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2009 News Stories
- 12/30/09 - If Whole Foods Sells the Same Junk as Everyone Else, Then What's the Point?
- 12/29/09 - The Slow Food, "Slow Money" Movement May Revolutionize the Way You Think About Food
- 12/28/09 - Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Stepping Down As Chairman of the Board
- 12/28/09 - Corporate Globalization Leaving Developing Nations Hungry
- 12/14/09 - Hell is the Tijuana Assembly Line
- 12/14/09 - Food: Commodity or Human Right?
- 12/11/09 - Chipotle Challenge: Time to Back up 'Food with Integrity'
- 12/09/09 - How Far Your Produce Travels - Interactive Tool
- 12/05/09 - Wendell Berry Says Large-Scale Farms Killing Land as Well as Towns
- 12/02/09 - Labor Fight Ends in Win for Students
- 12/02/09 - The Localization of Agriculture
- 12/02/09 - The Sustainable Local Food Movement Needs to Include Labor and Poor People
- 11/29/09 - Activists Target 'World of Coca-Cola" for Labor Rights Violations and Environmental Crimes
- 11/27/09 - On Web and iPhone, a Tool to Aid Careful Shopping
- 11/26/09 - Which Side Are You On? Organizing Labor in America
- 11/18/09 - The Value of Nothing (Video Preview)
- 11/16/09 - Nike Foe Ballinger Takes on Timberland
- 11/13/09 - The New Wave of Urban Farming
- 11/06/09 - Localization is Way to Redefine Globalization
- 11/04/09 - Cutting the Global Economy Down to Size: The Nature of Work and the Green-Collar Workforce
- 11/03/09 - Ohio Market Farmer Cited for Washing Raw Produce
- 10/28/09 - The Power of Growing Your Own Food
- 10/21/09 - Americans, Their Smiley-Face Facade, and Reality
- 10/20/09 - Amid Ruin of Flint, Michigan, Seeing Hope in a Garden
- 10/18/09 - Publicly-Owned Banks Can Help States and Residents
- 10/13/09 - The Story of the Tarnac 9
- 10/12/09 - The Economic Revolution Is Already Happening - It's Just Not on Wall St.
- 10/10/09 - California's Food Banks Go Locavore
- 10/08/09 - Eating Organically on a Food-Stamp Budget
- 10/07/09 - Despite Recession, the Market for Healthy and 'Ethical' Consumer Products Remains Healthy
- 10/06/09 - Apples, Pumpkins and Squash - Time to Switch our Local Food Radar to Autumn
- 10/04/09 - Gandhi Today
- 10/04/09 - Here's the Skinny on Why Wal-Mart Is So Evil (and Has Made Such a Killing)
- 10/02/09 - Octogenarian Charlie Koiner Leads the Way in City Farming
- 09/29/09 - Under the Clinton Global Initiative, Growing Power Takes its Grassroots-Agriculture Model to Africa
- 09/28/09 - OCA, Teamsters and Jobs With Justice at ExpoEast
- 09/28/09 - Naomi Klein Interviews Michael Moore : America's Teacher
- 09/28/09 - 'Local' Goes Loco
- 09/25/09 - Support the Next Generation of Sustainable and Organic Farmers
- 09/25/09 - Groups Protest Whole Foods, UNFI at Natural Products Expo
- 09/24/09 - Towards a Green Food System: How Food Sovereignty Can Save the Environment and Feed the World
- 09/24/09 - 'Nation' Misses Golden Opportunity to Highlight Workers' Voices
- 09/24/09 - Small-Scale Sustainable Farmers are Cooling Down the Earth
- 09/24/09 - Court Trial Soon on Ohio Food Co-op SWAT Team Raid
- 09/24/09 - A New Crop of Eco-Warriors Take to Their Own Streets
- 09/24/09 - Are You Sure That Slaves Didn't Pick the Produce That Fills Your Fridge?
- 09/22/09 - USDA Hearings Start on Corporate-Backed Food Safety Scheme - Plan Threatens Local and Organic Family Farmers
- 09/18/09 - Protecting Local Farms
- 09/17/09 - Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative is a Nice Symbol, But Will it Actually Change Anything?
