Agriculture

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Animals on the Hill, and in The Hill

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Doyle, The Hill, Animal Welfare, David Scott, Ginnifer Goodwin, Agriculture, Randy Neugebauer, Animals, Mary Landrieu, David Vitter, Jean Schmidt, Jim Moran, Elton Gallegly, Animal Rights, Big Ag, Food Inc., Fast Food Nation, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Politics News

The lawmakers doing the bidding for Big Agribusiness simply don't get that the American public wants to see all animals treated humanely, including animals raised for food.

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Trucks, Drugs and NAFTA: Time for Congress to do the Right Thing

Gary Shapiro | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Mexico did not take lightly to the U.S. closing our border to their trucks -- that's why they're called "trade wars."

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Congress Oughta Protect Otters

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Raul Grijalva, Nick Rahall, Marine Life, California, Sam Farr, Agriculture, Sea Otters, Oceans, Pollution, Animals, Otters, Madeleine Bordallo, Politics News

As a keystone species, the otters play a vitally important role in maintaining the health of California's central coast marine ecosystem.

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Putting a Hold on Compassion

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Saxby Chambliss, Animals, Cass Sunstein, Confirmation Hearings, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Agriculture, Politics News

Politicians should consider a compassionate concern for animals to be a personal and even political asset for candidates for major executive offices.

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Women Can Plow Under A Global Hunger Crisis

Ritu Sharma | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Developing Countries, Women Farmers, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Gender, Third World Farming, World News

This week, 4 million more people worldwide will go to bed hungry. Seven out of 10 of them are women.

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G-8 Promises $20 Billion in Agricultural Aid: Real Change or Business as Usual?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, G8, Gmos, Agricultural Development, Agriculture, Africa, Sustainability, Group-of-8, Food Aid, International, Barack Obama, Food Security, Green News

One can't help but wonder if by requesting this money from the G8 in the name of charity we are instead trying to promote our own economy.

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Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream

Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: fora.tv, Michael Pollan, Clean Coal, Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energy, Steven Chu, Agriculture, Blaise Zerega, Futuregen, Clean Energy, Coal, Australia, Climate Change, Australia Climate Change, Green News

There's much to love about carbon capture, in theory. But carbon capture continues our dependence on coal-fired power plants, and does little to change the status quo.

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Making Sure Our Antibiotics Work

Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, House of Representatives, Superbugs, Mrsa, Agriculture, Antibiotics, Louise Slaughter, Agribusiness, Industrial Agriculture, Pamta, Politics News

We are losing the ability to treat human infections and diseases because we have misused one of the greatest scientific products ever created.

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Fresh's Director and Producer, Ana Joanes, Explains the Difficulty of Filming a Documentary and What Sustainability Means

Louise McCready | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Michael Moore, Fresh, Agriculture, Joel Salatin, Food, Sustainability, Will Allen, Ana Joanes, Food Tag, Green News

Ana Joanes: When confronted with such large and complex problems, it's hard to see the meaning of small, individual actions. I embarked on the making of Fresh to recapture a sense of agency.

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Let's Not Go Backwards on Biofuels: Fixing the Climate Bill's Biofuels Provisions

Frances Beinecke | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Biomass, Biofuels, Biofuel, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Ethanol, Deforestation, Global Warming, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News

If we can repeal the last-minute biofuels amendments to ACES, we can instill a belief that biofuels done right can be a real, American-grown, global warming solution.

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Loving the Ladies: More Female Farmers Sprout Up Nationwide

washingtonpost.com | Lori Aratani | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Small Farmers, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Women Farmers, Agriculture, Farmers, Food, Green News

While men tend to run larger farms focused on such commodity crops as soybeans and wheat, women tend to run smaller, more specialized enterprises sell...

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Sustainable Food Ripe for Entrepreneurs to Drive Forward

Rob Smart | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Farms, Innovation, Investments, Entrepeneurship, Retail Sales, Cooking, Food, Agriculture, Trends, Sustainability, Business, Consumers, Green News

While perhaps it's not "broken," America's industrial food system has developed side effects that are accelerating in severity; diet-related health and environmental issues can no longer be ignored.

