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Garth Brown @garthcbrown.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Is lab-grown meat really the future? In a new book Bruce Friedrich argues the case, but I have my doubts: www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/05/the-...

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The Prospect of a Meat-Free Future - Front Porch Republic

There are problems that we do not have the luxury of waiting for lab-grown burgers to solve.

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Garth Brown @garthcbrown.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I may not be qualified to wrestle with Yarvin, Bronze Age Pervert, or the other titans of the new right, but I am prepared to enter the arena with their dietitian, Raw Egg Nationalist: www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

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Food Is Not Magic

You may not be able to eat your way to immortality or manliness, but food is something we can make and enjoy together.

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Garth Brown @garthcbrown.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I have finally developed a foolproof way to make farming profitable. Whenever a Silicon Valley/finance guy, in the throes of a crisis of meaning, comes up with a plan to disrupt agriculture, for a mere 3% of the proposed budget I will tell him why it's a dumb idea.

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Garth Brown @garthcbrown.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It's died down a bit lately, but for a few months I routinely had people calling or emailing to ask if the government had forced me to give all my cattle mRNA vaccines. Absolutely not a real thing!

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Garth Brown @garthcbrown.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Good discussion about the tradeoffs between more and less intensive production. Worth a read!

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Garth Brown @garthcbrown.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I'm not just a farmer, I'm a sentimental, localist, mystical, cows in the pasture farmer. Because of this, people are often surprised to hear how much I respect the modern food system. @charlescmann.bsky.social has just begun an excellent new series that explains this apparent contradiction.

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Garth Brown @garthcbrown.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I am generally a raw milk centrist. Rigorous testing and limits on pooling/herd size/distribution strike me as a good balance of safety and choice. But the increasing prevalence of bird flu in dairy herds and the theoretical bird-> cow-> human chain of transmission is worrying.

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Garth Brown @garthcbrown.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

You may have seen a cell phone video of RFK Jr. drinking methylene blue on a flight. I can't prove that Jack Kruse, a neurosurgeon turned paleo health influencer turned MAHA evangelist put him onto it, but I'd bet good money that's the case. Learn more here: www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

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Can You Solve a Lifestyle Epidemic Without Lifestyle Gurus?

When you’ve got a “diseases of civilization” crisis, you’re gonna get some weirdos.

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Garth Brown @garthcbrown.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I am genuinely fascinated by the prospect of RFK as Secretary of HHS. If he attempts to implement the agenda he has outlined it will bring him into conflict with powerful competing interests. Predictions:

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