- 09/16/09 - Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea - Book by Alice Waters
- 09/15/09 - Food is Freedom
- 09/15/09 - Large Florida Grower Steps up for Farm Workers
- 09/15/09 - If JBS-Pilgrim's Deal Goes Through, Four Mega-Firms will Dominate the Meat Landscape
- 09/15/09 - Slow Money Alliance Holds First National Conference
- 09/11/09 - Another Reason to Buy Organic Fair Trade Chocolate
- 09/10/09 - Detroit's 'Quiet Revolution' : Local Foods Movement Takes Root
- 09/09/09 - The Economics of Local Food
- 09/09/09 - Michigan's Unlikely Food Revolution
- 09/09/09 - ‘Time’ Was Right About Cheap Food - But Forgot Farmworkers
- 09/08/09 - Ending Africa's Hunger: the Rise of Philanthropy Capitalism
- 09/08/09 - 'Localwashing' in Pictures - Bogus Marketing at its Finest
- 09/07/09 - Pace of Change Under Obama Frustrates Unions
- 09/07/09 - The Virtues of Deglobalization: Walden Bello
- 09/07/09 - Why Honor Organized Labor?
- 09/04/09 - Muhammad Yunus: Financial Meltdown Is Chance to Build More Inclusive System
- 09/03/09 - There Are Really Two Questions: Which Side Are the Democrats On? and Which Side Are the Labor Unions On?
- 09/03/09 - New SF Company a Locavore's Dream
- 09/02/09 - More Than Wiggle to a Worm
- 09/01/09 - Harnessing USDA Rural Development Programs to Support Local and Regional Food Systems
- 08/31/09 - Top USDA Official Gets Serious about Local/Regional Food Systems
- 08/31/09 - Farm to Hub to Table: New Nonprofit Feeds Appetite For Local Food
- 08/29/09 - Whole Foods Looks and Acts More Like Wal-Mart Than a 'Sustainable' Natural Foods Store
- 08/25/09 - Unions Target Whole Foods CEO Over Health Piece
- 08/25/09 - The Dark Side of Dairies: A Broken System Leaves Immigrant Workers Invisible - and in Danger
- 08/24/09 - Whole Foods Opposing Employee Free Choice
- 08/24/09 - Obama Wants to Set Up White House Farmers Market
- 08/21/09 - Labor Warns Dems: We'll Sit Out Election If You Oppose Significant Health & Labor REforms
- 08/21/09 - A Message from Whole Foods: Let Them Eat Cake
- 08/21/09 - Customers Call for Boycott After Whole Foods Chief Executive Criticises US Healthcare Reform
- 08/20/09 - Ancient Farming Techniques to Save the Campo
- 08/20/09 - New Antitrust Division of US Justice Department Scrutinizes Monopolies in Agriculture
- 08/19/09 - Why You Should Boycott Whole Foods
- 08/19/09 - Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's Utterly Disappointing Worldview
- 08/17/09 - Go Local...and Prosper in More Ways Than One
- 08/14/09 - The Crisis: Can Labor Get Out of This Mess?
- 08/13/09 - Teamsters and the OCA Send Clear Message to UNFI: Greed Doesn't Pay!
- 08/12/09 - Fatal Sunshine: The Plight of California's Farm Workers
- 08/11/09 - Take Action: Whole Foods Promises to Expand Organic Offerings
- 08/06/09 - Obama Needs to Take a Stand on Trade
- 08/06/09 - The Locavore Myth?
- 08/03/09 - Washington State Alert: Tell Whole Foods: Keep it Local
- 08/03/09 - Free Trade in Agriculture: A Bad Idea Whose Time Is Done
- 08/03/09 - Are Starbucks and Whole Foods Union Busters?
