Slow Food for Thought
Eric Schlosser : Food & Nutrition
Affluent foodies embrace sustainable agriculture, oblivious that ordinary people--especially the poor--don't have a seat at the table.
2008
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Got Milk? Get Investigated
David E. Gumpert : Civil Rights & Liberties
State and federal authorities are relying on undercover agents to entrap dairy farmers.
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Manufacturing a Food Crisis
Walden Bello : Globalization
How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture--and who's fighting back.
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Milk Wars
David E. Gumpert : Food & Nutrition
As struggling dairy farmers seek profits by responding to rising consumer demand for raw milk, regulators are taking a hard line.
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Banana Kings
Emily Biuso : Non-Fiction
The history of banana cultivation is rife with labor and environmental abuse, corporate skulduggery and genetic experiments gone awry.
2007
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USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program
David E. Gumpert & William Pentland : Food & Nutrition
A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.
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Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Wages & Hours
The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
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Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing
There is an alternative to unhealthy eating and irresponsible development schemes.
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Confronting the Global Timber Barons
From a church in a rugged rural parish in Honduras, Father Andres Tamayo leads a grassroots movement to protect dwindling timberlands. Bills introduced in the US Congress might help save the forests.
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Old McDonald Had a Farm...and He Got Arrested?
David E. Gumpert : Food & Nutrition
As consumers increasingly seek out farmers who raise organic and unpasteurized food, suddenly energized regulators claim they want to "protect" us from pathogens and other dangers. What gives?
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Farm Aid Raises a Vision
What began as an attempt to help financially strapped farmers in the Reagan years has grown into a visionary political and social movement rooted in the agrarian values of the American Revolution.
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The Hundred-Mile Diet
Christopher Ketcham : Global Warming & Climate Change
A new way to fight global warming and corporate agriculture: Eat only locally grown food, and call yourself a localvore.
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Farm Bill Showdown
As he shapes the Senate farm bill, Tom Harkin should heed progressives and forge legislation that ends subsidies and gives a fair shake to family farmers.
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Learning to Love the Farm Bill
Matthew Blake : Food & Nutrition
The bipartisan farm bill making its way through Congress offers real hope to feed the hungry at home and abroad and improve nutrition for poor kids. But it faces a likely presidential veto over, you guessed it, taxes.
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Gardening for Change in the City
Sophie Johnson : Food & Nutrition
Local food projects and community gardens are springing up in urban areas all over the country, cutting a promising new path to empowering the poor.
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Lady With a Lawnmower
She cuts her lawn slowly with a push mower. I save time, hiring men to run machines, burn gas, kill the ozone. Who's the wiser?
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Eco-Injustice in Paraguay
Jessica Weisberg & Benjamin Brown : Environment
A child dies after being enveloped by toxic pesticides on a soybean mega-farm, and two landowners are found guilty of homicide. Four years later, they still haven't paid the price for the crime.
2006
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Draining the Gene Pool
Lisa M. Hamilton : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
A plant gene that could protect organic crops from contamination from genetically engineered seeds is out of reach to most organic farmers, thanks to an agribusiness patent.
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Black Farms, Black Markets
Habiba Alcindor : African-Americans
For black farmers, succeeding financially and bringing healthy food to urban markets remains an uphill battle against a lack of business contacts.
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Mean or Green?
Liza Featherstone : Food & Nutrition
Wal-Mart is serious about bringing organic food to the masses, but transportation costs and the retail giant's aggressive competitive ways could end up hurting small farms and the environment.
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Hard Labor
Felicia Mello : Labor Organizing & Activism
The organic label means your food is pesticide-free, but an investigation into California farms reveals that the label means nothing but pain for the workers who produced it.
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One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum
Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, Troy Duster, Elizabeth Ransom, Winona LaDuke, Peter Singer, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Carlo Petrini, Eliot Coleman & Jim Hightower : Food & Nutrition
How do we fix our dysfunctional relationship with food? Alice Waters leads a forum with Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Peter Singer and others, who suggest, for starters, that we stop buying factory farm products, get involved in farm policy and outlaw the marketing of junk food to kids.
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Food for Thought
Our Readers : Food & Nutrition
Letters from around the country describe your favorite food institutions.
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Saving Small Farmers
Marcy Kaptur : State of the Union
Give small farmers and ranchers help to compete with global agricultural giants; enact farmer-friendly solutions to existing destructive trade policies.
2005
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Losing Ground
Habiba Alcindor : African-Americans
Black farmers and the agrarian culture they embody are rapidly disappearing.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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