A ‘Locally Grown’ Thanksgiving
“Locally grown” is developing the cachet of wholesomeness that “organically grown” once carried. Harry Truman said: “No man should be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” The problem with … Read more
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We’re Talking About Power
What power do people really have if we can’t even control what’s in our dinner and where it comes from? In 1971, Susan DeMarco, Susan Sechler and I … Read more
Manufactured Meat
This is not hamburgers versus veggie burgers, both of which are from nature. Rather it’s meat versus manufactured meat, or faux meat. Who needs farms and ranches when … Read more
Who Cares Who the Secretary of Agriculture Is?
The job of secretary of agriculture in the past has first and foremost been to keep moneyed interests in charge. Years ago, Robert Kennedy noted that making economic, … Read more
Change Is Coming
Family farmers have coalesced with other political outsiders to put forth a complete overhaul of industrial agribusiness: Indeed, finally, change is coming. As we hurtle into the 2020s, … Read more
Up Against Monopoly Markets
Most of today’s farm commodities are sold into monopoly markets, controlled by fewer and fewer multinational corporations. Farm Aid, the top-notch group of researchers and advocates who’ve tracked … Read more
Facing the Fates: Farmers in Crisis
Farmers in crisis: Endangered by unrestrained monopolists, Trump’s trade war tantrums, the ravages of climate change and a cabal of Wall Street and Silicon Valley profiteers intent on … Read more
Corporations Are Playing with Our Food — and with Our Heads
Food fabricators of industrial agriculture are using Recombinetics to mess with our food and the very DNA of Mother Nature. From kitchen tables worldwide, you can hear a … Read more
Thanksgiving and the AgriCULTURE Attitude
Thanksgiving — let’s eat! America’s most food-focused holiday, Thanksgiving, traces its roots back to the abundant feast that Pilgrims and Native Americans enjoyed together in the fall of 1621. … Read more
Wall Street Plowboys Buying Up Farms
Of course, these modern day slavers don’t soil their own soft hands on their farms. John Steinbeck’s novel “Grapes of Wrath.” Woody Guthrie’s ballad “Deportee.” Edward R. Murrow’s … Read more
