Rural Minnesotans: ‘No Pesticides on Those Fries’
Communities say harmful chemicals used on potatoes sold to McDonald's have caused years of health effects.
View ArticleNew Biopic Chronicles UFW Co-Founder Dolores Huerta, Working Class Heroine
An ideal film to open over Labor Day weekend, Dolores is a stand-up-and-cheer biopic about one of the American left’s iconic heroes, Dolores Huerta.
View ArticleHouse Dems Agree: Starving Children to Pay for Trump Tax Cuts a Terrible Idea
Rebecca Vallas of the Center for American Progress speaks on how a Republican Farm Bill proposal collapsed under the weight of it’s own cruelty.
View ArticleFarmers Want Fair Trade, Not Handouts
If Trump really wants to earn farmers’ trust, then his administration needs to seriously work on legislation that ensures them a fair price that covers their cost of production.
View ArticleHow Farmers Can Survive Tariffs
In America’s farm country, the fear is palpable. We need a new model of agriculture, and fortunately, one exists.
View ArticleHere Comes the Farm Bill
The Democratic midterm take-over of the House means a renewed chance for policies that don’t take food assistance away from children or drive more birds toward extinction.
View ArticleTo Help Farmers, Rein in Agribusiness
Trump promises to increase soy exports to China—but if the deal goes through, only corporate interests will benefit.
View ArticleThe Social Justice Photography of David Bacon: Part Three, At the Funeral of...
Everyone carried flags with the union’s black eagle—some adding “Arizona” or the name of some other state they’d arrived from. The United Fruit Workers organized a march from Delano to Sacramento to...
View ArticleDon’t Be Distracted by that Burning Pile of Soybeans
The impact of disrupted trade markets is definitely negative. But focusing too closely on the trade war distracts from the real underlying problem.
View ArticleHow Dollar Stores Prey on the Poor
“Their whole strategy is to go to a neighborhood that has a lot of poor people who don’t have access to transportation and can only walk to and from the dollar store.”
View ArticleBeyond the Slaughterhouse
A look at a new industry working to produce real meat without killing animals.
View ArticleThe Problem with Meat
The meat, dairy, and egg industries are unhealthy, unhappy, and unsafe. It’s time we put them out to pasture.
View ArticleRebuild Farmer-Labor Solidarity
COVID-19 has created new opportunities to reform the nation’s food system.
View ArticleU.S. Food System Needs Reform
The pandemic has exposed critical weaknesses in our food system.
View ArticleMake the Corn Belt a Carbon Belt
The fact is, the billions spent on the farm sector today are neither protecting the future of U.S. agriculture nor preserving the traditional family farm.
View ArticleHow Vilsack Should Use His Second Chance
The problems he struggled with during his first stint as agriculture secretary, from corporate concentration to racism, have not gone away.
View ArticleChicagoland’s COVID-19 Jungle
A new report reveals unsafe working conditions for food production, distribution, and logistics workers in Illinois.
View ArticleConquering Hunger in the U.S.
Millions of Americans are hungry because they lack the means to pay for food.
View Article‘Essential’ Workers Still Endangered by COVID-19
Biden and Congress must boost OSHA standards and enforcement to stifle the pandemic.
View ArticleInternational Solidarity for India’s Farmers
Protests are growing in many countries as India’s farmers enter their fourth month of protests against pro-corporate agriculture ruling.
View ArticleDisadvantaged Farmers Deserve Help
Racism in agriculture is a historic fact that must be confronted directly.
View ArticleFrom Negligence to Malevolence: How the Climate Crisis has Gone Critical
Human-induced climate change has gotten so bad that our only hope isn’t to reverse it, but to simply save what we can.
View ArticleFarmers Need More Federal Help
There must be a sincere attempt to improve the rules of the game to ensure fair competition.
View ArticleMiddle America: A Family Farm’s Demise, a Democracy’s Decline
Just before the holidays, a Wisconsin state news outlet called Up North News carried a sad story: The family dairy farm where Robert M. La Follette, the great progressive politician and founder of this...
View ArticleFarmers on the Frontlines
A changing climate creates new challenges—and opportunities to make a difference.
View ArticleOur Pending Farmland Crisis
Aging farmers, like us, must make decisions about what to do with their farms, as their children move to urban areas and real estate developers are eager to buy their land for new subdivisions.
View ArticleA Way of Life Being Lost
Wendell Berry and his daughter, Mary, fight for the survival of the family farm.
View ArticleIf We Want Climate-Friendly Food, We Should Support Young Farmers
Young farmers should be our beacon of hope to avoid another Dust Bowl, capture carbon, and feed our population. But there’s a huge caveat: We have set them up to fail.
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