Local And Just

Let’s get food policy on the municipal plate. This summer I was introduced – at least for the first time in a meaningful way – to what I like to call “the food issue”. The complex set of issues umbrella-ed under the term has implications on us all – whether you’re a farmer or just [...]

High finance really intrigues me. Shocking, I know, because who wants to talk about financial instruments? Futures, swaps, derivatives, blah, and blah. While the nature of high finance is obscure, their effects on the real world are painstakingly real. This fact is demonstrated when food is traded as a commodity, like any other piece of [...]