Even though it took economic collapse to wake the American people up to the vast harms caused by unchecked corporate power, farmers have known this for decades.
From Maine to California, regulators are trying to push laws meant for mega-dairies and agribusiness on small farmers, but the farmers have another idea.
Rich Bindell, Food & Water Watch. November 23, 2011.
We need a better Farm Bill to break up the powerful monopolies in the food system so that small and medium producers have a fair chance in the marketplace.
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.
Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media. September 7, 2011.
Methyl bromide is a chemical known to cause reproductive harm and can cause blurred or double vision, slurred speech, dizziness, vomiting and abdominal pain.
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 19, 2011.
As population rates skyrocket, millions of mouths to feed increase pressure on the world's farmers to squeeze more and more food from less and less arable land.
The agricultural county exports 99 percent of what is grown there while 95 percent of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the county are shipped in from elsewhere.
Industrial ag is admitting that it needs to trash its neighbors and the surrounding landscape to thrive. And it wants us to believe that there are no alternatives.
The Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, which represents virtually all the tomato farmers in the state, has signed on to the important Fair Food Principles.