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Closing the Farm to Plate Knowledge Gap

Rob Smart | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Sustainable Food, Lobbyists, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Industrial Food System, Obesity, Industrial Agriculture, Green News

Consumer advocates for sustainable, healthy food are fighting with farmers, not because either picked a fight with the other, but because the knowledge gap between them has grown so expansive.

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Could This Be Africa's Next Cash Crop?

Lola Olley | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, Developing World, Africa, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Bill-and-Melinda-Gates-Foundation, Burundi, Kenya, Congo, Rwanda, World News

Cassava can be made into everything from flour to tapioca and could create a positive domino effect in Africa with economic empowerment leading to a reduced need for foreign food aid.

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Thinking Outside the Box on Health Care Reform

Barry Sears | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Diet Tips, Dieting, Corn, Health, Big Corn, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Diet, Health Care, Industrial Agriculture, Living News

With all the rhetoric about health care reform, no one seems to have asked the question, "Why are Americans so sick in the first place?"

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Kristof On "Food Inc.": You May Not Eat For A Week

NYT | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Nicholas Kristof, Food Inc, Agriculture, Food, Kristof Food Inc, Green News

It was particularly unnerving to see leftover animal bits washed over with ammonia and ground into "hamburger filler." If you happen to be eating a ha...

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Food, Inc.'s Robert Kenner Discusses What Gives Him Goosebumps, and What Gives Him Hope

Louise McCready | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Robert Kenner gives us a twenty-first century Upton-Sinclair-look at the industrial food system in his latest film, Food, Inc., and not since The Jungle has the food in the U.S. seemed so unsafe.

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Cap and Trade Part 4: Forests, Farms, and Offsets

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Offsets, Cap and Trade, Economics, Climate, Climate Change, Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Ecosystems, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Forests, Global Warming, Green News

Many people have a hard time accepting that one can emit CO2 from a power plant in Ohio and offset those emissions by capturing methane on a North Carolina hog farm.

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Food, Inc.: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In (Video)

Katherine Goldstein | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Robert Kenner, Movie Reviews Food Inc Reviews, Food Inc., Agriculture, Food-Inc-Movie, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Inc., Food and Environment, Green News

Do you happen to eat food? Then this movie's for you. Check out what HuffPost bloggers are saying about the film, and watch the trailer.

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Sustainable Agriculture Is Pro-Technology Within a Cyclical Model

Paula Crossfield | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Technology, Organic, Big Ag, Food Politics, Agriculture, Green News

Let's finally put to bed the binary argument that sustainable agriculture proponents are all about hand tools and hard labor for little returns. We like technology, just not technology-worship.

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More Bang for Your Food Buck

Stefan Aschan | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Community Shared Agriculture, Food Safety, Sustainable Agriculture, Michelle Obama, Consumer Spending, Agriculture, Living News

Although Michelle Obama has a plot for a huge vegetable garden, not all of us have the time, place or space to do the same. If you are in this situation, why not try "Community Shared Agriculture?"

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Future Shock

Kathy Freston | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Vegetarian, President Obama, Agriculture, Vegan, Sustainable Agriculture, Animals, Vegetarianism, Living News

Dateline: June of the year 2109, in a high school social sciences class in Boise, Idaho.

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Still Searching For A Fruitful Summer Internship? Consider Farming

nytimes.com | Kim Severson | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Internships, Organic Farming, Farming, Careers, Jobs, Organic Internships, Health, Agriculture, Living News

They come armed with little more than soft hands and dog-eared copies of Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma," which takes a dim view of industri...

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Fresh -- New Thinking About What We're Eating

Ana Joanes | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Food Matters, Michael Pollan, Eating Matters, Fresh, Agriculture, Farmers, Green News

It is not only the pig whose pig-ness we need to respect, but the Ana-ness of Ana. By learning to respect and embrace the truth of who I am, I too can find my place and role in this world.

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