Tag: agriculture
Inequality is feeding America
It's time to treat all farm workers with the respect due to the people who really are essential to our food security.
17 ways the Trump administration assaulted the environment over the holidays
New rules could affect everything from clean power to migratory birds, and they’re just a hint of what’s yet to come.
The anti-science seed treaty
Does the Seed Treaty run counter to science, agricultural development, and intellectual property rights?
How a Climate Crisis Can Lead Farmers to Joint Planning and...
The time to make it happen is now. This will build capital based on trust and a common vision of a shared future.
3 Pesticides Are Putting Nearly All U.S. Endangered Species At Risk
"This is a huge wake-up call."
The Agriculture Attitude
This Thanksgiving, let's support, celebrate and share the amazing bounty that dedicated farmers like Lee Jones produce — for us, for the land and for the future.
VIDEO: Organic Farming Flourishes in Cuba, but Can It Survive Entry...
While Cuba was forced to build a largely organic farming system out of necessity when the Soviet Union collapsed, what will happen now that the country will enter the U.S. agribusiness?
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Lockdowns for the many, impunity for the few
“I was born in this county. I have never come across ill-feeling like this about anything. Everyone feels it is one law for us and one law for them. That is so unfair.”
If Trump sends the US military into states, it will ignite a peoples’ revolution
Can America and its Democracy withstand the attacks that are being made upon it from forces, not from without, but from within this country? What we desperately need, at this time, is a peoples’ revolution.
American Stonewall: The Cops Have Already Lost
If a politician wants to exercise real leadership, let them proclaim a day of healing where they lead a march of police and protesters together in support of a new era in police relations.
Sixth mass extinction of wildlife accelerating quicker than expected
“Extinction breeds extinctions.”
Sanders calls on democrats to embrace 8-point plan to end police brutality, protect communities
“We have got to act boldly to eradicate systemic racism and police violence. I am calling for sweeping policy reforms to protect people—particularly communities of color—who have suffered violence for far too long.”