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2011 News Stories
- 12/30/11 - Will the Butterball Raid Yield Any Real Results?
- 12/30/11 - Can the 2012 Farm Bill Protect the Ogallala Aquifer?
- 12/29/11 - FDA Draws Criticism After U-turn on Antibiotics in Animal Feed
- 12/29/11 - Genetically Engineered Bt Corn Losing Effectiveness
- 12/28/11 - The Bad Food News of 2011
- 12/28/11 - Burger Chains Ditch "Pink Slime," then Whine
- 12/27/11 - Indiana Sheriff Intervenes Against Feds in Raw Milk Case
- 12/21/11 - Oh, SNAP! Grow Gardens with Food Stamps
- 12/21/11 - Tell the EPA to Ban Glyphosate!
- 12/20/11 - FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
- 12/20/11 - Willie Nelson: Occupy the Food System
- 12/19/11 - FDA Escalates War Against Amish Dairy Farmers
- 12/16/11 - Video: Farmers March with Occupy Wall Street, Sowing the Seeds of Hope and Democracy
- 12/15/11 - Whippersnappers Unite: Young Farmers Work to Change 2012 Farm Bill
- 12/14/11 - Stop USDA's Plans for Monsanto to Police Itself!
- 12/14/11 - Tell Ag Secretary Vilsack to Heed Dr. Huber's Warning!
- 12/14/11 - Time for a Food and Farm Bill that Helps Farmers and Consumers
- 12/12/11 - French Farmer Sues Monsanto after Inhaling Weedkiller
- 12/12/11 - Raw Milk Fight Is on From Amish Farms to Co-ops
- 12/09/11 - Eating at Fast Food Restaurants May Lead to Food Poisoning
- 12/07/11 - Farmer Makes Plea Deal over Fake Organic Crop
- 12/06/11 - Family Farmers Join Occupy Wall Street Farmers March in Solidarity
- 12/06/11 - Insects Find Crack In Biotech Corn's Armor
- 12/06/11 - Small Farmers Crave Horse Power
- 12/05/11 - Regulators, Tea Partiers, and Populists
- 12/05/11 - Farmers Join Occupy Wall Street, Calling for Food Justice
- 12/05/11 - Biomass Is the Next Biofuel 'Land Grab' on Tropical Forests, Warn Campaigners
- 12/05/11 - The Greatest Water Crisis in the History of Civilization: Coming to the American West?
- 12/03/11 - The Organic 1%: Sustainable Farming in a Broken System
- 11/29/11 - Crop Insurance: This Year's Farm Bill Frontier
- 11/28/11 - The Harder They Spin: What USFRA Wants Us to Believe and Why It's Still Not the Truth
- 11/28/11 - Raw Milk Freedom Riders To Defy FDA Warning
- 11/22/11 - No Secret Farm Bill and Other Things to Be Thankful For
- 11/22/11 - Mic Checking Big Food
- 11/17/11 - FDA Concedes Raw Milk Across State Lines OK for Personal Consumption
- 11/17/11 - Theft in Progress: Big Ag Raids the Treasury - With Help from Congress
- 11/17/11 - A Local Food Blueprint
- 11/16/11 - Beet Farmers Big Supercommittee Donors
- 11/16/11 - How the Supercommittee Could Kill New Farmers Markets
- 11/16/11 - VIDEO: Michael Pollan on the Farm Bill
- 11/15/11 - Health Department Tyrants Raid Local 'Farm to Fork' Picnic Dinner
- 11/14/11 - Action Alert: Protect Organics from Synthetic Additives and Factory Farms
- 11/09/11 - The Secret Farm Bill - How the One Percent Dictate our Food and Farm Policies
- 11/08/11 - Incredible Shrinking Farmland
- 11/07/11 - The Local Food, Farms And Jobs Act
- 11/04/11 - Consumers Losing Faith in Big Food
- 11/03/11 - Ohio Farmers Fly-In to DC to Talk about Protecting Local Farms
- 11/03/11 - Alert: Stop the Secret Farm Bill!
- 11/01/11 - Will a 'Secret Farm Bill' be Passed This Week?
