Food and Farming
Water Is Life. Can We Protect It?
Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed. They can learn a lot from El Salvador.
The Fraught Politics of Wolf Hunting
In Wisconsin, a wolf hunt gone wrong offers a lesson about the failures of our national politics, too.
We Need Democracy, Not Billionaire Philanthropy
Instead of funding only the projects that a single billionaire esteems worthy, democracy demands something different: input.
Smithfield’s Pork PR Scam
The factory farm giant can’t call itself “sustainable” while polluting water, spraying manure, and getting into the natural gas business.
Overhaul the USDA
For decades, the agriculture department has been indifferent to struggling rural communities. That has to change.
Planet Plastic
The vast tonnage of this trash increases every minute, with an afterlife lasting centuries.
Learning the Lessons of the Latino Vote
Georgia will determine control of the Senate. The votes of Latinos, who have suffered badly during the pandemic, could be decisive.
This Holiday Season, Choose a New Food Future
What better symbol of agri-industry’s vision of “food” than the ubiquitous Butterball turkey so many ate for Thanksgiving?
Make USDA ‘The People’s Department’ Again
For years, the Department of Agriculture has been run by Big Ag acolytes. Biden has a chance to change that.
The First Thanksgiving?
Wherever it began, and whatever the purists claim is “official,” Thanksgiving today is as multicultural as America.
