Greg Kaufmann : Animal Rights
While the Obama Administration has taken steps to strengthen enforcement of humane handling and food safety laws, the verdict is still out on whether the USDA has the will to make the changes necessary for a safe and humane food system.
In the dry Sahel, farmers are already adapting to climate change.
Michael Pollan : Food & Nutrition
Today's conversation about food was started by dot-connecting writers like Berry in the 1970s.
Nation Forum: The underlying vision isn't capitalist or socialist but something humane, local and accountable.
Drop the scary Bush lingo and start creating resilient communities than can effectively recover from disaster in this age of financial and climate chaos.
Eric Schlosser : Food & Nutrition
Affluent foodies embrace sustainable agriculture, oblivious that ordinary people--especially the poor--don't have a seat at the table.
David E. Gumpert : Civil Rights & Liberties
State and federal authorities are relying on undercover agents to entrap dairy farmers.
How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture--and who's fighting back.
David E. Gumpert : Food & Nutrition
As struggling dairy farmers seek profits by responding to rising consumer demand for raw milk, regulators are taking a hard line.
The history of banana cultivation is rife with labor and environmental abuse, corporate skulduggery and genetic experiments gone awry.
David E. Gumpert & William Pentland : Food & Nutrition
A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Wages & Hours
The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
There is an alternative to unhealthy eating and irresponsible development schemes.
From a church in a rugged rural parish in Honduras, Father Andres Tamayo leads a grassroots movement to protect dwindling timberlands. Bills introduced in the US Congress might help save the forests.
David E. Gumpert : Food & Nutrition
As consumers increasingly seek out farmers who raise organic and unpasteurized food, suddenly energized regulators claim they want to "protect" us from pathogens and other dangers. What gives?
What began as an attempt to help financially strapped farmers in the Reagan years has grown into a visionary political and social movement rooted in the agrarian values of the American Revolution.
Christopher Ketcham : Global Warming & Climate Change
A new way to fight global warming and corporate agriculture: Eat only locally grown food, and call yourself a localvore.
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