• 17
  • Jan2021

Eat Meat? Wear Leather!

Ranchers are experts at raising cattle.  The ones I’ve met are proud of their beef.  What about the hides, where leather comes from?  What is the impact of producing leather, or not producing leather, on the environment?  Farmers and ranchers have two choices when dealing with hides, they can either throw them out or convert […]

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  • 17
  • Jan2021

Talking About Hemp

Talking about hemp is like talking about inside baseball.  Unless you one of the legions that have found benefits with cannabidiol (CBD), most people in the US and elsewhere have a faint idea that industrial hemp and marijuana are related and assume they are probably both illegal.  People in the industry, throughout the supply chain […]

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  • 19
  • Sep2018

Thai’s Love of Food

Thailand is Southeast Asia’s second largest economy, with a GDP of $407 billion in 2016. Exports account for more than 54 percent of its GDP. According to the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), Thailand’s GDP growth is at 3.5 percent in 2017 compared to 3.2 percent growth in 2016 and the 3.3 percent […]

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