The next really big thing in food: you!

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Fri., 5/18/12

Attention foodies: Let's chow down! There's a new craze in CuisineWorld, and it's going 180-degrees in the opposite direction from the healthy-eating movement we hear so much about.

For example,... [read more]

Another Koch-funded stealth campaign

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Thu., 5/17/12

Millions of children in our public schools will soon be hearing from the Heartland Institute. It might sound like a nice above board civic group promoting such salt-of-the-earth virtues as integrity and veracity, but quite... [read more]

Listen to the weeds

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Wed., 5/16/12

Rather than finding ways to cooperate with the natural world, America's agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is that if brute force isn't... [read more]

Anheuser-Busch, drunk on greed

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Tue., 5/15/12

The big brewers often admonish us imbibers of their grain products to "Drink Responsibly." Well, I say back to them: Lobby Responsibly.

In particular, I point to a disgusting binge of... [read more]

Et tu, England?

Cowboy hat By Jim Hightower - Mon., 5/14/12

I guess we Americans could take some comfort from the fact that our own plutocrats on Wall Street and in Washington are not the only clueless, out-of-touch, bunch of narcissistic leaders in the world. But,... [read more]