OWS has sprung from frustration with the collusion between Big Business and elected officials. And nowhere is that collusion so great as in food and agricultural production.
Given America's enthusiasm for ethanol production, one might assume ethanol is a miracle fuel, sent from heaven to lead the way to independence from oil.
He brought 20 years of experience in organic farming to his government service and he had played a key role in the development of the USDA's organic standards.
Patrick Porgans, Seth Sandronsky, AlterNet. May 27, 2010.
California oil and water policies reap windfall profits for banking institutions, land developers and agribusiness, but are undermining the state's higher education plan.
Ian T. Shearn, The Humane Society of the United States. May 11, 2010.
Millionaire PR operative and lobbyist Richard Berman and his shadowy web of corporate-front organizations rake in the dough by trashing public interest groups.
Lance Williams, Center for Investigative Reporting. December 8, 2009.
Thanks to his generous relationship with Dianne Feinstein, a corporate farmer is successfully crusading against environmental preservation in California.
"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.
