Food

How Climate Change Is Worsened by Attacks on the Public Sector, Science and Regulation

By Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh / Democracy Now!

What's missing from today's discussions is not just the words "climate change," but the words "public sector."

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Detroit as a Food Desert -- Another Urban Myth

By Jay Walljasper / Citiwire

It's a Safe Health-Food Wonder, Agricultural Dream and Economic Jackpot: It's Time to End our Government's Insane Hemp Prohibition

By Jill Richardson / AlterNet

As Farms Bite the Dust, "Megadrought" May Be the New Normal in the Southwest

By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

How Monsanto Is Sabotaging Efforts to Label Genetically Modified Food

By Charlotte Silver / Inter Press Service

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

System Failure: We Are Approaching the End of Society As We Know It -- And That May Be a Good Thing

Terrence McNally / AlterNet

Big Food's Latest Ploy to Get Richer While Making Americans Fatter

David Sirota / Salon

The History of Supersizing: How We've Become a Nation Hooked on Bigger Is Better

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Why Are Twinkies Cheaper Than Carrots?

John Robbins / Huffington Post

5 Grotesque Fast Food Products Americans Scarf Down in Their Cars

Tom Philpott / Mother Jones

3 Reasons Your Diet Isn't Working and How to Do It Better

Kathy Freston / AlterNet

Are Corporations and Big Banks Making a Windfall From Food Stamps?

Christopher D. Cook, Michele Simon / AlterNet

Not for Sale: Why We Can't Save the Planet By Putting a Price on Nature

Tom B.K. Goldtooth / Global Exchange

Water Too Dangerous to Drink: What Life's Like in California's Farming Communities

Liza Gross / Environmental Health News

Better Than Sugar? The Truth About 6 Alternative Natural Sweeteners

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

The Surprising Effect of Agriculture on Rising Sea Levels

Shiney Varghese / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

What's Really in Your Expensive Steak? You'd Be Surprised

Jim Hightower / AlterNet

Monsanto Vs Nature: The Weeds Fight Back

Jim Hightower / Other Words

Health Dangers in Your Hose: Are You Watering Your Garden With Endocrine Disruptors and Toxic Chemicals?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

8 Surprising Things That May Be Making Americans Fat

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Meet the Corporate Front Groups Fighting to Make Sure You Can't Know What's in Your Food

Ronnie Cummins, Alexis Baden-Mayer / AlterNet

5 Reasons the 'Geezer Empire' of Billionaire Republicans Are Showering Romney With Cash

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

90 Percent of People Want Labeling on Engineered Food, But We Still Don't Have it: Why Is that?

Dave Murphy / AlterNet

Global CO2 Emissions Hit New Record in 2011, Keeping World on Track for 'Devastating' 11°F Warming

Joe Romm / Climate Progress

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

Beatrice Marovich / Religion Dispatches

Working With Your Rapist as Your Supervisor? The Widespread Sexual Abuse of Women in Farm Work

Michelle Chen / AlterNet

The "POM" Pomegranate Scam: The Truth Behind the Company and Its Billionaire Owners

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, PepsiCo and Others

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Goodbye Fish and Shellfish? Meet the Biggest Threat to Our Oceans

Brita Belli / E Magazine

Addiction and America's Fat Problem

Susan Cheever / The Fix

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