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.
As the world faces the uphill battle of feeding its people in the coming years, neoliberalism and globalization add insult to injury in the Philippines.
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.
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.
The simple act of sitting down together to eat real food on a regular basis can jumpstart the kind of lively discussions that get people engaged on the issues of the day.
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.
U.S. farm subsidies continue to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to people who don't live anywhere near a farm and whose daily lives have nothing to do with farming.
