Tag: forcing farmers

Sure we can’t trust politicians to do what they say, but now we also can’t trust them to even say something remotely truthful. Take Rick Perry for example: For a small-government conservative on the presidential campaign stump like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a new federal regulation forcing farmers to get commercial drivers licenses would make a […]

Stories like his always make me think of how much we are screwing with Mother Nature and how much she fights back: But farmers sprayed so much Roundup that weeds quickly evolved to survive it. “What we’re talking about here is Darwinian evolution in fast-forward,” Mike Owen, a weed scientist at Iowa State University, said. […]