- 10/31/11 - 'Milk and Cookies' Could Get Moms Arrested
- 10/31/11 - State Asks Funds for Healthy Food in New Farm Bill
- 10/28/11 - Monsanto Invests in Pollinator Research, Ignores Effects of Pesticides
- 10/24/11 - Only When Meat Is Stigmatized Will Factory Farms Stop Thriving
- 10/21/11 - Farms Need People, Not Machines
- 10/19/11 - Anti-Raw Milk Judge Quits the Bench to Work for Monsanto Law Firm
- 10/19/11 - Let Our Farmers Grow Hemp
- 10/19/11 - Freedom Riders to Stage Demonstration at FDA Headquarters in Defense of Raw Milk
- 10/19/11 - Global Citizens' Report on the State of GMOs: Superweeds, Superpests, Failure to Increase Yields
- 10/19/11 - Organic Farming Crucial to Soil Health
- 10/17/11 - Interview With Will Allen of Cedar Circle Farm in Vermont
- 10/17/11 - Welcome Food Activism on Wall Street
- 10/17/11 - Food Justice: it's What's for Dinner
- 10/17/11 - Darigold Is Still Not Listening!
- 10/17/11 - Occupying Wall Street:The Farm Bureau is a Front Group for Agribusiness
- 10/14/11 - USDA Pushes Veggies, But Subsidizes Meat
- 10/13/11 - We Can Feed 10 Billion of Us, Study Finds but It Wont Be Easy
- 10/12/11 - Biofuels, Speculators Driving Food Price Surges
- 10/09/11 - Factory Farms Rarely Cited for Polluting
- 10/07/11 - Is Walmart Allergic to Pollan?
- 10/06/11 - Labor Pains on the Farm
- 10/05/11 - Monsanto Buys Beeologics, Claims to be Working to Save Bees
- 10/04/11 - What's Big Ag Keeping From You?
- 10/04/11 - The New Agtivists: FoodCorps Foot Soldiers
- 10/04/11 - How to Fork Wall Street Over
- 10/04/11 - Water for Crops, but Farmworkers Go Thirsty
- 10/03/11 - As the 99 Percenters Gather, 1 Percent Could Make a Difference
- 10/02/11 - Salmonella Stays with Chickens, from Birth to Kitchen
- 09/30/11 - Deadly Cantaloupes - Could it Be CAFOs?
- 09/30/11 - Environmental Leaders to Congress: Don't Stop Funding Conservation on Farms
- 09/29/11 - Feds Help GMO Salmon Swim Upstream
- 09/28/11 - Children of the Corn
- 09/27/11 - Big Food Exerts Unhealthy Influence on America's Nutritionists
- 09/27/11 - Who's Behind the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance and Why it Matters
- 09/25/11 - Thanks to Speculative Investors, the Food Market Will Be the Next Bubble to Burst
- 09/25/11 - What Causes Bee Colony Collapse Disorder?
- 09/21/11 - Does Walmart's Money Help or Hurt?
- 09/21/11 - Fukushima Farmers Keep Calm and Carry On
- 09/21/11 - Now Available: Complete Audio Archives of the 2011 Raw Milk Symposium
- 09/20/11 - Did Walmart Buy Urban Agriculture Group's Silence?
- 09/20/11 - Tell Your Grocer: We Want GMOs & Factory Farm Products Labeled!
- 09/19/11 - Officials Slam Corn Syrup Rebranding
- 09/19/11 - Governor Can Help California Economy, Farmers and the Environment by Signing New Industrial Hemp Farming Bill
- 09/19/11 - Troubled Waters: One Year Later, More Trouble Ahead
- 09/19/11 - Growing Concern over Drugs Fed to Animals
- 09/17/11 - The President and Seed: Obama Needs to Stand Up to Corporate Power
- 09/15/11 - Peasant and Indigenous People Have Thousands of Solutions to Confront Climate Change!
