On AlterNet: agribusiness
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "agribusiness"
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.
