Tara Lohan, AlterNet. November 21, 2009. Vegetarians aren't the only ones who should be concerned; there's soy in just about everything you eat these days -- including hamburgers, mac 'n cheese and salad dressing.
Joya Parsons, Every Kitchen Table. October 7, 2009. Corporations have been given the power to own seeds. And they are eliminating competing varieties and crowning their own patented seeds as the only choice in the marketplace.
Meg White, BuzzFlash. September 8, 2009. Monsanto and the U.S. government are dealing with unanticipated hazards of the pesticide Roundup in the South American drug war.
Vanessa Barrington, EcoSalon. August 24, 2009. With growing numbers of food-conscious consumers, big corporations are trying to sully the reputation of alternatives to their style of agriculture.
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.
Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. April 6, 2009. There's been a lot of hype about a few new food bills. And while most of it is conspiracy theory there are some reasons to be alarmed.
Jill Richardson, AlterNet. October 7, 2008. A bunch of multinationals have figured out how to make their pollution-based businesses seem like the solution to the climate crisis.
Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime Reporter. May 8, 2008. Derry Brownfield was a veteran of farm radio reports, until he went after Big Ag and its Mafia.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. March 6, 2008. Monsanto doesn't want consumers to know the truth about the milk they're drinking. The corporation's monopoly is at stake.
Nancy Scola, AlterNet. February 15, 2008. Thanks to Bush's new cuts on public funding for land-grant schools, agribusiness is gaining a huge foothold in the future of our food.
Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report. June 4, 2007. Corporate foundations that have pledged millions believe that genetically altered crops will rescue Africa from endemic shortfalls in food production. Are they creating a 'green revolution' or hijacking the food supply?