Food

How Tractors Are Revolutionizing Agriculture in Chad

By Francois Djékombé / Inter Press Service

The government is turning to mechanization in a bid to close the grain deficit that has developed over the past two years.

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The Most Absurd (and Expensive) Eco-Gadgets

By Jill Richardson / AlterNet

How Mitt Romney and Bain Helped Grow Monsanto Into a Biotech Giant

By Wayne Barrett / Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute

What's Really in Your Greek Yogurt? 5 Surprising Ways Food Companies Cheat and Mislead Consumers

By Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

Outsourcing Abuse: How Farm Workers Are Being Cheated Out of Their Hard-Earned Money

By Tracie McMillan / AlterNet

Yuck: Our Seafood Is Loaded with Unspeakably Gross Pollutants

7 Highly Disturbing Trends in Junk Food Advertising to Children

Good News For Animal Lovers: Factory Farming's Days May Be Numbered

Food

Is Your Fish Safe to Eat? Why Warnings May Not Be Reaching the People Most at Risk

Rae Tyson / Environmental Health News

Is Alzheimers Caused By Too Much Sugar? How the American Diet Is as Bad for Our Brains as Our Bodies

Tom Philpott / Mother Jones

Why Are Some of the Most Popular Organic Brands Trying to Take Down Consumer Labeling Efforts?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Raj Patel: Big Ag Can't Feed the World -- Here's Who Can

Maureen Nandini Mitra / Earth Island Journal

Whoa, Is Organic Food No Healthier Than Non-Organic? Controversy Erupts Over Study

Jason Mark / Earth Island Journal

Peak Water Surpassed as Patagonian Glaciers Melt in a Hurry

Editorial Staff / Daily Climate

The Great Riches of Our Seas Have Been Depleted and Forgotten

George Monbiot / Monbiot.com

What's the Real Driver of High Food Prices and Hunger?

Timothy Wise / Triple Crisis

A Summer of Extremes: Why You Should Get Used to Our Wild Weather

Bill McKibben / Yale Environment 360

Can Antibiotics Make You Gain Weight?

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

Don't Want to Be a Vegetarian? You May Not Have a Choice

John Vidal / The Guardian

A Hard Life in the Fields Starting at Age 7

David Bacon / New American Media

Farmer Debunks Corporate Propaganda Against Proposed Law to Label Genetically Modified Food

Will Allen / AlterNet

5 Weird -- and Terrifying -- Consequences of Climate Change You May Not Know About

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Farming Without Water? Age-Old Techniques Are Making a Comeback

Brie Mazurek / CUESA

Federal Grants Include Money to Greenwash Peripheral Tunnels Plan in California

Dan Bacher / AlterNet

18 Surprising Facts That Will Motivate You to Stop Wasting Food

Kyle Rabin / Ecocentric

Is Microwave Popcorn Making Workers Sick?

Michelle Chen / In These Times

America's 12 Most Obese States (And What the Numbers Don't Tell Us)

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers

Maureen Nandini Mitra / Earth Island Journal

How Ecuador Has Found the Antidote to Rising Food Prices

Sena Christian / Earth Island Journal

How a Corrupt Dietitians' Group Has Taken Over Nutrition Advice in America

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

Lobster Prices Hit Rock Bottom Thanks To Climate Change

Anna Fahey / Sightline Institute

Do You Eat Lunch Alone At Your Desk? Why We Need to Reclaim Our Lunch Break

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Revolutionary Plots

Rebecca Solnit / Orion Magazine

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