Agribusiness

Child Labor and Agribusiness Churn Washington's Food Fight

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Child Labor, Agriculture, Department of Labor, Agribusiness, Child Labor Protection, Child Labor Regulation, Migrant Children, Migrant Families, Agricultural Labor Reform, Child Labor Laws, Politics News

Child farmworker struggles are symptoms of a blight that's buried by the spin of corporate agriculture: the politics of the food system are spoiled rotten.

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Working Kids... to Disability and Death

Bruce Lesley | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Department of Labor, Dolores Huerta, Agribusiness, Workplace Safety, Child Labor Laws, Farming, CARE Act, Labor Laws, Agricultural Policy, Impact News

According to a report in the Journal of Pediatrics, approximately 26,650 youth are injured on farms every year. Of these injuries, more than 3,700 require hospitalization. Now, passing the CARE Act is even more important.

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Feeding the World Through Smarter Agriculture

Mark Tercek | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Farming, The Nature Conservancy, Mississippi River, Green News, Cargill, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Conservation, Fortune Brainstorm Green, Mark Tercek, Food Security, Impact News

How can we meet the world's increasing demands for food, water and energy without degrading the natural systems we depend on for survival?

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Chemical Warfare

Robert Koehler | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Agribusiness, Domination Culture, Herbicide, Monoculture, War on Terror, Side Effects, Prescription Drugs, Soldiers, Military, Soldiers Antidepressents, Soldiers Medication, Soldiers Drugs, Politics News

To fight our insane wars, we're wrecking our soldiers' ability to live with themselves and function in society, then regulating what's left of them with chemicals, which often make things immeasurably worse.

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Getting Clear About Voting Independent

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Big Pharma, Justice-Party, Leadership, Third Party, Abetterworld, Fukushima, Mayor, Nuclear Power, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Guantanamo, Two Party System, Independent Party, Clean Energy, Obama, Health Insurance, Green Energy, Presidential Debates, Banking Industry, Barack Obama, Rocky Anderson 2012, Chernobyl, Politics, Dr. John Hagelin, Ross Perot, Green Technology, Agribusiness, Banking Crisis, Constitution, Rocky Anderson, Ralph Nader, Voting, Politics News

What matters is having a leader, not a politician, assume political office. And so I suggest that people look to break out of the two-party trance and take on a pro-active role in taking your government back to serve You, your family, your friends, your community.

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Growth With Resilience: An Opportunity for African Agriculture

Professor Sir Gordon Conway | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: G20 Summit, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Economic Development, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Agribusiness, Growth, g20, Business News

Many African countries are growing fast. African GDP is growing at about 6% per year and over the past decade, 6 of the world's 10 fastest grow¬ing countries were African. But this growth remains fragile.

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The Farm Subsidy Jackpot

Donald Carr | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Agribusiness, Congress, Lottery, Farm Subsidies, Food Stamps, SNAP Program, Farm Bill, Politics News

Would critics of SNAP exhibit the same level of outrage if they learned that several Roby, Texas, cotton farmers shared a $46 million jackpot in 1996 and still receive hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece in federal subsidies for years after?

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Tough Love for Big Agribusiness

Alex Formuzis | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Agribusiness, Agriculture and Communications Symposium, Ken Cook, Environmental Working Group, Video, Green News

Earlier this month, Environmental Working Group president Ken Cook gave some tough love to a packed room of chemical agribusiness representatives. The...

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Part II: Antibiotics Injected Directly Into Eggs and Other Big Pharma Secrets

Martha Rosenberg | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Antibiotics Food, Antibiotics, Big Pharma, Agribusiness, Health News, Pharma, Healthy Living News

It was not a great surprise that the FDA's new cephalosporin livestock rules have the Agribusiness Seal of Approval. It was Big Pharma and Agribusiness lobbying that killed its stronger cephalosporin rules issued four years after.

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Lawmakers Caught In Tricky Situation, Key Group Prepares For The Worst

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Farm Bill 2012, Farm Bill, Video, Congress, 2012 Election, Tom Vilsack, Pat Roberts, Agriculture, President Obama, George W. Bush, Iowa Caucuses, Elections 2012, Agribusiness, Debbie Stabenow, Senate Agriculture Committee, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Promoting farm subsidies was once a no-brainer for rural members of Congress seeking re-election. This year, it's a bit trickier. As la...

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Dems Say Of GOP Immigration Proposals: 'It Is The Greatest Deal Of Hypocrisy'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.04.2012

Democrats in Kansas are describing new proposals to recruit undocumented workers for the state's agriculture industry as "hypocrisy" and "profiteering...

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Mega Food Corporation Cuts 1,000 Jobs

AP | DAVID MERCER and CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Agribusiness, Archer Daniels Midland Job Cuts, Patricia Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland Layoffs, Archer Daniels Midland, Food Industry, Video, Food News

DECATUR, Ill. — Agribusiness conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland Co. announced plans Wednesday to cut 1,000 mostly salaried jobs as it navigates...

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Five Food Predictions for 2012

Andrew Stout | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Organic Farming, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Food Policy, Organic Food, Obesity, Food Politics, Food News

For every step forward, the good food movement continues to face unique challenges and unforeseen resistance from the industrial food complex. Here are a few food trends we can expect to see, hear, read or eat more of in 2012.

