Tag: food
The problem with ‘humanely raised’ poultry and eggs
Chicken producers are misleading consumers with misinformation.
To restore nature, we must invest more in our children
Understanding the connection between women’s and children’s rights, family planning, and the environmental crisis.
Big Food raking in huge profits from price hikes as US...
"It's time Congress do more to rein in corporate greed, one of the main factors currently driving up costs for families."
How a tribal rights lawyer is winning back the rights of...
Attorney Frank Bibeau found a way to legally protect nature by suing the state of Minnesota in the name of manoomin, or wild rice, sacred to the Ojibwe people.
How leaders in the Department of Labor are fighting for workers’...
“We have an opportunity right now to buy American and build America like never before.”
Empty tables
Food is certainly plentiful in the United States. And yet enough of it never reaches the tables of those who struggle to make ends meet.
A realistic ‘energy transition’ is to get better at using less...
Being an early adopter of solar technology has given me personal insight into some of the practical limitations and difficulties of the energy transition.
There’s no such thing as ‘humane slaughter’ of livestock—federal records prove...
We know that “humane slaughter” is an oxymoron.
The meat industry has created a false dichotomy that pits people...
Factory farms are harmful to animals, the environment, local communities, and public health. We need a more logical and just food system.
Across Africa, water conflict threatens security, health, and the environment
The scarcity-led conflict and crisis.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.