The recent U.S. National Organic Standards Board meeting reportedly ended in confusion, revealing how the use of subjective standards gives rise to philosophical debates that defy black-and-white answers. Exchanging Youth China and the EU agreed to a young farmer exchange program on the pretense that it is necessary to attract and maintain young blood in the farming sector as well as “stimulate a new generation of agri-entrepreneurs.” Such an exchange is likely to bring more technical benefit to the Chinese than the Europeans, but it will aid neither in the pursuit of youthful and entrepreneurial farmers. China’s Number One document this year referenced the largest factor needed to improve the economics and thus the appeal of the sector t...

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