By Lizzie Bennett Do a search for images of malnutrition on any search engine and you will most likely come up with pictures of wide-eyed, big-bellied babies from some part of the developing world. Rarely will you see a child from California, Sydney or London…
By Wenonah Hauter In addition to advising on all three mega-mergers, Credit Suisse is playing a big role behind the scenes of the Dakota Access pipeline. You probably learned in high school that monopolies are bad for consumers; they eliminate the field of competition in the…
By Brianna Acuesta The We Over Me Farm has completely transformed the community. When President Michael J. Sorell took over at Paul Quinn College, a private, historically black college in Texas, the school was just barely getting by. Sorell knew he needed to make some…
By Local.Org Here is a list of 10 things Americans should have been doing to strengthen their communities and empower themselves sociopolitically, economically, and technologically over the past 2 years instead of having obsessed over the ultimately irrelevant process known as Election 2016. It is…
By Amanda Froelich Not only do plants make urban environments more appealing, they also provide CO2 and, according to some studies, help reduce the stress people experience. For this reason, one might imagine that modern cities would be overflowing with green flora, but this is…
By Chris “Kikila” Perrin Over what has been called “a food desert,” rain clouds are gathering, and with them comes much needed access to what very well might be affordable, healthy sustenance. South Bronx, New York, home to no farms and no agricultural production whatsoever,…
By Alex Pietrowski Most of the truly important news of our times goes unnoticed, under-reported or ignored by the corporate media, and as they focus on the ever-evolving narrative of human political drama, we are missing opportunities to participate in the most important struggles of…
By Brandon Turbeville The 31st Farm Aid benefit concert opened with a press conference made up of individuals from a number of different areas. Notably, the performers – Willie Nelson, Sturgill Simpson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Lukas Nelson, Jamey Johnson, John Mellencamp – joined farmers,…
By Christina Sarich An illegal pesticide prone to drift has contaminated Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soy and cotton farms across ten states. Pesticide drift from Dicamba has hurt many thousands of crops along America’s farm belt already. Larry Steckel, University of Tennessee weed specialist, says, What’s…
In one way or another, all of us shop for food. Whether it’s online, via subscription meal services, at restaurants, or at the grocery store, we have a lot of decisions about the food we buy and eat. The labels that accompany each food item…
By Christina Sarich Italy just put massive restrictions on the use of Monsanto’s probably carcinogenic herbicide, Roundup, just as studies suggesting it is more toxic than previously assumed come under public scrutiny. Italy’s Ministry of Health has banned the spraying of the main ingredient in…
By Amando Flavio Food wasting has become a serious problem especially in Western countries. It is estimated that about 1.3 billion metric tonnes of food is wasted around the world every year. In the United Kingdom alone, food waste costs about £12.5 billion annually. Apart…
By Justin Gardner The demand for real, local food is growing as more people become aware that agribusiness corporations such as Monsanto, along with lobbying groups like the Grocery Manufacturers Association, have a frightening grip on the nation’s food system. “Big Food” would rather everyone…
By Vandita In a country where Monsanto has control over 95% of cotton seed, and where the most hated bio-tech company of the century has caused a massive 291,000 suicides with its poisonous pesticides and fertilizers, GMOs and extortionist business practices, a tiny Himalayan state…
By Brianna Acuesta Many neighborhoods filled with diverse groups of people have what is lovingly referred to as a “tamale lady”, a kind woman who makes homemade tamales and goes to the doors of their neighbors to sell them. This tamale lady is a beloved reminder of…
By Alex Pietrowski In 1948 Michigan became the first state to require all milk sold to consumers to first be pasteurized, thus beginning the war on raw milk. The national effort to prevent people from obtaining raw milk has become so absurd that state and local…
By Brandon Turbeville Demonstrating yet again how the Western world is the guiding light of democracy and freedom, Australian officials have charged Marilyn Bodnar, a 60-year-old naturopath, with “recklessly causing grievous bodily harm and aiding or abetting failure to provide necessities of life to a…
By Chris “Kikila” Perrin Feeding people isn’t always just about calories. To one Washington, D.C., food bank, at least, a calorie isn’t always a calorie, and some can do more harm than good. Starting September 1 of this year, the Capital Area Food Bank will…
By Amanda Froelich The fast food chain intends to source chicken raised without medically important antibiotics by 2017 and is considering doing the same with pork and beef. You know the world is changing when fast food restaurants commit to improving the quality of the…
By Brianna Acuesta All 17 of these items found in food products are banned in other developed nations, but Americans keep eating them because they don’t know the health risks. If major foods are banned in other developed nations because of serious health risks, why…
