Food

Moyers/Winship: Corporate Greed Is Poisoning America — Literally

By Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / BillMoyers.com

As long as there are insufficient checks and balances on big business and its powerful lobbies, we are at their mercy.

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9 Things You Should Know About the New Farm Bill

By Patty Lovera / Food and Water Watch

How Monsanto Is Using Cronies in Congress to Take Away States' Rights to Label Genetically Modified Foods

By Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Milwaukee Makes Five (Cities So Far): Fast Food Workers Strike for Higher Pay and Union Rights

By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

Big Ag Wins This Round: Supreme Court Backs Monsanto in Ruling

By April M. Short / AlterNet

How Monsanto Is Using Cronies in Congress to Take Away States' Rights to Label Genetically Modified Foods

Big Ag Wins This Round: Supreme Court Backs Monsanto in Ruling

6 Ways Scientific Studies Can Trick You

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Food

Look Out: Corporations Promote ‘Right to Farm’

Margot Ford McMillen / Progressive Populist

6 Ways Scientific Studies Can Trick You

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

7 Dangerous Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine in America

Tom Philpott / Mother Jones

A Handful of Giant Food Companies Are Winning the Fight to Control Your Dinner Plate

Wenonah Hauter / Other Words

Soda Industry Cashes In on Govt. Food Assistance Programs to Tune of $4 Bilion a Year

Stan Cox / AlterNet

Would You Give Up Eating Hamburgers to Stop Climate Change?

David Sirota / AlterNet

Milk Industry Desperation Setting in as America Decides It Doesn't Really Want to Drink It

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Why Is the FDA Still Allowing Arsenic in Chicken and Swine Feed?

Janet Allon / AlterNet

Michael Pollan: Americans Cook Less Than Ever, But Love Watching It on TV -- New Book Takes Food Revolution into the Kitchen

Jill Richardson, Michael Pollan / AlterNet

Why It's Literally Sickening to Ban Whistleblowers from Exposing Cruelty at Factory Farms

Jim Hightower / AlterNet

Resource Shock: How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion

Michael T. Klare / Tom Dispatch

How Monsanto Went From Selling Aspirin to Controlling Our Food Supply

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Biotech's Latest Creation: Franken-Apples Coming to a Store Near You

Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Goldman Prize Awards $150,000 to Six Environmental Leaders

Environment News Service

The Biotech Industry Has Trotted Out a Flimsy Lie to Avoid Labeling the Food We Buy as Genetically Modified

Zack Kaldveer, Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

5 Ways to Get Off the Well-Marketed Path

Christina Ammon / AlterNet

Exposed: Monsanto's Chemical War Against Indigenous Hawaiians

Imani Altemus-Williams / Waging Nonviolence

Undercover Activist Details Secret Filming of Animal Abuse & Why "Ag-Gag" Laws May Force Him to Stop

Amy Goodman, Aaron Mate / Democracy Now!

Want to Get Americans Off Junk Food? Pay Them a Living Wage

Jill Richardson / Other Words

Monsanto's Next Target: Democracy

Ronnie Cummins, Katherine Paul / AlterNet

Gag the Whistleblower: 6 States That Might Criminalize Taping Animal Cruelty

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Why It's So Hard to Get to the Bottom of Links Between Food and Cancer

Scott Thill / AlterNet

Watch: Jon Stewart Scolds Congress for Monsanto Protection Act

AlterNet

The Downside of Expecting America's Agriculture System to Feed the World

Shannon Hayes / Yes! Magazine and TruthDig

Right-Wingers Lying About Food Stamps

Ed Kilgore / The Washington Monthly

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