Stories by Christopher D. Cook
Christopher D. Cook is the author of "Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us" (New Press).
American agribusiness isn't wasting any time exploiting Iraq's fragile food sector, battered by decades of war and sanctions.
Posted on Mar 14, 2005
The bountiful feast on our holiday tables conceals the growing corporate stranglehold on our food system – and what it's doing to our bodies and the planet.
Posted on Nov 23, 2004
A sweetheart deal between the Bush administration and the factory farm sector allows the industry to delay regulation of potentially toxic air emissions.
Posted on Oct 14, 2004
Providing workers to do the dirtiest, riskiest jobs has become a big business. One national corporation has cornered the market and is squeezing millions from its day-labor temps.
Posted on Oct 11, 2002
Beneath the gilded veneer of dot.com millionaires and a soaring stock market, a class war is brewing. Nearly one-third of America's workers -- about 30 million -- toil in temporary or contract jobs, without benefits or job security. The explosion of temping poses what may be organized labor's greatest challenge since World War II: organizing the swelling ranks of temps, day laborers, contract and leased workers whose perpetual job insecurity forms the porous foundation of today's supposedly stellar economy.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000
