Tag: farming
Paying farmers fairly could curb climate change and hunger
Parity is at the core of agriculture’s potential to address overproduction.
Federal court rules EPA must make final decision on potential ban...
"We'll find out in three months if the Trump EPA remains under the tight control of the chemical agriculture industry, or if Administrator Wheeler will finally take his job seriously and ban this brain-damaging pesticide."
The FDA should protect consumers, not a dying dairy industry
The dairy industry wants to restrict plant-based companies from using terms like “milk” on their labels.
As national elections draw closer, millions of farmers facing economic despair...
As India’s agrarian crisis deepens, so too will the social unrest, which may force future elected officials to take action on the growing demands of India’s powerful rural populace.
EPA grants bee-killing pesticide ’emergency’ approval; a ‘routine abuse of emergency...
"The EPA is routinely misusing the 'emergency' process to get sulfoxaflor approved because it's too toxic to make it through normal pesticide reviews."
They rescued pigs and turkeys from factory farms – and now...
It’s an alarming example of the power of the animal agriculture industry, the confluence of interests between industry and law enforcement, and the appalling treatment of animals in industrial agricultural production.
A new economic model for the South: Ditch corporate welfare and...
“With modest increases in public investment in technical support and start-up capital … cooperatives could greatly expand into new markets, employ significant numbers of people, and contribute healthier food to their communities.”
In the race to achieve zero hunger and mitigate climate change,...
"In the race to beat food insecurity, achieve zero hunger, and address climate change, we must pay attention to the soil."
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.
5 people died from eating lettuce, but Trump’s FDA still won’t...
The FDA’s lack of urgency dumbfounds food safety scientists.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.