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Criminally Negligent Homicide: The Legacy of Wealthy Nations That Allow Millions to Die

Dan Silverstein | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Undp, Wfp, Fao, Yum! Brands, World Bank, TNT Group, Food for Peace, International Food Policy Research Institute, Howard Buffet, Ethiopia, The Green Revolution, Farm Bill, Josette Sheeran, Spencer Bachus, Roger Thurow, Archbold OH, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Scott Kilman, World Food Programme, Usaid, Norman Borlaug, Puchase for Progress, Alliance to End Hunger, Agra, Universities Fighting World Hunger, Business News
Dan Silverstein

Two award-winning reporters have collaborated on a new book entitledEnough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. It is a page turner. Unless you simply don't give a damn, this is a must read.

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Bearing Witness 2.0: Economy Forces One Family Business To Move Jobs Overseas

Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Outsourcing, Texas, Global Recession, Farm Bill, Bearing Witness 2.0, Business News

Sarah Atkinson Ramirez shared her story with HuffPost. Her story affect her entire town, a town that her family helped build. Sarah runs the Atkinso...

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The Payoff Patriots

Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Federal Bailouts, Farm Bill, Federal Budget Deficit, Corn, Health Care Reform, Agribusiness, Health Care, Federal Budget, Politics News
Vanessa Carmichael

While many in the heartland fashion themselves as fiscally conservative, the reality of federal spending tells a different story.

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Obama's Farm Team

William S. Becker | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Farm Bill, Climate, Crops, Water, Soils, Food, Sustainability, Obama, Agriculture Policy, Green News
William S. Becker

Obama is sowing the seeds for that new era of rural prosperity, but it will be up to rural America to bring in the harvest.

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Change We Can Believe In: Obama's Food Agenda

Steve Ettlinger | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Processed Food, Farm Bill, Obama Administration, Food Policy, Agriculture Dept., Vilsack, Health, Merrigan, Green News
Steve Ettlinger

Let's take inspiration from the public's interest in the food details on the inaugural web page and the hoopla around the new gardens and build on the momentum. Food policy is a change we can believe in.

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The Battle Over Sliced Apples: New York Senators Gillibrand and Aubertine Take Secretary Vilsack to Task on School Food

Paula Crossfield | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Processed Food, Secretary of Agriculture, Farm Bill, Food Access, Tom Vilsack, New Administration, School Food, Food Policy, Usda, Kirsten Gillibrand, Darrel Aubertine, Value-Added, Green News
Paula Crossfield

No, Gillibrand and Aubertine aren't lobbying for the Corn Refiners Association -- they are pushing for local food.

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Moving Forward for Farm Animals

Erin Williams | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Vegetarian, Factory Farming, California, Animlas, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Proposition 2, Animal Slaughter, Farm Bill, Animal Welfare, Green News, Animla Rights, Green Policy, Living News
Erin Williams

In 2008, Americans sent an unmistakable signal to Big Agribusiness that we will not tolerate the kinds of animal cruelty that had become standard. In 2009, let's work to accomplish even more.

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Ripe for Change?

Dan Imhoff | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Farm Bill, Wendell Berry, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Obama, Food Democracy, Sustainable, Sustainability, Green News
Dan Imhoff

People want our unhealthy food and agriculture system made healthy. And it doesn't look like we'll be giving up any time soon.

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'Yes We Can' Create a Sane Food Policy in the U.S.

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charlie Stenholm, Whole Foods, Time Magazine, Pew Foundation, Center for Public Integrity, John Carlin, Pew Commission, Larry Summers, Joe Klein, Barack Obama, Clinton Administration, Farm Bill, Michael Pollan, John Salazar, Colin Peterson, Union of Concerned Scientists, Dwight Eisenhower, Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, John Podesta, Rosa DeLauro, Obama Transition, National Economic Council, Eric Schlosser, Bill Moyers, Politics News
Bruce Friedrich

In January, we will have a president who understands and cares about the broader implications of our food policy. This will be an impressive first.

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GOP Leaders: Vote However You Need To For Reelection

Politico | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republicans 2008 Election, Gop Leadership, Medicare Bill Gop, Republican Senate Leaders, GI Bill Gop, Medicare Bill, GI Bill, Farm Bill Gop, Farm Bill, Republicans Senate, Senate Races 2008, Senate Republicans 2008, Politics News

Republican Senate leaders -- terrified by the prospect of losing five or more seats in November -- have freed their members to vote however they need ...

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Hunger and the City

Lia Petridis | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York City Hunger, Sex and the City, Hunger, Food Stamps, Farm Bill, New York City, Politics News
Lia Petridis

A whole generation defines New York City by its glamour and "Sex-and-the-Cityness" rather than its obvious and fundamental problems. Why is hunger in New York City such a common phenomenon?

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McCain: Lock-Step and (Oil) Barrel

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Floods, Bush Oil, Congress, Nasa, Right Wing Media, Phil Gramm, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq Oil, Smears, Republican Hypocrisy, Stagflation, Political Corruption, Hurricane Katrina, Jim Wilkinson, Jeffrey Skilling, Texas Oil, John McCain, Michelle Obama, John McCain Hypocrisy, World Hunger, Enron, Climate Satellites, John McCain Lobbyist, Midwest Flooding, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Farm Bill, Enron Loophole, Enron Scam, John McCain 2008, Inflation, Hypocrisy, Refugees, Republicans, Green, Green News
Janet Ritz

While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.

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