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Animal behavior: Crackdowns on meatpacking workers give new meaning to ‘inhumane’

By Elanor • on July 14, 2008

Mainstream media and many of the blogs covered the raid of the Agriprocessors, Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville, IA when it took place back in May. It was the largest immigration raid of a single site by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) in history:

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Déjà chew: The food price crisis in context

By Guest • on May 20, 2008

We are pleased to be able to share this piece by Daryll E. Ray, who holds the Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy at the University of Tennessee and directs UT’s Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC). He is perhaps best known for lead-authoring “Rethinking

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Finding common grounds: a review of “Black Gold”

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on January 7, 2008

How many cups of coffee do you drink during the day? Now, how many cups of coffee would you guess are consumed every day throughout the world? Not being a hard-core coffee drinker myself – one cup will usually satisfy me, if I even need that – I hadn't given the global coffee trade a whole

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