Someone once told me you could survive on just peanut butter sandwiches and oranges. I have no idea if that's true, but the advice suggested a tasty lunch for a road trip. It was a freezing, foggy day last December, and I was preparing to drive from my home in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to California's Central Valley, the great agricultural heartland of a state that produces a third of the country's vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts. As I spread my peanut butter, I read the packages on my counter. My nine-grain bread promised, vaguely, that it was “made with natural ingredients.” My oranges were “locally grown.” My peanut butter jar assured me twice, once on each side, that the spread was “NON GMO.” It was even “CERTIFIED NON GMO.” The inspection must have been a rather cursory affair, given that there are no genetically modified peanuts on the market. … [Read more...] about GMOs Could be a Key to Sustainable Farming
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‘They’ve Gone Rogue’: Sheriff Battles Board Over Emergency Power
“This is something they did in a midnight coup d’état,” he said. “Even the last version that’s being presented right now by the board was delivered in the middle of the night and no one has seen it until now.” … [Read more...] about ‘They’ve Gone Rogue’: Sheriff Battles Board Over Emergency Power
