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2011 News Stories
- 12/24/11 - The Nasty Truth About the Online Retailers You Probably Used for Your Holiday Shopping
- 12/22/11 - New National Organic Food Buying Club: The Green Polka Dot Box is Open for Organic Business
- 12/17/11 - Local Bookstores Ask Customers To Boycott Amazon Over New Price Check App Offer
- 12/09/11 - Fair Trade USA Certifier Severely Dilutes Standards to Include Non-Fair Trade Products
- 12/08/11 - Walmart Spends Big to Help Anti-Environment Candidates
- 12/07/11 - Put the Fat Cats on a Diet: Stop Buying Tainted Food From Billion Dollar Corporations
- 12/05/11 - Fair Trade Lite: Fair Trade USA Moves Away from Worker Co-ops
- 11/30/11 - 15 Benefits Of Shopping At A Local Farmer's Market
- 11/29/11 - Fair Trade USA Proposes New Ingredients Policy; OCA Says Not Strict Enough
- 11/22/11 - Mic Checking Big Food
- 11/21/11 - Labor Must Choose Between Occupy and the Democrats
- 11/18/11 - Walmart's Progress on Renewables Has Been Way Slow
- 11/18/11 - Occupy Wall Street Regroups, as Union Allies Mobilize
- 11/17/11 - A Local Food Blueprint
- 11/16/11 - Campaign in Davis, California: Stop Whole Foods
- 11/16/11 - How the Supercommittee Could Kill New Farmers Markets
- 11/14/11 - USDA: 'Locally Grown' Food a $4.8 Billion Business
- 11/11/11 - Opulent Sothebys' Appalling Treatment of Its Workers Is a Perfect Symbol of the Out of Touch 1%
- 11/10/11 - Beyond the Banks: Three More Ways to Move Your Money Away from Corporations
- 11/09/11 - Ohio: Koch-Backed Anti-Worker Bill Resoundingly Defeated By Voters
- 11/08/11 - Walmart's Greenwash: Why the Retail Giant is Still Unsustainable
- 11/01/11 - Under Pressure from OCA, Fair Trade USA to Review Accreditation Plans
- 10/28/11 - Tomato Pickers: Trader Joe's Is Rotten
- 10/25/11 - Worst Food Additive Ever? It's in Half of All Foods We Eat and Its Production Destroys Rainforests and Enslaves Children
- 10/20/11 - Fair Trade USA Goes Rogue: New "Standards" Undermine Fair Trade Commitment to Farmers and Consumers
- 10/19/11 - Support Small Coffee Farmers! Stop "Fair Trade" Coffee Plantations
- 10/18/11 - Can a "Fair Trade" Chocolate Bar Contain No Fair Trade Cocoa?
- 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!
- 10/07/11 - Is Walmart Allergic to Pollan?
- 10/06/11 - Organic Farming Thrives, with Demand from Supermarkets
- 10/05/11 - FWP's Statement on Fair Trade USA's Resignation from Fairtrade International (FLO)
- 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
- 10/03/11 - Fair Trade: Even in Tough Times, Growing Fast
- 09/28/11 - Buy Local: 150 Mile Wardrobe
- 09/27/11 - People Know How to Eat Better, They Just Can't Afford It
- 09/27/11 - Canaan Fair Trade and Dr. Bronners: Working Together
- 09/21/11 - Does Walmart's Money Help or Hurt?
- 09/20/11 - Did Walmart Buy Urban Agriculture Group's Silence?
- 09/16/11 - New Report Issued by the Center for Food Safety Highlights Critical Links Among Food Security, Climate Change, Human Rights, and the Economy
- 09/15/11 - Peasant and Indigenous People Have Thousands of Solutions to Confront Climate Change!
- 09/12/11 - Longshoreman's Union Rises to the Challenge
- 09/07/11 - Field of Broken Dreams
- 09/04/11 - Local Grocery Stores Try to Find Traction in Tough Times
- 08/31/11 - Corporate Elites Still Doing a Job on American Workers
- 08/31/11 - Green for Greens: Philadelphia Subsidizes Farmers Markets
- 08/22/11 - 10 Faux Progressive Companies ... with Some Dirty Secrets
- 08/19/11 - Peeling Back the Label
- 08/13/11 - Why Won't Supposedly Progressive Trader Joe's Sign an Agreement Not to Sell Slave Labor Tomatoes?