- 09/12/11 - Securing a Food Future in Cities: a Case Study in Repurposing Military Bases
- 09/08/11 - EU Court rules on GMO Contamination; Opens Door to Biotech Liability
- 09/07/11 - Field of Broken Dreams
- 09/05/11 - Local Food Advocates Protest in Santa Cruz against Crackdown on Small Dairy Farms
- 09/05/11 - Irene's Damage Not 'Overrated' for Farmers
- 09/02/11 - Climate Change a Key Factor in Mexican Migration to U.S.
- 09/01/11 - Dust Flying in Countryside Over USDA Animal ID Proposal
- 08/31/11 - Green for Greens: Philadelphia Subsidizes Farmers Markets
- 08/31/11 - Run and Hide from Methyl Iodide
- 08/30/11 - Can Communities Reclaim the Right to Say "No" to Corporations?
- 08/29/11 - We Need More Markets - and Veggie Eaters
- 08/26/11 - Forget Potatoes: Idaho Now Grows CAFOs
- 08/24/11 - Airport Beekeeping Project is a Win-Win-Win
- 08/24/11 - You Shouldn't Be Able to Buy Soda with Food Stamps
- 08/22/11 - As Obama Pushes for Rural Jobs, His Regulators Obliterate Them
- 08/22/11 - Monsanto and the Mortal Danger to Traditional Agriculture
- 08/19/11 - Sunflowers Melt Fukushima's Nuclear Snow
- 08/19/11 - USDA Scientist: Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide Damages Soil
- 08/17/11 - Baby Steps: USDA Tiptoes Toward Fighting Animal Cruelty
- 08/17/11 - Safe, Organic Food Too Expensive? Eat Less Meat
- 08/17/11 - "Unfairly Vilified" Big Food Hits Back at Food Activists
- 08/12/11 - Moms Rally to Defend Raw Food Club After Federal Raid
- 08/10/11 - 36 Million Pounds of Salmonella-Tainted Proof that Our Food Safety System is Broken
- 08/10/11 - Hazards of the Harvest: Children in the Fields
- 08/08/11 - Join the Social Media Revolt against Government Raids on Raw Milk
- 08/07/11 - Rawesome Foods Raided: A Sad Day for America
- 08/05/11 - ALEC Exposed: Protecting Factory Farms and Sewage Sludge?
- 08/05/11 - Organic Farming Systems Yield Energy Savings of 20% or More
- 08/03/11 - Multi-Agency Armed Raid Hits Rawesome Foods
- 08/03/11 - Not Your Grandma's Strawberries
- 07/29/11 - Prince Charles Calls for Better Understanding of Benefits of Organic Farming
- 07/27/11 - No Free Pass for New Genetically Engineered Crops!
- 07/27/11 - Would the FDA Let Raw Milk Politics Influence its Food Safety Alerts?
- 07/26/11 - Is it Enough to Tax Junk Food and Subsidize Good Food?
- 07/25/11 - El Dorado County Farmers Challenge Food Regulations
- 07/25/11 - The USDA's Regulatory Hammer Finally Comes Down on Promiseland Livestock
- 07/18/11 - Keystone XL Pipeline Would Screw Over Farmers, Threaten Aquifer
- 07/15/11 - Would You Eat Mutant Meat?
- 07/15/11 - USDA Seeks Ways to Boost Farm-to-School Programs
- 07/13/11 - Who Really Benefits from the Egg Industry Deal?