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For All of Us: Stuff a Pumpkin, Please

Kathy Stevens | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Agribusiness, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian Recipes, Turkey, Thanksgiving Commentary, Climate Change, Thanksgiving, Vegan, Food News

Given the chance to thrive, "food" animals exhibit virtually every emotion and many behaviors some of us humans consider "ours" alone: joy, sadness, anger, impatience, contentment, jealousy, inquisitiveness, affection... and so on.

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Occupy the Food System!

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Local Food Movement, Local Food Systems, Occupy Wall Street, Food Movement, Sustainable Food, Food Politics, Agribusiness, Occupy Movement, Food News

The rules and institutions governing our food system -- Wall Street, the U.S. Farm Bill, the World Trade Organization and the USDA -- all favor the global monopolies controlling the world's seeds, food processing, distribution and retail.

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Ten Rescued; Ten Billion More in Need

Kathy Stevens | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Animal Rescue, Animal Suffering, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Vegan, Agribusiness, Farm Animals, Animals, Impact News

For me, healing the physical and emotional scars inflicted on an animal continues to be the most deeply satisfying part of Catskill Animal Sanctuary's work.

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Technology's Place in Transforming Agriculture

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Food, Supply Chain, Community Supported Agriculture, Farming, Farmers Markets, Agriculture, Farming Business, Agriculture Business, Agribusiness, Food Suppliers, Food Industry, Business News

The distended relationship between farms and individuals is the fundamental problem in the food system we've inherited. Supply chains and the corporate cultures that house them keep information isolated.

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Getting Sick on Pesticides Big Ag Can't Live Without

Alex Formuzis | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Parathion, Agribusiness, Organic Farming, Pesticides, Aldicarb, Organic Food, Chlorpyrifos, Green News

Pesticides are engineered to kill living organisms by destroying the nervous system of the insects they target. They can't be good for human health either. Here's a gallery of some of the most worrisome.

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No Justice for Animals

Mikko Alanne | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Agribusiness, Finland, Animal Rights, Undercover Investigation, Justice for Animals, Animal Cruelty, Pigs, Saila Kivelä, Karry Hedberg, Green News

Instead of charging a single pig factory farmer with cruelty to animals, Finnish authorities are prosecuting the two activists who made the undercover videos, which were exposed to the public.

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Are Wolves the Real Killers? Feds Count Livestock Losses Differently in the Northern Rockies

Wendy Keefover-Ring | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Predator Control, Usda, Humane, Agribusiness, Conservation, Wildlife Services, Wolf Watchers, Wolves, Green News

Despite their immense importance, wolves are relentlessly persecuted by the livestock industry. These producers, as we show here, inflate the numbers of livestock losses from wolves.

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Agricultural Policy Should Fuel Health, Not Epidemics!

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: American Heart Association, Fast Food, Congress, USDA Nutrition Programs, Type 2 Diabetes, Health Care Costs, Agriculture, USDA Policy, Subsidies, Agriculture Reform, Elizabeth Kucinich, Federal Budget, Agricultural Subsidies, Farm Bill, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 2012 Farm Bill, House Agriculture Committee, Federal Budget Deficit, Prevention, Health, Food Politics, Agriculture Subsidies, Food, Usda, Pcrm, Medical Costs, Diabetes, Farm Subsidies, Heart Disease, Diabetes Prevention, Vegetarian, Vegan, Agribusiness, Veganism, Fruit, Industrial Agriculture, Meat, House Appropriations Committee, Preventative Healthcare, Food Policy Agenda, Appropriations, Death, Doctors, Cholesterol, Healthy Diet, Diet, Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Diets, Hal Rogers, Obesity, Politics News

In 2009, USDA spent more than twice as much buying meat and dairy as it did on fruits and vegetables. What that means is that the USDA used taxpayers' money to buy about $1.5 billion worth of meat and dairy.

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Sustainability is for People, Too: Why We Need Fair Labor Rights in Organic Farming

Jim Cochran | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Organic Farming, Farming, Local Food, Ozone Layer, Strawberries, Assembly Line, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Sustainability, Agribusiness, Sustainable Farming, Video, Green News

Our global, industrial food system is causing a slow erosion of the rich complexity that used to exist in farming communities around the world.

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Face of a Giant Agribusiness

Noah Hultgren | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Farming, Agribusiness, Small Business, Usda, Family Farms, Farmers, Business News

According to some, I am a giant agribusiness -- the worst kind of factory farmer. But there's a lot more to this story than a 10-second sound bite would let on.

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Farm Subsidies: A Useful Sacrifice in the Budget Debate

Patrick Sharma | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Agribusiness, Farm Subsidies, Federal Deficit, Budget, Agriculture, Agricultural Policy, Politics News

Since being introduced to help cope with the Great Depression, farm subsidies have devolved into a hodgepodge of price supports, direct payments, insurance programs, tax loopholes and low-interest loans for wealthy farmers and agribusiness.

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Watching the Future Wash Away

Donald Carr | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Farming, Soil, Toxic, Run Off, Corn, Agriculture, Dead Zone, Conservation, Erosion, Chemicals, Corn Belt, Commodity Crop, Farm, Water, Agribusiness, Soybeans, Farm Subsidies, Usda, Farm Bill, Crp, Eqip, Green News

Bad federal policy and intensifying storms are washing away the rich dark soils in the Midwest that made this country an agricultural powerhouse and that remain the essential foundation of a healthy and sustainable food system in the future.

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