Agriculture

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Big Ag Takes Aim at Cuban Embargo

Barth Anderson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kansas, Fidel Castro, Cuban Embargo, Jerry Moran, Agriculture, Rosa DeLauro, Collin Peterson, Cuba, Barack Obama, Politics News

You have to give Big Ag its due: Big Soy and friends are pushing hard to end the ridiculous US embargo of Cuba.

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Eating Animals: A Book to Digest

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Books, Food Politics, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Foer's taken a three-year respite from writing fiction to probe the question of whether we should eat animals -- with this research and writing task triggered by his meditation on what to feed his first child.

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Papaya Hermaphrodites Sought By Farmers, Researchers

LA Times | Jodi S. Cohen | Posted 11.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Papaya Sex Changes, Male Papayas, Papaya Gender, Agriculture, Ray Ming, University of Illinois, Hermaphroditic Papayas, Female Papayas, Papayas, National Science Foundation, Nsf, Fruit, Farmers, Food, Hermaphrodite Papayas, Reasearch, Fruit Gender, Green News

Papayas, it turns out, have not just one but three sexes: male, female and hermaphrodite. The third produces the yummy fruit, but the male and females...

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Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Funds, Fast Food, Congress, Nhma, Snapple, Senate Finance Committee, Lobbyists, Agriculture, American Beverage Association, Soda Tax, Food Loby, Funding, Hispanics, National Corn Growers Association, Health Insurance, Policy, National Hispanic Medical Associaiton, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Coca-Cola, Soft Drinks, Chuck Grassley, Dr. Pepper, Food Politics, Health Care, Beverage Tax, Aba, Lobbying, Corn, Americans Against Food Taxes, Supermarkets, Coke, Alex Padilla, Pepsi, Corn Syrup, Nutrition, Grocery Stores, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Green News

By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...

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Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer Talks To Ellen About His New Book (VIDEO)

Posted 11.04.2009 | Books

Read More: Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Factory Farming, Environmentalists, Eating Meat, Agriculture, Parenting, New Books, Global Warming, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Bestsellers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ellen Degeneres, Foer Eating Animals, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Food Politics, Books, Farming, Books News

Jonathan Safran Foer spoke with Ellen Degeneres today about his new book, Eating Animals, which uncovers the horrible world of factory farming. (Check...

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Looking for a Greener Revolution: Visit to AGRA

Bernard Pollack | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Agriculture, Bernard Pollack, Africa, Worldwatch Institute, Agra, Kenya, Danielle Nierenberg, World News

By building up the private sector and creating a system of agro-dealers to distribute fertilizer, AGRA is hoping to reduce the gap between farmers and inputs in Kenya.

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What's Next For Jonathan Safran Foer And Eating Animals?

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Natalie Portman, Animal Cruelty, Everything Is Illuminated, Book Reviews, Natalie Portman Eating Animals, Eating Meat, Agriculture, New Books, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Free Range, Jonathan Safran Foer, Vegetarian, Book Review, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Food Politics, Safran Foer Eating Animals, Books, Farming, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Factory Farms, Bestsellers, Books News

Beginning the week of October 26, 2009, we ran a series of reviews on HuffPost Books on Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. It was a surp...

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Ethiopian Coffee Beans for the Caffeine Addicted, Liberal "Latte" Drinker

Bernard Pollack | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Coffee, Bernard Pollack, Africa, Agriculture, Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg, Ethiopia, Sustainable, World News

Coffee "collectors" in Gima, Ethiopia don't plant coffee bushes, but pick the beans from wild plants. While this might be the most eco-friendly type of coffee production, it's not very lucrative.

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Eating Animals: Why Eating Matters

Kathy Freston | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books

If ever there was a book that could profoundly affect our lives at the most fundamental level, this one is it.

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Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer's New Book Asks Why Don't We Eat Pets?

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Sustainable Agriculture, The Jungle, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Agriculture, Upton Sinclair, Books, Farming, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer, Factory Farms, Chickens, Pets, Livestock, Horses, Euthanize, Politics, Cats, Antibiotics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dogs, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, Books News

Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.

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We Can't Reform Health Care without Reforming Food

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.

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A New Family Farmer (Video)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Mike Paine, Usda, Financing, Agriculture, Beginning-Farmers, Center for Rural Affairs, Purchase Farmland, Family-Farmer, Green News

According to the latest (2007) USDA Census data compiled by the National Agriculture Statistics Service, roughly 4 million family farms have been lost since the 1930's.

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Cost of Beer Unlikely To Fall Despite Plummeting Hops Prices, Crop Surplus

oregonlive.com | John Foyston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Farming, Beer, Agriculture, Washington, Crop Shortage, Oregon, Hops, Harvesting, Business News

The hops shortage of 2007 is over, buried in a glut of unsold hops. Don't expect craft beer prices to follow -- the $5 pint and $9 six-pack are likely...