- 07/11/11 - Engineering An Environmental Disaster
- 07/06/11 - Gov't Wants to Restrict Your Right to Drink Raw Milk
- 07/05/11 - EPA Risks Killing Bees to Fight Invasive Stink Bugs
- 07/01/11 - Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher is Bad for Food
- 06/30/11 - Stop Land-grabbing in the Philippines
- 06/30/11 - How the Meat Industry Turned Abuse into a Business Model
- 06/29/11 - Agribusiness and Climate Change: How Six Food Industry Giants Are Warming the Planet
- 06/27/11 - There's a Foxx Guarding the Ag-Policy Henhouse
- 06/27/11 - Monsanto Trying to Take over World Seed Supply, Nation by Nation
- 06/27/11 - A Twenty-year Vision for Organic Agriculture
- 06/24/11 - The Serfs of Arkansas: Tyson's Sharecroppers
- 06/24/11 - Corporate Food Executives Aren't Struggling Quite as Much as Farmers
- 06/23/11 - Congress About to Let Agribiz Get Liberal - with Pesticides
- 06/22/11 - Support the California Farmworkers' Rights Bill
- 06/22/11 - Doctors Ask EPA to Help Fight Pesticide Exposure in Farmworkers
- 06/22/11 - Pesticide Spraying Near Streams to Increase Under Congressional bill
- 06/21/11 - USDA and Corporate Agribusiness Continue to Push Animal ID Scheme
- 06/20/11 - Republican Ag Bill: Subsidies for Chemical/GMO Farms and Slashing Aid for the Poor
- 06/20/11 - The Indignity of Industrial Tomatoes
- 06/17/11 - Don't Ban Raw Milk Because of the E. Coli Outbreak
- 06/17/11 - Routine Use of Vital Antibiotics on Farms Threatens Human Health
- 06/16/11 - USDA Rejects GOP Demand to Undo New School Meal Guidelines
- 06/15/11 - Record 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico
- 06/14/11 - A Fight Over the Future of Farming: U.N. Ag Group vs. Big Ag
- 06/13/11 - Organic Farmers vs Monsanto
- 06/10/11 - Report: Pesticide-Birth Defect Link Hidden From Public
- 06/09/11 - US Universities Get in on Africa Land Grab
- 06/09/11 - FDA Admits Supermarket Chickens Test Positive for Arsenic
- 06/09/11 - What's Wrong with the USDA's New MyPlate Graphic? Plenty
- 06/09/11 - Soil Scientists Seek Sustainable Farm Policies, Practices
- 06/08/11 - Which Garden Model Should We be Showering with Our Tax Dollars?
- 06/08/11 - Monsanto Asks Argentine Farmers to Sign Seed Contracts
- 06/07/11 - Food Safety Chief Defends Raw Milk Raids
- 06/07/11 - 90% Sprout Contamination Conventional, Not Organic (Linked to Factory Farm Livestock Production)
- 06/06/11 - 'I Want to Be a Farmer'
- 06/06/11 - New MRSA Strain Found In Dairy Cattle and Humans
- 06/06/11 - Tell CA Gov. Jerry Brown to Protect Farm Workers
- 06/06/11 - Food Supply Under Strain on a Warming Planet
- 05/31/11 - 'Ag-Gag' Bills Face Tough Row to Hoe
- 05/31/11 - Rising Food Prices Increase Squeeze on Poor
- 05/26/11 - Groups Sue FDA to Stop Addition of Antibiotics in Livestock Feed
- 05/25/11 - Factory Farms Produce 100 Times More Waste Than All People in the US Combined and It's Killing Our Drinking Water
- 05/24/11 - How Industrial Agriculture Makes us Vulnerable to Climate Change, Mississippi Floods Edition
- 05/23/11 - Court of Appeals Dismisses Monsanto's Appeal of Biotech Beets Case, Preserves Victory for Farmers, Environment
- 05/23/11 - Farmers vs. Feds: Raw-Milk Fight
- 05/21/11 - Why Science Alone Can't Defeat Big Food's Policy Stranglehold
- 05/21/11 - The 'Honeybee Underground' Rescues Bees, Promotes Backyard Beekeeping in a Neighborhood Near You
- 05/19/11 - Trader Joe's Takes New, Darker Tack in Response to Coalition of Immokalee Workers
- 05/19/11 - Farm Workers Witness Historic Vote onFair Treatment for Farm Workers Act
- 05/19/11 - Acres USA Interviews Don Huber on Dangers of Monsanto's Roundup-Ready Crops
- 05/19/11 - Monsanto's New "Drought-Resistant" Corn: Tell USDA, "Don't Approve Failure!"
