An opinion piece in the journal Nature suggests ways the government could regulate added sugar, including a sugar tax, distribution controls and age limits.
Amy Goodman, Raj Patel, Democracy Now!. January 23, 2012.
Amy Goodman and Raj Patel discuss the 49 million people who are struggling to get enough to eat in America, and why GOP candidates' posturing isn't helping.
Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. December 19, 2011.
This isn't the policy cure-all for obesity (or even the best way to curb it). But if politicians are determined to create some kind of fat tax, this would be the way to do it.
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.