- 08/12/11 - Jerry Brown 2.0: Friend or Foe of Farmworkers?
- 08/10/11 - Hazards of the Harvest: Children in the Fields
- 07/25/11 - Green Is the New Red: An Interview with Will Potter
- 07/22/11 - Why is Michelle Obama's Food Initiative Promoting Walmart?
- 07/09/11 - Subscription Produce Business Booming in Alaska
- 07/06/11 - Why I am Saying Goodbye to Trader Joe's
- 06/30/11 - Stop Land-grabbing in the Philippines
- 06/30/11 - How the Meat Industry Turned Abuse into a Business Model
- 06/28/11 - NAD Recommends Avon Discontinue Use of Photos That Overstate Fair-Trade Benefits of Purchase
- 06/23/11 - Afghanistan's Last Locavores
- 06/22/11 - Support the California Farmworkers' Rights Bill
- 06/20/11 - The Indignity of Industrial Tomatoes
- 06/20/11 - Top Court Sides with Wal-Mart in Sexual Discrimination Case
- 06/17/11 - Wisconsin Reacts as Anti-Union Bill Is Rubber-Stamped
- 06/15/11 - Finding Justice for Vietnamese Victims of Monsanto's Agent Orange
- 06/14/11 - A Fight Over the Future of Farming: U.N. Ag Group vs. Big Ag
- 06/06/11 - Reverend Malthus and the Future of Food
- 06/06/11 - Tell CA Gov. Jerry Brown to Protect Farm Workers
- 06/06/11 - Sisters' Camelot Fight Hunger the Organic Way
- 06/01/11 - Mom-and-Pop vs. Big-Box Stores in the Food Desert
- 05/31/11 - Spice Up Your Sustainable Pantry: Look for Fair Trade Seasonings
- 05/24/11 - Are Well-Off Progressives Standing in the Way of a Real Movement for Economic Justice?
- 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
- 05/18/11 - Say Earthalujah! Reverend Billy Preaches the Green Gospel
- 05/18/11 - The Cannibal Killers Behind the Perfect Rose
- 05/13/11 - What Happens When Two Girl Scouts Take On The Dirty Palm Oil Industry
- 05/10/11 - Michael Bronner of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps Shares his Thoughts on Fair Trade
- 05/09/11 - How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
- 05/04/11 - Bill Gates Loves Nukes - Another Reason to Boycott Microsoft Products
- 05/03/11 - Will the Real Food Movement Please Stand Up?
- 05/02/11 - Some Developers are Starting to Incorporate a New Feature into Neighborhoods: A Food Supply
- 04/29/11 - Wal-Mart's Shocking Impact on the Lives of Hundreds of Millions of People
- 04/28/11 - Rev. Jesse Jackson: The Takeover of Benton Harbor
- 04/27/11 - Students Fight to Save Innovative Garden-Based Public School in Detroit
- 04/26/11 - Ramps: When is Local not Kosher?
- 04/26/11 - A Star Silicon Valley Investor Puts His Money Where His Mouth is for Sustainable Ag
- 04/26/11 - Food Prices: World Bank Warns Millions Face Poverty
- 04/25/11 - The Growing Food Crisis, and What World Leaders Aren't Doing About It
- 04/25/11 - The Best Ever Explanation Of Why You Should Buy FSC Wood
- 04/21/11 - Supermarkets, Tomatoes and Farmworker Justice
- 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 - The Food Movement's Multiple-Personality Disorder: Let's Move Beyond Foodies and Localists
- 04/15/11 - What Bean-Counting 'Contrarians' Miss About the Local-Food Movement
- 04/15/11 - Miles of Confusion Over What 'Locally Grown' Means
- 04/12/11 - The American Prospect: The Wal-Mart Economy
- 04/04/11 - Startling New Report Shines Light on Farm Labor Conditions - and They Ain't Good
- 04/01/11 - Locally Grown? It All Depends on How You Define it
- 03/31/11 - Farmworker Inventory: The 1.4 Million Exploited Workers who Grow and Harvest America's Food
- 03/30/11 - The Omnivore's Other Dilemma: Expanding Access to Non-Industrial Food
- 03/29/11 - Dark Chocolate's Good and Good for You, a Study Finds
- 03/21/11 - Forget Farmers Markets - I Want to Sell My Pastured Meat at Price Chopper
- 03/19/11 - The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
- 03/18/11 - To Make Local Food More Accessible, Time to Revive Mid-Sized Farms
- 03/18/11 - Localism Index: How Americans Are Beginning to Relocalize the Economy
- 03/12/11 - Oh No, Have We Hit Peak Coffee?