- 05/19/11 - Keepers of the Seeds: How Seed-Saving Native Farmers Preserve Agricultural Heritage
- 05/19/11 - Controversial Fumigant Methyl Iodide Applied for First Time in California
- 05/19/11 - Farm Runoff in Mississippi River Floodwater Fuels Dead Zone in Gulf
- 05/18/11 - Another Danger of Non-Organic Farming: Exploding Watermelons
- 05/18/11 - How a Fake Organic Fertilizer Bamboozled Farmers and Watchdogs Alike
- 05/17/11 - Big Ag Doesn't Want You to Care About Pesticides
- 05/17/11 - Floods Stir up Longer-Term Environmental Concerns with Pesticides and Waste
- 05/16/11 - Monsanto, DuPont Will Benefit Once Mississippi Flooding Subsides
- 05/16/11 - Antibiotics in Livestock Feed Raises Concerns
- 05/16/11 - From the Fields to Inner City, Pesticides Affect Children's IQ
- 05/15/11 - Swiss Researcher Shows Natural Breeding Better than GMOs
- 05/13/11 - Neighbors Oppose Strawberry Farms' Fumigant Use
- 05/12/11 - Crushed by Debt and Neoliberal Reforms, Indian Farmers Commit Suicide at Staggering Rate
- 05/12/11 - France to Ban Fracking of Fossil Fuels
- 05/12/11 - USDA Looks to Approve Monsanto's Drought-Tolerant Corn
- 05/12/11 - Factory Farms the Only Way to 'Feed the World'? Not So, Argues Science Paper
- 05/12/11 - Why Mobile Phones May Make Bees Buzz Off
- 05/09/11 - Save the Seeds
- 05/09/11 - How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
- 05/09/11 - Prince Charles Crosses the Pond to Denounce Factory Farming
- 05/07/11 - Ag Rules, Meet the Farmarazzi
- 05/06/11 - State Legislatures Take Up Bills Barring Undercover Videos of Confined Animal Feeding Operations
- 05/05/11 - Bad Seeds: A Plan to Phase Out the $5 Billion in 'Direct Payment' Agricultural Subsidies
- 05/05/11 - Missouri Floods Raise Concerns for the Gulf, Drinking Water
- 05/02/11 - FDA Agents Launch Covert Ops Against D.C.-Area Raw-Milk Buying Club
- 05/02/11 - Monsanto-Tied Scientist Abruptly Quits Key USDA Research Post
- 05/02/11 - The Flip Side of Tilapia, the Perfect Factory Fish
- 05/02/11 - Bill to Limit Factory Farms' Liability Faces Possible Veto
- 05/02/11 - Industrial Food and Farming's Impact On US Energy Consumption
- 04/29/11 - Government-Backed Corn Ethanol Lurches on, Paving a Road to Nowhere
- 04/28/11 - Minnesota Reps Behind Ag-Gag Bill Have Factory-Farm Ties
- 04/28/11 - Study Ranks Food Pathogens from Factory Farms by Cost to Society
- 04/27/11 - Monsanto Will Soon Be Allowed To Police Itself
- 04/26/11 - A Star Silicon Valley Investor Puts His Money Where His Mouth is for Sustainable Ag
- 04/26/11 - THE SCOOP - April 2011 Organic Center Newsletter
- 04/26/11 - Food Prices: World Bank Warns Millions Face Poverty
- 04/25/11 - Newt Gingrich Faces Questions About Consulting Job and Support for Biofuels
- 04/25/11 - The Growing Food Crisis, and What World Leaders Aren't Doing About It
- 04/25/11 - Sacred Tobacco Teachings Illuminate Bee Colony Collapse Catastrophe
- 04/24/11 - More Evidence Linking Pesticides and Malformations
- 04/24/11 - Blue Plains Upgrade Could Produce Valuable Farm Fertilizer, but Critics are Wary
- 04/21/11 - Got Milk? Got Drugs? Got Both?: State Responds After Idaho Dairy Cattle Test Positive in Food Safety Tests
- 04/21/11 - Stop Factory Farming of "Organic" Eggs & Chicken
- 04/20/11 - USDA Moves to Let Monsanto Perform its Own Environmental Impact Studies on GMOs
- 04/20/11 - Agriculture: The Unlikely Earth Day Hero
- 04/20/11 - Expert Says Agriculture Can Affect Climate Change
- 04/19/11 - Migrant Farm Workers' Health Suffers Due to Housing, Labour