- 07/30/09 - Stop Walmart's War on Free Speech: Don't Let Bentonville Use Frivolous Lawsuits to Stifle its Critics
- 07/29/09 - OCA Answers Whole Foods
- 07/27/09 - New Generation of Farmers Going Small-Scale
- 07/26/09 - How the Food Industry Has Made Bacon a Weapon of Mass Destruction
- 07/25/09 - Greenwashing Extraordinaire: Wal-Mart Glass-House 'Sustainability Index' Strategy
- 07/23/09 - Socially Aware British Chocoholics Rejoice as Cadbury's Dairy Milk Goes Fair Trade
- 07/22/09 - Why Were Fair Food Activists Kicked Out of Food, Inc.?
- 07/18/09 - Tales of How Big Corporations Are Screwing Americans Over
- 07/16/09 - New Film: What's on Your Plate?
- 07/16/09 - With Her New Book, Sustainable Food Advocate Jill Richardson Invites You to Join the Cause
- 07/15/09 - Organic Dairy Farmers Urge Boycott of Hood and Stonyfield
- 07/14/09 - 'Localwashing' Corporations Move to Co-opt Consumers Desire to Buy 'Local' & Sustainable Products & Services
- 07/14/09 - From Climate Science to Climate Justice: Climate Change a Symptom of Man's Inhumanity to Man
- 07/13/09 - The Left Needs Soul Searching
- 07/13/09 - Action Alert: Tell Whole Foods and UNFI: Organic Means Respecting Workers' Rights
- 07/10/09 - Israel’s First Real Farmers' Market
- 07/09/09 - Celebrating Independence from the U.S. Food Supply by Mike Adams
- 07/06/09 - Survey of the Week: Natural/Organic Food Producers and Processors to Analyze Fairness of the Wholesale and Retail Sector
- 07/03/09 - Make This July 4th Your Food Independence Day
- 06/30/09 - Campaign to Fair Trade the White House Unseals Invitation to Michelle Obama
- 06/29/09 - Colombia Support Network Statement on President Uribe's Visit to Washington
- 06/29/09 - Wal-Mart's Big Problem: Climate Change
- 06/28/09 - There's No Such Thing as Local vs. Organic Food
- 06/27/09 - Vouchers Double Value of Food Stamps at Boston Farmers' Markets
- 06/24/09 - Over 25,000 Letters Sent Urging No New Wal-Mart Stores Until EFCA Passes
- 06/23/09 - Fair Expectations: Rainforest Alliance v. Fairtrade
- 06/23/09 - OCA Alert: Tell Hershey's to Stop Abusive Child Labor in Cocoa Production
- 06/22/09 - Panama's Ngöbe Indians Win Major Victory at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- 06/17/09 - Unions and Migrant Workers Coalesce from Coast to Coast
- 06/17/09 - Urban Farming, a Bit Closer to the Sun
- 06/16/09 - High-End Coffee is Better for the Planet
- 06/16/09 - Indigenous Peoples’ Global Fight with Big Business
- 06/11/09 - Why Buy Organic and Fair Trade Baby Food?
- 06/10/09 - Drinking the Kool-Aid of Corporate America: The Dairy Oligarchy
- 06/09/09 - Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity
- 06/08/09 - Worker Co-ops: Green and Just Jobs You Can Own
- 06/05/09 - Two Whole Foods Suppliers in Florida Agree to Raise Wages of Exploited Tomato Pickers
- 06/04/09 - Will Dumping High-Fructose Corn Syrup Make Starbucks Fare Healthier?
- 06/02/09 - ILRF and OCA Respond to Rainforest Alliance
- 06/02/09 - Fighting for the Right to Grow Food in L.A.
- 06/02/09 - Can America's Urban Food Deserts Bloom?
- 05/31/09 - Activist of the Month: Jill Richardson is Cooking Up Change
- 05/28/09 - Homegrown Grains: The Key to Food Security -- How to Grow and Make Your Own Wheat Flour
- 05/27/09 - Grassroots International's Food Sovereignty Curriculum
- 05/22/09 - Good Methods for Finding Local Food
- 05/20/09 - What Do Starbucks and Wal-Mart Have in Common?
- 05/19/09 - Coming Soon: The Truth About Starbucks
- 05/17/09 - Small Farm Revival
- 05/15/09 - Local & Organic Small Farms Thriving in Vermont
- 05/15/09 - Brooklyn Food Coop & Justice Activists Mobilizing the Grassroots
- 05/14/09 - Industrial Local?
