Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.

The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I mistrust it. Poultry, a significant part of the modern diet, is emblematic of the whole dirty deal. Having no self-sustaining bloodlines to back up the industry is like having no gold standard to underpin paper currency. Maintaining a natural breeding poultry flock is a rebellion, at the most basic level, against the wholly artificial nature of how foods are produced.

We have a unique form of biotech in Illinois and a lot revolves around agriculture, food processing and alternative forms of energy.

We need food to survive, this underscores the importance of agriculture

Making Agriculture sexy requires creativity

Eating is an agricultural act.