Issue 2

It's Election Day: May I Take Your Order?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green


Kerry Trueman

Think of your ballot as a list of menu options. Would you like your burger with, or without, deadly pathogens?

Big Ag To Sway Ohio Voters On Treatment Of Farm Animals

Mother Jones | Kevin Drum | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


Ohio voters will hit the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of an agribusiness-backed proposal that would amend the state constitution and create a boar...

Casting a Moral Vote Against Big Ag

David Sirota | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green


David Sirota

Our macho culture portrays vegetarianism as unacceptably "weak" or "bleeding heart." But it is finding a powerful constituency at the ballot box.

VIDEO: Vote Against Corporate Agribusiness

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


Bob Cesca

Issue 2 will amend Ohio's state constitution to create a small regulatory panel to oversee all of Ohio's livestock. Corporate agribusinesses love the idea, but family farms will be crushed.

On Farmers, Activists and Scary Food Issues

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green


Leslie Hatfield

Originally published on The Green Fork. I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmer...

We Can't Reform Health Care without Reforming Food

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green


Bob Cesca

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.