On That Date, No. 15
/"California now leads all other states in beef slaughter. It has put beef feeding on a factory basis . . ."
Read MoreThe First Bit of Sit-Down
/I don't want it to suck and I want it to bring the same pleasure that looking at a tree or a later summer evening skyfall brings.
Read MoreGet Over Thyselves. Please.
/You know what I say? I say cheers, etc. to Coors (now MillerCoors in North America) and Blue Moon.
Because the man is dead right: Blue Moon's been around longer than a whole lotta "craft" breweries. And like Jim Koch and Boston Beer Co., both Coors and Blue Moon have served as gateways to the world of craft beers. Back in the 1980s, when the "real" brewers scoffed at the fledgling crafties, the people at Coors reached out and helped.
So get over your crafty selves, people. Get over.
On That Date, No. 14
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Public domain
NOTE: This ran on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the old website; didn't get "published" here during the transition from old site to new.
“Cincinnati is the greatest place for hogs in the world; and they have the greatest method of raising them here of any other place which we know of. A man will turn out a bevy of young pigs . . . in December say . . . and they will run at large in the streets until the next November --- when he goes out to look up his pork.
Hogs look much alike, and [he] selects twelve of the finest looking . . . and drives them home, astonished at the increase. And thus, raising hogs, which is expensive elsewhere, is carried on without trouble or cost --- as they are fattened by the public at large, for the benefit of their owners.”
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“Swine,” Cincinnati Mirror 5, no. 8 (March 19, 1836): 63.
On That Date, No. 13
/“What we are witnessing is nothing short of a genetic revolution --- a revolution that’s going to transform agriculture and give millions of Americans a more abundant life. . . .
Read MoreIn Which Hammer Hits Nailhead
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Was going to post this on Facebook (had already posted it on Twitter), but realized that this is the kind of stuff I used to bring here. Back in the old days.
Anyway: I ran across this (via Twitter) this morning and want to make sure as many people as possible see it. The content is delightful and informative.
BUT: the Big Important Point is one that I've hammered at for a long time, and the one that drives all my work: It's a perfect, and I do mean perfect, example of how academics, experts, intellectuals of all kinds (scientists, anthropologists, historians, whatever) can use new media to communicate complex ideas to a wide audience.
Perfection.