Owning Life versus Thwarting the Hygiene Hypothesis

  With such a provocative title as “Pet Ownership Protects Us Against Allergies,” UCSF’s Dr. Homer Boushey makes the claim that children brought up with pets inherit some of their protective microbes that mitigate against developing allergies....

Agroecology Now

This is my response to Frances Moore Lappé’s recent essay Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now  on the Great Transitions Network’s website. Yogi Hendlin, “Commentary on ‘Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now,'” Great...