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The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan

Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Veganism, Natalie Portman, Farming, Everything Is Illuminated, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Books, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Omnivore's Dilemma, New Books, Vegetarianism, Michael Pollan, Farms, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Natalie Portman Vegan, Natalie Portman Vegetarian, Portman, Jonathan Foer, Thanksgiving, Books News

Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Controversial New Book, Eating Animals

Aaron Gross | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Farming, Everything Is Illuminated, Animal Cruelty, Factory Farming, Animal Rights, Books, Agriculture, Swine Flu, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, New Books, New Nonfiction, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, H1n1, Jonathan Safran Foer, Site:www.huffingtonpost.com Natalie Portman Jonathan Safran Foers Eat 334 407, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Natalie Portman: Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Read More At: Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Aaron-Gross/Jonathan-Safran-Foers-con_b_333698.Html, Safran Foer, Thanksgiving, Books News

Over the next weeks Huffington Post will feature a diverse range of responses to Jonathan Safran Foer's controversial new work of non-fiction, Eating Animals.

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A New Direction on Research at the USDA? The Experts Weigh In

Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Research, Sustainable Food, Tom Vilsack, Agriculture, Food Safety, Food Security, Csrees, Nifa, Green News

After Tom Vilsack's speech, I've reached out to some key thinkers on agriculture to find out what they would like the USDA's new research body, NIFA, to be focusing on. Here are their answers.

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Education Matters

Joel Epstein | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: McDermont Field House, Charity, Citrus, Education, Agriculture, Water, Los Angeles, Central Valley, Chelsea Piers, California, Living News

I first visited Lindsay, California about four years ago when, as my company's director of charitable giving, I was looking to make an educational investment in a local elementary school.

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Green Group Says U.S. Climate Bill Won't Hurt Farms

cnbc.com | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, American Agriculture, Global Warming, u.s. Climate Change, Agriculture, Farmers, U.S. Climate Bill, Green News

Global warming poses more of a threat to U.S. farm incomes than does the climate change bill passed by the U.S. House, which will have a "negligible" ...

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Agriculture Lobbyists Not Happy With Climate Change Legislation

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Lobbyblog, Climate Change Legislation, Agriculture, Business News

The Hill reports that the agriculture lobby is troubled by aspects of the Senate climate change bill. The American Farm Bureau and the National Corn ...

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E. Coli: Woman Paralyzed After Severe Food Poisoning; The Unsafe System, Meat

The New York Times | Michael Moss | Posted 10.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Brain Damage, Meat Processors, Food, Agriculture, Regulation, E. Coli, Grocers, Usda, Food Poisoning, Red Meet, Hamburger, E Coli, Severe Food Poisoning, Beef Processors, Health, Ground Beef, Beef, O157:H7, Cargill, Business, Restaurants, Frozen Hamburgers, Burger, Cattle, Ecoli, Food Safety, Costco, Bad Hamburger, Trimmings, Paralyzed, USDA Policy, Food Safety Regulation, Green News

Stephanie Smith, a children's dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that firstday, and she finished...

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Mr. Smith Plays the Farm Card

Rob Smart | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Farms, Industrial Food, Farmers, Food, Agriculture, Science, Fertilizers, Genetically Modified Food, Capitalism, Chemicals, Green News

Right from the start, Mr. Smith works hard to make "good food" advocates out to be a powerful force hellbent on destroying our abundant food system.

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Farmer Kills 83,000 Rats And Wins Color TV

Telegraph | Ben Leach | Posted 10.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Poverty, South East Asia, Crops, Agriculture, Farmers, Food, Pests, Rats, Ministry of Agriculture, Green News

Mokhairul Islam, 40, won a first prize of a colour television for killing some 83,450 rats in the past nine months in Gazipur district near the South ...

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Global Harvest Initiative Seeks Not to Feed People, But to Bolster Big Agriculture's Profits

Paula Crossfield | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Dupont, Hunger, Monsanto, Global Harvest Initiative, Dan Glickman, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Richard Lugar, Adm, Norman Borlaug, Green News

Hunger looks on the surface to be the most bipartisan policy issue on our collective plates. We can all agree to the fact that hunger today is a global tragedy. But from there the discussion diverges.

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First Day Of Fall 2009: See Harvest Photos!

Huffington Post | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Fall Equinox, India, Lake Constance, France, Bulgaria, Slidehuge, Slidepoll, Agriculture, Autumn, First Day of Fall, Grapes, Wheat, Fall Starts, Germany, Middle America, September 22 2009, Pumpkins, Sugar-Beets, Tobacco, Fall September 22 2009, September 22 First Day of Fall, Radishes, What's the First Day of Fall, Farming, Afghanistan, Crops, Corn, Apples, Fall 2009, Harvesting, Maine, Rice, Local Food, Green News, Autumn Equinox, Food, Vietnam, Belarus, Slideshow, Green News

With the first day of fall upon us, we put together a tribute to the autumn harvest. From grapes and tobacco found in Bulgaria to coconuts from India...

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