- 04/19/11 - Action Alert: Texas Raw Milk and Local Foods Bills go to Hearing Wednesday
- 04/18/11 - Factory Farmers Downplay Report that 50% of Non-Organic Meat Contains Dangerous Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens
- 04/16/11 - Study: Half of All Non-Organic Meat and Poultry Sold at Supermarkets Tainted by Bacteria
- 04/15/11 - Miles of Confusion Over What 'Locally Grown' Means
- 04/15/11 - Ranchers Struggle Against Giant Meatpackers and Economic Troubles
- 04/14/11 - Minnesota Next Up to Pass Law Banning Undercover Farm Videos
- 04/13/11 - New Legislation Limits Public Access to Agricultural Records
- 04/13/11 - Food Safety Labs May Not Have Capacity to Handle a Crisis Like Japan's
- 04/13/11 - High Corn and Soy Prices Increase Erosion Risk
- 04/12/11 - Big Ag Demands Right to Pollute California's Central Valley
- 04/10/11 - Farming on Water: Stackable, Sustainable, in the City
- 04/09/11 - Sludge Sloughs Off Perfluorinated Chemicals
- 04/08/11 - Anti-EPA House Votes to Let Agribusiness Dump Pesticides in Our Water
- 04/07/11 - Should Some Pesticides be Banned to Protect Bees?
- 04/06/11 - GM Crops Still a Tiny Part of World Farming
- 04/06/11 - Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick its Reliance on Low-Dose Antibiotics?
- 04/06/11 - The Time to Act on GMOs is Now
- 04/05/11 - Budget Fight Threatens to Turn Farm Bill into Industrial Ag Bill
- 04/05/11 - And the Biggest Biofool is...
- 04/05/11 - A Battle to Reverse California's Methyl Iodide Approval
- 04/05/11 - Honeybees 'Entomb' Hives to Protect Against Pesticides, Say Scientists
- 04/04/11 - Startling New Report Shines Light on Farm Labor Conditions - and They Ain't Good
- 03/31/11 - Appeals Court Upholds Decision Barring Factory Farms from Water Pollution in Michigan
- 03/30/11 - Farm Subsidies Paid to the Members of the 112th Congress
- 03/30/11 - New Bayer Pesticide Linked to Bee Decline
- 03/29/11 - Let Them Eat Bread: How Food Subsidies Prevent (and Provoke) Revolutions in the Middle East
- 03/29/11 - The Battle for Biodiversity: Monsanto and Farmers Clash
- 03/28/11 - Study: Organic Chicken Carries Significantly Lower Salmonella Risk
- 03/28/11 - Organic Farming Just as Productive as Conventional, and Better at Building Soil, Rodale Finds
- 03/28/11 - Organic Dairy Farmer Francis Thicke Promotes House File 394, the Iowa Raw Milk Bill
- 03/25/11 - Maine Town Passes Local Food and Community Self-Governance Ordinance Becomes First in US to Declare Food Sovereignty
- 03/24/11 - Genetically Modified Crops Get Boost Over Organics With Recent USDA Rulings
- 03/21/11 - Forget Farmers Markets - I Want to Sell My Pastured Meat at Price Chopper
- 03/21/11 - Think Tainted Chinese Pork is Scary? Check Out the Nearest Supermarket Meat Case
- 03/21/11 - Lawyer Estimates $400M a Year is Spent Removing Atrazine from Drinking Water
- 03/19/11 - Feedlot Meat Has Spurred a Soy Boom That Has a Devastating Environmental and Human Cost
- 03/19/11 - The Coming Global Food Fight
- 03/17/11 - Dairy Industry Pushes CAFO Secrecy Bill
- 03/16/11 - Superbugs in the Supermarket
- 03/16/11 - Maine Towns Reject One-Size-Fits-All Regulation, Declare 'Food Sovereignty'
- 03/16/11 - Poultry Industry Smothers Immigrant Farmers and Abuses Antibiotics
- 03/16/11 - Roundup Ready Canola as a Resistant Weed
- 03/15/11 - Open Letter to Natural Food Stores and Coops: Please Stop Selling Unlabeled Genetically Engineered and Factory-Farmed Foods
- 03/15/11 - Are Regulators Doing Enough to Prevent Bee Die-Offs?
