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On AlterNet: agribusiness

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "agribusiness"

New Big Ag Push to Fight World Hunger Misses What Organic Ag Is Already Doing

New Big Ag Push to Fight World Hunger Misses What Organic Ag Is Already Doing

Timothy LaSalle, AlterNet. September 29, 2009.
There's no honest assessment of the limits of dead-end chemical agriculture in playing a leading role in actually feeding people.

Michael Pollan: Health Reform Will Make Americans Less Fat

Michael Pollan: Health Reform Will Make Americans Less Fat

Michael Pollan, The New York Times. September 14, 2009.
Look out fast food; when insurance companies can't dump the sick, they will have to strongly support healthy diets, or lose money.

Inflammatory New Book Attacking Local Food Movement Has One Grain of Truth Buried Under Heaps of Manure

Inflammatory New Book Attacking Local Food Movement Has One Grain of Truth Buried Under Heaps of Manure

Kerry Trueman, AlterNet. August 26, 2009.
"Just Food" is framed as the lament of a lapsed locavore who has been driven into the arms of Agribiz by food-mile militants who, according to him, number in the millions.

"When in Doubt, Add Bacon and Cheese": How the Food Industry Hijacked Our Brains and Made Us Fat

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. August 10, 2009.
The food industry has changed American eating habits and helped create the country's No. 1 public-health issue.

Why Unfettered Capitalism Is Bad for Your Diet

Why Unfettered Capitalism Is Bad for Your Diet

Paula Crossfield, Huffington Post. May 25, 2009.
Enforcing the laws that we already have on the books to break up Big Agribusiness would be a great start to building a better food system.

Honeybees Continue to Vanish: Don't Blame Aliens -- It's Our Addiction to Pesticides That's at Fault

Honeybees Continue to Vanish: Don't Blame Aliens -- It's Our Addiction to Pesticides That's at Fault

Evaggelos Vallianatos, TruthOut.org. April 16, 2009.
The chemicals we use in industrial agriculture cause brain damage to the bees, making it often impossible for them to find their way home.

Free Antibiotics -- in U.S. Food and Water

Free Antibiotics -- in U.S. Food and Water

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. February 11, 2009.
The FDA has quietly revoked a ban on the routine dosing of farm animals with antibiotics.

The Role of Agribusiness in Our Food Crisis

The Role of Agribusiness in Our Food Crisis

George Naylor, Irene Lin, AlterNet. August 7, 2008.
Ethanol critics need to be wary before they jump aboard the anti-ethanol campaigns and let off the hook the real bad actors behind our food crisis.

Profiteers Squeeze Billions Out of Growing Global Food Crisis

Profiteers Squeeze Billions Out of Growing Global Food Crisis

Geoffrey Lean, Independent UK. May 5, 2008.
Speculators blamed for driving up price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hunger.

The Banana Kings' Reign of Terror

The Banana Kings' Reign of Terror

Emily Biuso, The Nation. March 10, 2008.
"Today's advocates of multinational power would have us all as banana republics."

Monsanto U: Agribusiness's Takeover of Public Schools

Monsanto U: Agribusiness's Takeover of Public Schools

Nancy Scola, AlterNet. February 15, 2008.
Thanks to Bush's new cuts on public funding for land-grant schools, agribusiness is gaining a huge foothold in the future of our food.

Fast Food and Ag Industry Giants Pretend to Be Healthy

Fast Food and Ag Industry Giants Pretend to Be Healthy

Jacob Wheeler, In These Times. December 14, 2007.
Are we really supposed to believe Taco Bell, McDonald's and Monsanto are advocates for health?

The United States' Failing Food System

The United States' Failing Food System

Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, Jason Mark, PoliPoint Press. October 1, 2007.
An interview with a leading food expert on the crisis of the America food system, the fallacy of labels and the organic vs. local conundrum.

Why U.S. Food Aid Benefits Big Business and Not Starving People

Why U.S. Food Aid Benefits Big Business and Not Starving People

Megan Tady, In These Times. September 18, 2007.
How current policies favor giant shipping companies and agribusinesses over the starving populations they are supposed to serve.

Government Food Safety System a Sham

Government Food Safety System a Sham

Jason Mark, AlterNet. January 25, 2007.
A new federal program for livestock tracking will benefit big corporations, threaten small producers and do nothing to protect consumer health.

Corporate Agribusiness Is Behind Our Deadly Food Supply

Corporate Agribusiness Is Behind Our Deadly Food Supply

Sally Kohn, AlterNet. December 18, 2006.
An E. coli outbreak in China could spell disaster in your own dining room.

Corporations Control Your Dinner

Corporations Control Your Dinner

Debra Eschmeyer, National Family Farm Coalition. December 5, 2006.
When the food industry becomes a monopoly marketplace, it doesn't just affect the local farmer. It affects you. Lack of competition drives prices up and consumer choices down.