Tag: agriculture
From farm to table, women in the US food system are...
The U.S. food sector depends heavily on immigrant labor and is also the lowest-paid and most exploited one in the nation.
Women get a voice in conventional agriculture
HarvestHER seeks to recognize the important role that females have played in the male-dominated harvesting industry and establish a community for well-being.
Standing Rock medic bus is now a traveling decolonized pharmacy
These Native herbalists are doing more than just healing sore muscles.
Why care about undocumented immigrants? For one thing, they’ve become vital...
These workers play vital roles in the U.S. economy, erecting American buildings, picking American apples and grapes, and taking care of American babies. Oh, and paying American taxes.
House passes farm bill – ‘rewards mega-agribusinesses and Wall Street,’ not...
"The GOP Farm Bill is a disaster for people and the planet."
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."
European Commission gives green light to Bayer-Monsanto merger
"The coming together of these two is a marriage made in hell – bad for farmers, bad for consumers, and bad for our countryside."
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?
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Trump boat bombings draw murder accusations from Amnesty and lawmakers
A widening human rights crisis emerges as new disclosures reveal orders to kill shipwrecked survivors.
The ‘perfect’ Equal Opportunity Oppressor – Don the Con pulls off the impossible: ‘grievances...
Right or left, east or west, small-town/rural or city dwellers, blue collar or middle-class, who knows anyone (but the affluent) not paying through the teeth for the insufferable Trump Clown Show?
Supreme Court takes up Trump attack on birthright citizenship
A clash over the 14th amendment heads to the justices with consequences for millions of families.
The Trump Corollary
U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro.
Clinton blames young people and social media for opposition to Gaza genocide
A speech at a far right Israeli publication’s summit sparks criticism over claims that youth are misinformed rather than responding to documented atrocities.