Another downer: The school lunch program
This weekend's big news, as Bonnie has already reported, was the massive recall of beef processed by Chino, CA-based Hallmark/Westland
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Bucking the CAFO tax: A plea for conscientious objection
Here's a number to knock you out of that mid-day stupor: every year,
When discrimination is more than OK: Time to call our reps about pesticide policy
Update 4/10: We're hearing from our confidential intel sources on the Hill (OK, an action alert I just received) that the deadline for asking your reps
Smells like a free ride: EPA wants to let CAFOs off on emissions reporting
In an excellent 2000 report titled "The Price We Pay for Corporate Hogs,"
The blame frame, part 2.5: LA Times urges us to miss the point
A while back, I began a series of
Coming home to industrial ag: A tour of the Central Valley
There’s an image that’s stuck with me from the cross-country drive that my dad and I took last summer. It was one of many late-night stints
Keepin’ it natural: Urgent action on meat labels
On a recent trip to the grocery store, a friend of mine living in the Midwest decided to put in a plug for grass-fed beef. They won't supply it if we don't
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Pesticides, like the huddled masses, yearn to be free
The Farm Bill is back. (Admit it -- you'd been missing it.) House and Senate ag staffers have taken to lurking in each other's offices and furrowing their brows over what could be a protracted conflict
PA pulls the plug on rBGH-free label ban
According to Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility's Campaign for Safe Food and the
Winter on a New Hampshire farm
There are some parts of the country where, between late November and sometime around February, you just can't get anything to grow. Call it a lumen lack. During those bleak months, the sun's weak, pasty
Glass half full
The Farm Bill has passed the Senate, and I'm the last one who's going to say it doesn't make me want to cry. But despite some extremely disappointing losses -- including the failure of the Dorgan-Grassley
Subsidy cap is blanched
Parke Wilde's U.S. Food Policy blog has an update on the status of the Dorgan-Grassley amendment,
Urgent: Taking on Big Meat
I've recently learned (thanks to a little birdie from Capitol Hill) that Tyson, Smithfield, and pals are on the rampage this morning, circulating memos and e-mails against two important livestock amendments
The blame frame, part 2: Who wins, and who whines, when corn prices rise
In my last post, I took a lengthy look at the role that farmers play in the livestock production system. In case you didn't
