Maria Armoudian, Ankine Aghassian, AlterNet. May 15, 2008. The world renown activist reminds people that corporation-friendly economic schemes got us into this mess in the first place.
Mira Kamdar, OneWorld.net. May 15, 2008. At the heart of the story is pesticide poisoning, water shortages, soil salinity, fertilizer runoff, skyrocketing cancer rates and farmer suicides.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. May 15, 2008. As both obesity and hunger are on the rise, a new book shows why we shouldn't feel guilty about our food choices but angry with a corrupt food system.
Ann Vileisis, Island Press. May 14, 2008. A new book explores how we got into the modern situation where we know so little about what we eat and yet regard it as entirely normal.
Claire Hope Cummings, Beacon Press. May 2, 2008. Taking a technological approach to agriculture has put the future of the world's food supply in jeopardy.
BoRev, BoRev AlterNet: PEEK. May 1, 2008. Castro and Chavez were right, the Hertitage Foundation was wrong. Ethanol is having a negative impact on world food supply.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. April 30, 2008. In the wake of the housing crash and rising food and energy prices, Americans are pawning their clothes, furniture and more.
Mariana Ruiz Firmat, make/shift. April 28, 2008. If we want to foster healthy communities, we need to make connections between reproductive health, environmental toxins, and the food we eat.
Deborah Rich, Earth Island Journal. April 23, 2008. The U.S. government's food policy suggests an apple is an apple, regardless of how it was grown. Scientific data suggests otherwise.
Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor. April 17, 2008. As the deadline looms, lawmakers make a last-ditch effort to resolve funding and policy disputes.
Roger Doiron, AlterNet. April 11, 2008. We give tax breaks to encourage people to put solar panels on their roofs, so why not offer incentives for healthy food production in their backyards?
Fritz Haeg, Metropolis Books. April 4, 2008. Why do we dedicate so much property to something that requires precious resources, endless hours and contaminates our air and water?
Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor. April 2, 2008. It's becoming clear now that climate change may be altering the way people and governments think about water.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. February 20, 2008. Pollan's new book, In Defense of Food, is a scathing indictment of the food industry and a call for a return to unprocessed food.
Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. February 19, 2008. The idea that liberated women don't prepare food -- because they are too busy having sex and building their careers -- is just plain wrong.
Kerry Trueman, Huffington Post. February 14, 2008. We may find the idea of insects as livestock disgusting, but could a bug farm possibly be any more foul than our fetid feedlots?
Peter Ford, Christian Science Monitor. January 7, 2008. Corn, milk, bread, and other farm products hit record high prices in 2006 and will likely keep rising in 2008.