- 05/14/09 - Against the Grain of Industrial Agriculture, Truly Local Bread Stages a Comeback
- 05/14/09 - Labor Exploitation: The Ugly Truth Behind Organic Food
- 05/13/09 - Chemical-Intensive Agribusiness Tries to Greenwash its Food Products as "Local"
- 05/13/09 - Community Supported Organic Agriculture Growing in Heartland
- 05/13/09 - There is No Box: Big Ideas About Urban Agriculture and Local Food Systems
- 05/13/09 - A Year Later, Controversial Immigration Raid in Iowa Still Marks a Flashpoint
- 05/08/09 - Something Smells at Whole Foods
- 05/08/09 - One in Six Young Children Live at Risk of Hunger in 26 U.S. States
- 05/08/09 - Poverty and Food Insecurity in the Developing World: For Us, Tolls the Bell
- 05/04/09 - Fashion is Going Green, but How Can You Tell?
- 04/30/09 - Dr. Bronner's Response to Criticism of Fair Trade Organic Olive Oil from Palestine
- 04/29/09 - Eat Sustainably on a Food Stamp Budget
- 04/29/09 - Ending Bitter Taste of Exploitation in Florida's Tomato Fields
- 04/28/09 - Missouri and Florida Legislatures Endorse Measures that Would Negate EFCA
- 04/24/09 - Video: Our Chance to Change Walmart
- 04/24/09 - Is America Ready for Eco-Fashion?
- 04/24/09 - Is President Obama Serious About a New Relationship with the Americas?
- 04/24/09 - A Little Socialism For Us All
- 04/24/09 - Coca-Cola Emphatically Denies Human Rights Violations in Its China Businesses
- 04/24/09 - Bill Passes To Help Farm Workers Organize, Enforce Workplace Laws
- 04/23/09 - Consequences of US Farm Policy on Mexico Farmers
- 04/21/09 - Is Local Food Better?
- 04/21/09 - The Life Cycle of High-Fructose Corn Syrup
- 04/21/09 - Eating Local Means Figuring out Your 'Food Miles'
- 04/21/09 - Our 'Foodprint:' It's Not Just the Miles
- 04/16/09 - Coffee: Have an Impact on the World, One Cup at a Time
- 04/16/09 - Employee Free Choice Will Allow America's Workers to Drive Economic Recovery
- 04/15/09 - Action Alert: Tell Mars to Support Strong Labor Standards
- 04/11/09 - Mars, Inc. Announces Sustainability Commitments for Cocoa
- 04/09/09 - Starbucks and Whole Foods Pay Lip Service to Fair Trade while Preventing Their Workers from Forming Unions
- 04/09/09 - Florida Governor Pressed to Take the Lead on Worker Justice
- 04/05/09 - Living on Earth: Growing Rice Debt Free
- 04/04/09 - Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott "Blood Minerals"
- 04/01/09 - 8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement
- 03/30/09 - Are Fair-Trade Goods Recession Proof?
- 03/30/09 - Governor Crist: It's Time to End Slavery in Florida
- 03/29/09 - Wal-Mart Forced to Bargain, Finally, With Texas Meat Cutters
- 03/25/09 - Q&A: Local-Food Maven Alice Waters
- 03/24/09 - Clean Energy Plays Dirty in Oaxaca
- 03/23/09 - Study Confirms Wal-Mart's Entry into Communities Has Detrimental Impact on Variety of Local Businesses
- 03/20/09 - How Local Retailers Can Compete With Wal-Mart
- 03/20/09 - Walmart Gives Bonuses to Hourly Employees But Refuses to Increase Their Wages
- 03/18/09 - Burt's Bees, Tom's of Maine, Naked Juice: Your Favorite Brands? Take Another Look
- 03/17/09 - Top 10 Reasons to Shop at a Farmer's Market
- 03/13/09 - Food & Environment Electronic Digest - March 2009
- 03/12/09 - Organic Food Stores Look to Dedicated Customers to Counter Recession
- 03/12/09 - The Employee Free Choice Act 101
- 03/12/09 - Why Labor Law Doesn't Work for Workers
- 03/11/09 - Fair Trade Can Help Developing World Farms Hit by Food Crisis
- 03/11/09 - Bring Local Produce and the Customers Will Come
- 03/11/09 - Seed Companies Have a Bumper Crop of Customers
- 03/10/09 - The Revenge of the Watermelon: Growing Food is a Growing Enterprise
- 03/10/09 - Growing Power in an Urban Food Desert
- 03/10/09 - The Employee Free Choice Act - Ending the Banana Republic Dictatorship Called Work
- 03/06/09 - THE SCOOP - March 2009 Organic Center Newsletter
- 03/06/09 - Chiquita Seeks Dismissal of Colombia Death Lawsuit
- 03/05/09 - The Price of Tomatoes: Keeping Slavery Alive in Florida
- 03/05/09 - Top Paper in Environmental Policy: Eat Locally, or Eat Differently?
