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Unsustainable

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by Jim Rose in environmental economics Tags: agricultural economics

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Ten Reasons Why Choosing Organic Food is Immoral and Unsustainable

26 Aug 2025 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in environmental economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, resource economics Tags: agricultural economics

Next time someone expresses how righteous their food choices are, share this with them
Ten Reasons Why Choosing Organic Food is Immoral and Unsustainable

Anti-ag activists at it again

10 Jan 2025 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand Tags: agricultural economics, animal rights, Animal welfare

The anti-ag activist group Peta is at it again – using selective footage which appears to show animal abuse by shearers. If they were genuinely concerned about animal welfare they would have acted on the abuse immediately and reported incidents to the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and/or the SPCA. Instead they went to the […]
Anti-ag activists at it again

Food versus fuel: is farmland use out of balance? | FT Food Revolution

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by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: agricultural economics

Marshall’s Laws and The Grapes of Wrath

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by Jim Rose in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply Tags: agricultural economics

How to Harvest – Plant – Cook CASSAVA. a potentially lethal plant became the third most important crop in the tropics. The plant is very resilient, surviving where many other crops fail, and involves less human investment per calorie than potatoes. It is often poorer communities that rely on cassava for their survival.

13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health economics Tags: agricultural economics

What simple invention ended the Wild West?

01 Apr 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, survivor principle Tags: agricultural economics, creative destruction

The Terrifying Truth About Bananas

18 Feb 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture Tags: agricultural economics

Whatever happened to the food riots predicted by Ehrlich?

05 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: agricultural economics, pessimism bias, The Great Escape

Zebra vs Horses: Animal Domestication

28 Jun 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in industrial organisation Tags: agricultural economics, domestication, evolution

The Terrifying Truth About Bananas

23 May 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in environmental economics Tags: agricultural economics, GMOs

The Green Revolution

09 Apr 2018 Leave a comment

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So true

31 Mar 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: agricultural economics, food snobs, organic farming

Why Don’t Humans Ride Zebras?

28 Mar 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history Tags: agricultural economics, domestication

Why Avocados Shouldn’t Exist

24 Mar 2018 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economic history Tags: agricultural economics, natural selection

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