Philip Bump has a nice run-down of the important things to look for in the upcoming farm bill/massive subsidization of agribusiness thanks to the incredible power held by rural state senators. One point I would like to bring your attention to is an amendment that would limit meatpackers to owning animals directly for no more […]
Tag: agriculture
Yet another reason why Obama needed to stand up to agribusiness and eliminate child labor on farms. Which of course he did not.
It’s totally absurd to be thinking about who the Democrats will nominate for the presidency in 2016, yet for politically-minded people, it’s almost inevitable. That includes me. I’ve
A couple of interesting Grist pieces on food, both worth commenting so I’ll just combine them. First, as we decimate the world’s large fish stocks in order to satisfy our unquenchable desire for fish, we often hear that eating smaller fish is an answer. But this is pretty unlikely in reality. First, Julia Whitty over […]
And the Obama Administration caves on the child labor rule for farmers I discussed here.
Big agriculture is going to the mat for what really matters–exploiting child labor. Last year, two teenagers handling a large grain auger had their legs severed while working at the Zaloudek Gra
I don’t agree with all of James McWilliams’ attack on localized agriculture, but it is useful correction to the fawning deification of Michael Pollan, backyard chickens, grass-fed beef, etc. All of those things have their very important qualities, but if we are really serious about creating more environmentally-sustainable food without cutting back on meat consumption […]
It looks like this year’s farm bill will be even more atrocious than normal.
“Ketchup is a vegetable” is sounding pretty good right about now: Sarah Seltzer has a good overview of what is in school lunches–pink slime turned into meat. Technically, it is meat
Every election cycle brings back the fetishizing of the increasingly non-existent family farm. When combined with the Republican ardor for bombing brown people who could potentially have weapons of mass destruction, I think it is a public service to remind ourselves of how our family farmers can protect themselves from nuclear attack. From 1965.
California ranchers are unhappy that the federal government wants to replace branding cattle with electronic chips placed in cattle’s ears. The chips make a lot of sense on many levels. It’