Tag: Big Ag
Big agriculture’s dangerous role in spreading the next pandemic
Bird flu spreads through industrial farms while U.S. leaders prioritize big agriculture over public health.
‘Break up Big Ag,’ says Sanders after egg giant posts 718%...
Sanders joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Katie Porter, and others in questioning Cal-Maine Foods' claim that an avian flu outbreak is to blame for soaring egg prices.
Pesticide industry ‘helped write’ disinformation playbook used by Big Oil and...
New analysis sheds light on key tactics Monsanto used to distort science and spin the narrative in defense of its herbicide product.
Why food prices are rising even more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuvKoe9Ilvo
Monopolies are slowly killing rural America — and driving up the price you pay for food.
Big ag influence over UN Food Systems Summit criticized by green...
Industry-backed solutions and net zero targets are insufficient to slash agriculture’s emissions, some experts warn.
How to solve the big problems that small family farms are...
Direct sales and the organic label are not enough to keep family-scale farms viable.
2020 Democratic presidential candidates want to break up big agriculture monopolies
The trend of consolidation in agribusiness is wiping out small farmers and influencing the food choices made to consumers.
When will we start applying the precautionary principle to the chemicals...
Agencies consistently place a far higher value on corporate profits than they do on the children of the world.
We must tame Big Ag to tame climate change
Our response to climate change should not be separated from those who work the land, and the soil.
New investigation pins Koch brothers to ‘anti-transit canvassing campaigns’
While the development of public transit is seen by many as "positive for both impoverished communities and the environment," it hurts the Koch brothers' bottom line.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.