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The Cardinal Lawyer: Agriculture = Applied environmental protection

Professor Andy Kleinschmidt of Ohio State University Extension, also known as @akleinschmidt on Twitter, has honored me in a way that is as flattering as it is unusual. During a recent #foodchat session on Twitter (which alternates with the related #agchat series), I remarked: "Q7: I try to describe agriculture as applied environmental protection, just as agricultural economics is now 'applied economics.' #foodchat"

Professor Kleinschmidt very generously turned this Tweet into a t-shirt:

The idea for this shirt came from Jim Chen, Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Louisville, during a live Twitter discussion. Dean Chen?s (known as @chenx064 on Twitter) original quote was ?I try to describe agriculture as applied environmental protection, just as agricultural economics is now applied economics.? I?ve known that agricultural economics is described as applied economics and also applied agricultural economics, so that was not new to me. BUT I had never heard agriculture referred to as ?applied environmental protection.? Brilliant! I thought the saying should be made into a shirt, and with Dean Chen?s blessing I made the shirt via Zazzle. . . . This shirt is all-organic cotton. I spend 99% of my time working with conventional agriculture, so I specifically chose organic in an effort to support other choices in farming. In my view all farming is good, just different approaches. . . . The shirt is made in the USA by American Apparel. I?ve also added ?via @chenx064 on Twitter? to give Dean Chen appropriate credit and for you to show how ?hip? you are knowing about Twitter.

I invite you to order the shirt.

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Full post as published by University of Louisville Law Faculty on July 25, 2009 (boomark / email).