Food and Farming
You Can Teach Kids Hard Work, But Feed Them First
My brothers and I can support ourselves and our families today because of the food aid we got when we were kids.
Profiting Off Poison
A court found that Monsanto knew its signature Roundup chemical could cause cancer, but sold it anyway.
The Organic Food Industry Thrives on Regulation
Without strict standards, the organic label would become worthless. So why is the White House rolling them back?
What Is Our Land For?
Should we graze it, log it, drill it, and mine it? Or should we preserve it, study it, recreate in it, and revere it?
I’m a Small Farmer from Iowa. Why Does Trump Want to Take My Health Care?
Republicans want to bring back “pre-existing conditions” as a reason to deny you care.
Soon You Can’t Use Food Stamps at Farmers Markets — But That’s Not Half of It
The diets of food stamp recipients lie at the intersection of two issues: our food system and economic inequality.
We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture
We should be supporting the small farmers who sell at farmers markets, not the corporate giants that hurt our health and environment.
A Farm Bill Lost in Never-Never Land
As financial stress rises, suicide hotlines are spreading across farm country. Four straight years of low income, rising debt, and now fights with major trading partners are taking their toll on farmers and rural communities. Worse, Congress seems to be pretending...
Another Counterproductive Assault on Food Stamps
Once again, Republicans are taking aim at poor people. What is it this time? Adding a stricter work requirement to receive what used to be known as food stamps. (Today it's known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but that just doesn't have the same...
A Food Stamp Indignity Worthy of Dickens
Even Charles Dickens, England's masterful satirist of the Victorian upper class, couldn’t have imagined elite rulers using a box of food as a gratuitous way to slap poor people. But Donald Trump and two of his slap-happy cabinet officials did imagine it — and then did...
