MN Progressive Project Annex

And how outbreaks of food contamination will keep going, until corporations are forced to change their ways. To maximize returns, these com...

This is being underreported in “legacy” media, of course. A large group of agriculture experts warned that US farms are taking a financial ...

I'm not sure how this will play out in the courts, if it happens. The Trump administration is proposing a significant change to one of ...

Many of us didn't need a study to know full well this is happening. But it's good to have it documented and proved. From 2008 to 20...

Talk about Big Ag capture Last May, the United Nations (U.N.) released the first draft of a global plan to tackle antibiotic resistance tha...

Sone state ag commissioners are OK. Some aren't. This is from an article that goes into depth on the matter. America’s 50 state agricul...

There's been no real progress. Big Ag, among others, has seen to that. The Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force, a collaboration of state,...

The UN report linked in the quoted story actually covers all agriculture worldwide. But when you look at the second paragraph below, you kno...

There is plenty of both good and bad in this report. Industrial animal agriculture is a well-documented and significant source of greenhous...

I get that cows, people, and everything else living on the other side of Earth have to eat, too. But there are far better options, all aroun...

The article is from mid-December. I suspect there are other factors here, beyond what's noted therein. Namely, that like a lot of countr...

That this has been going on with economics programs is well documented. It's not ending there. Since 2010, corporations have given at l...

There's probably nothing wrong with it that I know of, in context. But the real, mega-problem is called "Big Ag." And yet whi...

This article is actually wide-ranging, with plenty of positive stuff in it. It just so happens that I’m quoting this: Industry representati...

This is no surprise. Indeed, sadly predictable. According to an anonymous inside source, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGR...

After reading this, I don't know what might happen. In the last three decades, this has become more acute. Economic consolidation acros...

There is a lot of money, and therefore power, at stake. And that's what really matters, right? Agroecology is at a crossroads. The farm...

But unfortunately probably won't get, any time soon. Worth trying for, though. But then came the somehow inevitable yet untenable claim...

First, though, I'm noting that the fervent, eloquent tsunami of criticism of Tom Vilsack as the pick for Ag Secretary is entirely valid....

Yesterday I had occasion to take a back roads drive, mostly through Benton and Morrison Counties. Plenty of country folks are still displayi...