- 03/04/09 - Pro-Union Workers Fired in Over One-fourth of Union Election Campaigns
- 03/03/09 - The Employee Free Choice Act: An Integral Component of a Sustainable Food System
- 03/03/09 - Let Workers Choose When to Form Unions
- 03/03/09 - Memo To Business: Only Unions Will Save Your Bottom Line
- 03/03/09 - The EFCA Battle is Joined
- 03/03/09 - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Backs Employee Free Choice Act
- 03/03/09 - Employee Free Choice Act and the Lesson of Smithfield Packing
- 03/03/09 - School Lunches to Get $1 Billion a Year Boost
- 03/02/09 - The Failed Banks' Escalating War on Workers
- 02/25/09 - Brooklyn's New Culinary Movement
- 02/23/09 - OCA at the World Organic Trade Show
- 02/23/09 - NYC's Scott Stringer Releases a Plan for Remaking the Urban Food System
- 02/16/09 - Free Trade, Fair Trade, and the Equivalence of Organic Standards
- 02/12/09 - A Decadent Chocolate Valentine Cake for Your Sweetie That Just Happens to be Vegan!
- 02/12/09 - Have a Happier Valentine's Day Without Food Dyes
- 02/10/09 - Organic Consumers and the Labor Movement
- 02/09/09 - Sustainable Food Movement Calls Out Crist on Slavery
- 02/08/09 - Local Organic Food & Farming Can Help Revitalize the Economy
- 02/03/09 - Changing How We Live and Eat, One Fig at a Time
- 02/03/09 - Did Child Labor Make Your Shirt? The Story Behind Most Cotton Clothing
- 02/03/09 - Grist Magazine On Giving Eco-Friendly Valentines
- 02/03/09 - Global Hunger a 'Crisis in Democracy'
- 01/30/09 - Sweeten Valentine's Day with Fair Trade Chocolate
- 01/29/09 - Independent Retailers Outperform Chains Over Holidays, National Survey Finds
- 01/28/09 - Farmers Call For Restructuring of Global Food System
- 01/23/09 - Growing Food on the White House Lawn
- 01/21/09 - How to Eat Local in the Winter
- 01/18/09 - Study Says Wild-Harvested Plants and Animals are Now About 20 Percent Smaller
- 01/15/09 - Minnesota to Get $14 Million from Wal-Mart Settlement
- 01/14/09 - Unions Need Unity
- 01/14/09 - Union Digs in Heels in Looming Retail Food Fight with Wal-Mart Canada
- 01/14/09 - Portland Monthly Interviews Organic Food Expert Michael Pollan
- 01/13/09 - Sarah's Social Action Snapshot: Skip Arugula and Eat Well on a Budget
- 01/11/09 - Obama and NAFTA
- 01/09/09 - Employee Free Choice Act Is Under Heavy Attack
- 01/09/09 - Democrats Strike Early With Labor Rights Bills
- 01/05/09 - Food, Farming, & Organics: 2008 By The Numbers
- 01/05/09 - Faced with Concession Demands, Unions Search for Ways to Resist
- 01/05/09 - Why Obama's Green Jobs Plan Might Work
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