
Alex Smith
@alexjmssmith
Editorial Director @thebti
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17-09-2019 22:07:14
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This Alex Smith essay on the consequences of RFKJr's vision for food and agriculture and Michael Grunwald New York Times Opinion essay on factory farming are worth reading together. breakthroughjournal.org/p/can-rfk-knee…

“Retaliatory measures threaten to undercut America’s largest producers and challenge their main source of comparative advantage—large-scale, efficient production of commodity products.” via Alex Smith breakthroughjournal.org/p/the-world-is…

"Clearly there is room for change in how American producers feed the U.S. and the world, but a trade war is not the way to make that change." Alex Smith on Trump's tariff policy and its implications for U.S. food production for Breakthrough journal breakthroughjournal.org/p/the-world-is…


Even though 1st Trump administration compensated US farmers, US trade war with China resulted in substantial long term loss of market share for US farmers. That's bad for US farmers, global agriculture, and environment. Alex Smith in Breakthrough Journal. open.substack.com/pub/thebreakth…

MAHA's narrow focus on pesticides, seed oils, UPFs is setting the movement's vision for the food system up to fail -- distracting from the chance to invest in real public health interventions, while making healthy foods less affordable and accessible. breakthroughjournal.org/p/mythbusting-…