- 03/10/11 - The Spirit of Wisconsin
- 03/09/11 - International Women's Day: Miles to Walk, in the US and Across the Seas
- 03/08/11 - Eco-Farming Can Double Food Output by Poor
- 03/04/11 - Support Government Worker's Battle, or We Will All Suffer the Economic Consequences
- 03/04/11 - Rural Women Protest Use of Toxic Agrochemicals
- 02/28/11 - Fairtrade Beans Do Not Mean a Cup of Coffee is Entirely Ethical
- 02/27/11 - Eaters Unite! Food in Support of Labor, Labor in Support of Food
- 02/27/11 - Rally Photos From AlterNet Readers in DC, Florida, Boston, Philly, Kentucky, Denver, Cali and More!
- 02/27/11 - Rally for the American Dream: Huge Gatherings Nationwide in Solidarity with Wisconsin Democratic Uprising
- 02/24/11 - Room for Debate: Is the World Producing Enough Food?
- 02/22/11 - Local and Organic Food and Farming: The Gold Standard
- 02/22/11 - Hey, Enviros, Greens, Climate Hawks - We All Need to Stand Up for Planned Parenthood
- 02/21/11 - Macadamia Industry Massages Media for Valentines to Cover up Dangerous Pesticide Use
- 02/19/11 - Why Santa Barbara Is the Perfect Example of Our Messed Up Food System
- 02/18/11 - Dear Obamas: Let's Move ... On Food Policy Reform
- 02/18/11 - New Study Reveals Dangers of Prenatal Pesticide Exposure
- 02/15/11 - Why is Trader Joe's Short-Changing Farm-Worker Justice?
- 02/15/11 - Over 9,900 Upset Consumers Tell Fair Trade Certifier 'No Thanks' on Name Change
- 02/14/11 - Dr. Bronner’s Shifts Advocacy Focus From Organic To Fair Trade
- 02/14/11 - Ag Workers Sue Monsanto in Class Action
- 02/14/11 - Roses Are Red, But Not 'Green'
- 02/08/11 - Sweatshops at Sea: Most of Our Goods Arrive Via Ships Where Seafarers Labor in Unfair and Dangerous Conditions
- 02/05/11 - 5 Ways to Help Your Community Go Local
- 02/05/11 - Massive UN-Supported African Palm Plantations Leading to Oppression, Kidnapping and Murder
- 02/03/11 - Send a Letter to the FTC to Stop TransFair's "FairWash" of Personal Care!
- 02/01/11 - OCA, Dr. Bronner's Take Aim At Fair-Trade Certifications With FTC Complaint
- 02/01/11 - To Tell the Truth: Who Owns Fair Trade?
- 01/29/11 - Small Poultry Farmers Grapple with Lack of Slaughterhouses
- 01/26/11 - How Walmart Execs Fleeced the White House on 'Healthy Food'
- 01/25/11 - With Food-System Reform Slowed to a Crawl, Local Initiatives Come to Fore
- 01/24/11 - Anna Lappe: Why We Should Question Walmart's Latest PR Blitz
- 01/21/11 - The Big Greenwash: Wal-Mart Commits to So-Called Healthier Food
- 01/20/11 - Have a Heart Hershey! Go Fair Trade!
- 01/19/11 - Reading the Tea Leaves for the Future of the Global Food Trade
- 01/14/11 - Why the Banana Crisis Doesn't Make Me Stop Worrying and Love GMOs
- 01/13/11 - Worldwatch Report Highlights How Lopsided Discussion is About Africa, Food, and Biotechnology
- 01/13/11 - Buying Clubs of Fresh Produce Gaining Popularity
- 01/10/11 - "Earth to TransFair: Fair Trade is a Movement Not a Brand!": Coalition Forms to Stop Rebranding of TransFair as "Fair Trade USA"
- 01/10/11 - Stop TransFair's "FairWash" of Personal Care!
- 01/09/11 - Starbucks Ignores Customer Demands for More Fair Trade Coffee
- 01/07/11 - How to Get Your City to Allow Backyard Chickens
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