Food

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

By Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Sources report that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach amendments to the Farm Bill that would preempt or prohibit states from requiring labels on GE foods.

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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

Look Out: Corporations Promote ‘Right to Farm’

By Margot Ford McMillen / Progressive Populist

6 Ways Scientific Studies Can Trick You

By Jill Richardson / 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

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

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

Walmart's Death Grip on Groceries Is Making Life Worse for Millions of People (Hard Times USA)

Stacy Mitchell / AlterNet

10 Things Coffee Does to Your Body

Robert T. Gonzalez / i09

Is the Popular 'Paleo Diet' a Bunch of Baloney?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

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