- 03/15/11 - Higher Food Prices May be Here to Stay
- 03/10/11 - Debunking the Stubborn Myth that Only Industrial Ag Can 'Feed the World'
- 03/10/11 - Why World Food Prices May Keep Climbing
- 03/10/11 - America's Breadbasket Aquifer Running Dry; Massive Agriculture Collapse Inevitable
- 03/10/11 - Decline of Honey Bees Now a Global Phenomenon, Says United Nations
- 03/09/11 - Farmers Must Be Weaned Off Using Oil
- 03/08/11 - Obama Administration's Ag Policy: Token Nods to Organic, and Policy Power Behind Industrial Ag
- 03/08/11 - Florida Lawmaker Wants to Make Farm Photos Illegal
- 03/08/11 - A New Study Shows That Palm Oil Plantations For Biofuels Leads to Deforestation
- 03/08/11 - Agribusiness Boom Threatens Key African Wildlife Migration
- 03/07/11 - The Myth of Doubling Food Production by 2050
- 03/07/11 - Nitrogen Fertilizer: Agricultural Breakthrough - And Environmental Bane
- 03/06/11 - Asia Rice Output Threatened by Pesticide Overuse
- 03/06/11 - Minn. Rep. Collin Peterson and Big Ag's Crusade Against Climate Policy Rages On
- 03/06/11 - Dirt! The Movie Explores the Vital Importance of Soil
- 03/04/11 - Time to End the Insane Practice of Lacing Chicken feed with Arsenic
- 03/04/11 - Rural Women Protest Use of Toxic Agrochemicals
- 03/03/11 - Stop Toxic Sewage Sludge from Being Dumped on Farmland!
- 03/01/11 - The Evolution of the Revolution: Raw Milk Legislation in MN
- 02/28/11 - Despite its Horizon Brand, Dairy Giant Dean Foods Really Doesn't Get Organic
- 02/28/11 - Farm Bureau Attacks EPA Attempts to Limit Pollutant Runoff into Chesapeake Bay
- 02/27/11 - The Price of Food is at the Heart of This Wave of Revolutions
- 02/25/11 - Several States Consider Loosening Raw Milk Restrictions as FDA Tries to Tighten Them
- 02/25/11 - Women in Agriculture - By the Numbers
- 02/24/11 - Room for Debate: Is the World Producing Enough Food?
- 02/24/11 - Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
- 02/24/11 - California Department of Pesticide Regulation's Own Scientist Decries Registration of Strawberry Fumigant
- 02/23/11 - Why the Food Movement Is Becoming an Environmental Force
- 02/22/11 - Local and Organic Food and Farming: The Gold Standard
- 02/22/11 - Due to Threatened Legal Action by the Agency of Agriculture Rural Vermont Suspends Raw-Dairy Process
- 02/22/11 - For Once, Developments in Washington Could Make Things Better on the Farm
- 02/22/11 - Unraveling the Mystery Of The Bizarre Deformed Frogs
- 02/18/11 - Dear Obamas: Let's Move ... On Food Policy Reform
- 02/18/11 - Chicken, Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, and Regulatory Independence
- 02/18/11 - FDA's Crackdown on Raw-Milk Cheese Based on Flawed Data Analysis
- 02/18/11 - New Study Reveals Dangers of Prenatal Pesticide Exposure
- 02/16/11 - The Coming Crisis of Renewed Soaring Food Prices
- 02/15/11 - Why is Trader Joe's Short-Changing Farm-Worker Justice?
- 02/15/11 - Urban Farmers Use Wastewater to Feed Growing Cities
- 02/14/11 - Ag Workers Sue Monsanto in Class Action
- 02/14/11 - Roses Are Red, But Not 'Green'
- 02/14/11 - Livestock Plagues are Spreading
- 02/11/11 - Experts: Contamination from GM Alfalfa Certain
- 02/09/11 - Farmworkers Bear the Brunt of New Mexico Chile Crisis
- 02/07/11 - Slaughterhouses are More Sanitary when Sanitized
- 02/05/11 - Raw Milk Cheesemakers Fret Over Possible New Rules
- 02/05/11 - How Much Do Antibiotics Used on the Farm Contribute to the Spread of Resistant Bacteria?
