| Nov 22, 2010 | Food / FarmingMost Americans view cheap meat as a good thing, but they generally don’t understand who pays the high cost of the policies making it inexpensive. More than 80 percent of the beef, pork and poultry consumed in this country comes from livestock fed and processed...
| Nov 15, 2010 | Food / FarmingThis Thanksgiving, most farmers around my hometown in central Minnesota are celebrating a good harvest. Rain–for once–fell at the right time in the right amounts, and prices for many crops grown in Litchfield are high. After yo-yoing up and down for the...
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| Nov 1, 2010 | Food / FarmingSome of America’s worst-paid and least-protected workers have scored agreements with two of the nation’s largest tomato growers after a 15 year labor dispute. They even got a long-overdue apology. “In a free society, few are guilty, but all are...
| Oct 25, 2010 | Food / FarmingThe big brand-name corporations love advertising. They love it so much that they spend some $170 billion a year in our country to put all sorts of slicken and hokum on their products, and on their own public image. But there is one kind of advertising that these...
| Oct 18, 2010 | Food / Farming|RoundupHere’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package. This week, Andrew Korfhage calls on Congress to get chocolate companies to stop using suppliers that rely on enslaved child labor. And Jim Hightower explains that despite our...
