Beau Friedlander, Air America Media AlterNet: PEEK. June 26, 2009. While the bill is weak medicine for a very sick planet, it’s a whole lot better than taking the poor orb behind the Milky Way and shooting it.
Lisa M. Hamilton, Counterpoint Press. June 8, 2009. A 10th-generation rancher in New Mexico shows how to restore the environment, agriculture and ranching communities.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. May 20, 2009. Vandana Shiva says industrial agriculture has left Indian farmers indebted and destitute, and explains how to stem the tide of suicides.
Vandana Shiva, Huffington Post. May 18, 2009. The factors that have caused 200,000 suicides are rooted in the policies of trade liberalization and corporate globalization.
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.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. September 19, 2007. A new animal-tracking system could put Big Brother in your backyard -- even if you're not a farmer.
Lisa M. Hamilton, AlterNet. May 25, 2007. From the news these days you'd think farmers have never had a better friend than ethanol. But if you actually are a farmer, ethanol, with the high corn prices it brings, is looking less and less like a blessing -- and more like a curse.
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.
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.
Jason Mark, Grist.org. November 29, 2006. Facing growing competition from cotton growers overseas, the American cotton industry is shrinking but still using inefficient and ecologically unsustainable techniques for harvest and distribution.
