Chinese word for crisis — a combination of the ideograms for danger as well as opportunity. The danger is obvious and growing, as mathematical probability tells us there must be more than two mad cows among the 112 million or […]
Mark Dowie
Posted inWotr
Ranchers band together to break a monopoly on marketing
Step onto almost any ranch in the West nowadays and you’re likely to hear someone cussin’ the meatpackers. The next thing you might hear is a phone call from that same rancher to his or her congressman asking support for a ban on packer ownership of cattle. Packers are the people at the end of […]
Posted inApril 10, 2000: Beyond the Revolution
Notes from a fence-sitter
Though extremists on either side would never admit it, ranchers and greens care about the same things