Tag: agriculture industry
Millions who prepare America’s food go hungry: Why food service workers...
Food service workers prepare meals for millions but often can’t afford to eat themselves, facing low wages, food insecurity, and corporate resistance to change.
Mexico pushes forward with ban of GMO corn, does not apply...
Under Mexico's new rule, the country will begin revoking permits allowing the import of GMO corn for animal feed and stop issuing any new permits by 2024.
Organic farms are under attack from agribusiness, weakened standards
For agrarian justice, family-scale organic farms deserve our support.
Rural politics, climate change and the 2020 elections, Part I
The solution is to reverse the balance of power between rural communities – particularly small farms – and the corporate giants that govern them, while promoting economic dynamism to build local wealth and restore the ecological balance to agriculture.
Taking farmers for a ride
Trump’s trade disruptions are inflicting real pain, but they’re also exposing the frailty of an agriculture economy built for big business.
Bayer, Monsanto acquisition a go
On June 7 "one of the world's largest pesticide producers will be combined with the world's largest seed company."
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The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...
Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Court filings describe a Homeland Security operation that infiltrated Minnesota unions and churches
Agents subpoenaed years of bank and payment records from the Sunrise Movement and two national unions, none of which has been charged with a crime.
Bulldozers begin clearing ground for border barriers inside Big Bend National Park
Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
‘My religion’s better than yours’ – so there!
To fix all truths on realms invisible Strikes skeptics as inadmissible.
Former police officer sentenced to federal prison for using excessive force
“The actions of Mr. Maynard are disturbing and violate the trust placed in him by the community.”