On AlterNet: agribusiness
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "agribusiness"
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. February 11, 2009.
The FDA has quietly revoked a ban on the routine dosing of farm animals with antibiotics.
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.
Geoffrey Lean, Independent UK. May 5, 2008.
Speculators blamed for driving up price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hunger.
Emily Biuso, The Nation. March 10, 2008.
"Today's advocates of multinational power would have us all as banana republics."
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.
Jacob Wheeler, In These Times. December 14, 2007.
Are we really supposed to believe Taco Bell, McDonald's and Monsanto are advocates for health?
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.
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.
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.
Sally Kohn, AlterNet. December 18, 2006.
An E. coli outbreak in China could spell disaster in your own dining room.
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.