- 02/03/11 - How the Next Farm Bill Could Plant a New Crop of Farmers
- 02/02/11 - Free Trade: As U.S. Corn Flows South, Mexicans Stop Farming
- 02/01/11 - Making Hay is as Messy as Making Sausages: Deregulating GE Alfalfa
- 02/01/11 - White House Pressured Vilsack to Approve GMO Alfalfa, Media Reports Suggest
- 02/01/11 - UK's Soil Association Threatened with Libel Action for Opposing Giant New Pig Factory
- 01/29/11 - Why Women Who Pick and Process Your Food Face Daily Threats of Rape, Harassment and Wage Theft
- 01/28/11 - Farmworkers are Climbing Up the Organic Food Chain
- 01/28/11 - Deadly Superbugs are Spread Miles from Farms by House Flies
- 01/28/11 - 3 Senators Propose Legalizing Sale of Raw Milk
- 01/27/11 - Hundreds of Yankton, South Dakota Birds Poisoned by USDA
- 01/26/11 - How Walmart Execs Fleeced the White House on 'Healthy Food'
- 01/26/11 - Fearless Food Policy
- 01/25/11 - With Food-System Reform Slowed to a Crawl, Local Initiatives Come to Fore
- 01/24/11 - Food and Resource Revolts: The Year of Living Dangerously
- 01/24/11 - Top USDA Bee Researcher Also Found Bayer Pesticide Harmful to Honeybees
- 01/24/11 - LA Enacts New Strawberry Labeling Law
- 01/24/11 - Parsing the New 'Humane' Food Labels
- 01/24/11 - USDA Acknowledges a Hand in One Mass Bird Death
- 01/21/11 - What Do "Free Range," "Organic" and Other Chicken Labels Really Mean?
- 01/21/11 - Call to Ban Pesticides Linked to Bee Deaths
- 01/20/11 - CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
- 01/19/11 - Food Crises Pummel the Poor, Austerity Multiplies Pain
- 01/19/11 - Reading the Tea Leaves for the Future of the Global Food Trade
- 01/19/11 - Can Eating Less Meat Curb Climate Change?
- 01/16/11 - Tests Confirm Banned Drugs in US Beef
- 01/16/11 - California Can't Have it All: There's Not Enough Water to Support Farmers, Cities and the Environment
- 01/14/11 - Why the Banana Crisis Doesn't Make Me Stop Worrying and Love GMOs
- 01/14/11 - Cargill: Rolling in Cash, Relying on Child Labor
- 01/13/11 - The 'Food Bubble' is Bursting, Says Lester Brown, and Biotech Won't Save Us
- 01/13/11 - Worldwatch Report Highlights How Lopsided Discussion is About Africa, Food, and Biotechnology
- 01/13/11 - World Agriculture Threatened by Water Gluttony: Report
- 01/12/11 - Organizing a Grassroots Truth-in-Labeling Campaign in Your Community
- 01/12/11 - EPA Proposes Phaseout of Fluoride-Based Pesticide
- 01/12/11 - Beekeepers Fume at Association's Endorsement of Fatal Insecticides
- 01/11/11 - Hemp History Week 2011
- 01/11/11 - Why Mexico is Such a Mess: NAFTA and Bad Ag Policy
- 01/11/11 - Genetic Engineering 'Has Polluted Rivers Across the United States'
- 01/10/11 - Meat: A Benign Extravagance: The Best Book of the Year on Food and Farming
- 01/10/11 - Nitrogen Fertilizer in Industrial Agriculture Releasing Dangerous Level of Potent Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide
- 01/07/11 - How to Get Your City to Allow Backyard Chickens
- 01/07/11 - Antibiotics Make Animals Fat and Sick
- 01/04/11 - Researchers Find "Alarming" Decline In Bumblebees
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