America’s farmworkers deserve better. Farmworkers, farmers and their organizations around the country have been singing the same tune for years on the urgent need for immigration reform. That harmony turns to discord as soon as ...
When intellectual property laws that protect companies conflict with the rights of farmers to plant their fields, who should win? (By Karine Eliane Peschard, The Conversation) A Brazilian appeals court has decided in favor of ...
“Agricultural choices must be made by these inescapable standards: the ecological health of the farm and the economic health of the farmer.” —Wendell Berry For almost five decades, organic farming associations like the Northeast Organic ...
Neoliberal free-trade policies that favor aggregated seed, food and chemical corporations prevent family-scale farms that use regenerative practices from profiting. We need a fair Green New Deal now. In February, a dairy farmer friend sent ...
“Food is no longer valued for its ability to sustain life, but only for its ability to generate profits.” Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a sweeping and comprehensive plan to transform American agriculture on Sunday, centered ...
Tomasi suffered from a serious illness due to his exposure to pesticides and despite his physical pain, raised his voice to denounce the multimillionaire agribusiness companies responsible. (NewsClick) Fabián Tomasi, who contracted severe toxic polyneuropathy ...
(Beyond Pesticides) A report released this summer by the nonprofit group The Cornucopia Institute helps consumers avoid ‘factory farmed’ dairy products in light of disturbing revelations uncovered in a 2017 Washington Post investigation of major organic brands. ...
Activists from the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) marched and protested at Petaluma Farms in Sonoma County, California for the second time in recent months after receiving “horrifying footage of birds rotting to ...
(BeyondPesticides) A legal complaint filed by a Kansas farmer claims industry giant, Monsanto, knew its new dicamba-formulated product would harm other crops, but marketed and sold it anyway, damaging thousands of acres of crops. The lawsuit, filed by ...
Hawaii has banned the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, becoming the first U.S. state to do so, thanks to pressure from a multi-year grassroots campaign. The movement sprung out of growing health concerns for children ...
President Donald Trump has nominated Scott Hutchins to become the chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Hutchins was a former executive at the crop protection division of the Dow Chemical Company (DCC). ...
(Beyond Pesticides) Ecologically-based farming systems contain far fewer pests and generate much higher profits than their conventional, chemical-based counterparts according to research published in the journal PeerJ earlier this year by scientists at South Dakota State University ...
A body of evidence from over 100 individual experiments included in 23 combined studies reveals that pesticides are dumbing down bees. A new study analyzed years of bee evidence and found 23 studies related to ...
A new Mexican firm, Applied Biotech, has developed a natural pesticide from molecules that make chili peppers hot. Capsaicinoids are the molecules that give chili peppers their heat, and the Mexican startup has harvested this chemical ...
(MPN.com, by Whitney Webb) MEMPHIS – Several African-American farmers from Memphis, Tennessee are suing a seed company they claim intentionally sold them defective soybean seeds in a bid to put them out of business. According ...
A joint report conducted by IowaWatch and with Science in the Media, a University of Northern Iowa project, reveals that 444,559 students and teachers are at risk of pesticide exposure and poisoning in Iowa. Local ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a study revealing that American farmers are committing suicide at rates significantly above the average population. The data showed that the suicide rate among farmers ...
Bulgarian rose petals are being produced faster than the nation’s rose oil industry can sell then, causing a dramatic drop in price that has impacted farmers during the 2018 harvest. Flower farmers who sell products ...
In a battle over property rights, Florida courts rule in government’s favor to ban “the cultivation of plants to be eaten as part of a meal, as opposed to the cultivation of plants for ornamental reasons.” ...
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