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Matt Taibbi writes in Substack:

“The star [Tim Robbins] of films like The Player and Bull Durham opens up about two tough years of pandemic politics, and worries society is purposefully phasing out the common meeting space… After the COVID-19 crisis began, actor Tim Robbins was like everyone else in suddenly having both more time to think, and more unpleasant things to think about.

‘I wondered,’ [Robbins] recalls now, ‘What happens when you eliminate the water cooler conversation?’

Would we miss that ‘difficult conversation with someone who’s not one of your friends, but a coworker and a human being,’ who’s ‘saying something that is not the way you see the world, but he’s right there and you have to hear it?’ Robbins felt we might, because confronting a live human being forces people to use parts of their brain the Internet encourages them to bypass… Robbins goes on: ‘These last few years, they’ve taught me so much, about what is right, what is wrong. There’s so much empowerment of people that feel that they are being incredibly virtuous and generous, yet are doing things that are not very kind to other people. I think we’ve lost ourselves during this time. Just a brief stroll through social media and you’ll find that out. (laughs) The internet has become like a bar that you go to, and you open the door, and everyone yells, ‘Fuck you! Get out!’”

Read more: Tim Robbins and the Lost Art of Finding Common Ground

In the Foreward to the new book, Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World, by Ridge Shinn and Lynn Pledger, renowned holistic rancher Gabe Brown writes:

“It seems that every day we wake up to a new crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and high fuel prices to empty store shelves and war in Ukraine. Our world is in a constant state of change. While many cry doomsday, some, like Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger, know that the secret to resiliency in a changing world can be found through healthy soil, created with the help of grazing ruminants.

Relying on a lifetime of experience with cattle and resource conservation, Ridge and Lynne take us on a journey through production agriculture in the United States. They explain how farmers and ranchers went from grazing livestock on pasture to confining cattle in grassless pens where grain and by-products are brought to them—grain and by-products that are grown with synthetics (fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides) and the heavy use of fossil fuels. These practices, in no small part, have led to the degradation of our soils, our waters, and, at least to some degree, our health.

This has led many to vilify animals, cows in particular, and falsely claim that they are largely responsible for climate change. This book helps to set the record straight: This new method of grazing cattle has a net climate benefit. As Ridge and Lynne so truthfully state, ‘Regenerative grazing will change the way our society thinks about beef, because the grazing itself is as significant as the meat.’”

Read more: Feeding the World: Why Regenerative Grazing Is So Important

Watch a previous Regeneration International podcast with OCA/RI’s Alexis Baden-Mayer: Grass Fed Beef for a Post Pandemic World

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Reuters reports:

“A broad coalition of Mexican lawmakers is pushing to ban nearly 200 chemicals used in pesticides, saying they endanger human health, and the plan has alarmed farmers who say the move could devastate the country’s food production.

There is a growing movement in Mexico against the use of pesticides and genetically modified crops, but some in the government have said the latest proposal goes too far, too fast…

Supporters say the proposal puts Mexico at the heart of a global movement to restrict dangerous pesticides. Critics warn it would go well beyond steps taken in other countries seen as tough on pesticides such as in Europe, banning chemicals allowed in those places.

“There will be those who do not agree… But most of us are supporting our president’s project and we are going to win the vote,” MORENA Senator Ana Lilia Rivera, one of the lawmakers behind the initiative, told Reuters.

Asked about the proposal during a regular news conference on Wednesday, [Mexico President] Lopez Obrador said it was important to put health first…”

Read more: Mexican Lawmakers Push Wider Pesticides Ban; Farm Groups Alarmed