Wednesday, November 15, 2000

The Dutch might build a six-story "farm" for pigs, chickens, salmon and crops. Bird van dan Barg, a pig specialist at the Animal Protection Society in the Hague, doesn't like the idea. "We are absolutely against it and so are the farmers," he says. "People do not like the idea of pigs living in flats." Jan De Wilt of the National Council for Agricultural Research in the Hague responds: If people can live in apartment buildings, so can pigs. If people don't like the idea, it's because they have a romantic view about agriculture. But that is not tenable.> Professor Fred Riggs may need to update Problems of Presidentialism and the American Exception when/if the current crisis in Florida ends, but I still recommend it as an exploration of the problems of presidentialism.>