Exhibit A: The rise of 8-legged frogs. These happen at the end of a long ecological chain that begins with farm runoff from our heavily fertilized agricultural landscapes. Exhibit B: Farm towns in California that can't drink the water because of agricultural run-off. Not surprisingly,...
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On this date in 1892, the People's Party held its first convention in Omaha, Nebraska. Building upon two decades of rural labor's deep dissatisfaction with the Gilded Age, the Populists.
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.
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 spent way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.