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Food Culture and Red Tape: A Tale of Two Agricultural Systems

Food Culture and Red Tape: A Tale of Two Agricultural Systems
A cheesemaker's farm in Balazowka, Poland, on June 25, 2024. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images
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Returning from a week of conducting farm workshops in Poland, I’m struck by the broad cultural heritage that permeates the regulatory climate. It helped put in perspective how a society’s heritage has a long tail into government bureaucracy.

Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin
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Joel F. Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author. Salatin raises livestock on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct marketing to consumers and restaurants.
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