Tag: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Overhaul the USDA
For decades, the agriculture department has been indifferent to struggling rural communities. That has to change.
Trump administration rejects scientists’ advice on nutrition, maintaining guidelines for sugar...
This "will impact eating habits, school lunch menus, and food stamp policies," and will lead to "poor health" for Americans.
US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services becomes multi million-dollar federal wildlife-killing...
"The Department of Agriculture needs to get out of the wildlife-slaughter business."
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Personal interview: Abby Martin what are the prospects for peace?
Abby Martin is an American journalist, TV presenter and activist who continues her work opposing imperialism and promoting peace, as an independent filmmaker and journalist.
Despite cutbacks, ExxonMobil continues to fund climate science denial
ExxonMobil has spent more than $39 million to manufacture doubt about climate science.
‘Bottom line,’ says Bernie Sanders, deal must include Medicare expansion, lower drug prices
"Congress must finally have the courage to stand up to the greed of Big Pharma."
Bogus “rugged individualism” corrodes our social fabric, fueling violent protest & pandemic mayhem
Either “rugged individualism” is exposed as a mistaken, scam mythology, disrupting and exploiting what’s good for the many -- or we face something closer to “rugged extinction.”
Young climate activists have far more power than they realize
This story is part of The Conversation’s coverage on COP26, the Glasgow climate conference, by experts from around the world.