Environmentalists Pan Unintended Environmental Consequences of Flawed Agricultural Laws
Here and abroad, laws and policies meant to protect sustainability aren't delivering and cost a fortune.
Here and abroad, laws and policies meant to protect sustainability aren't delivering and cost a fortune.
Corporate welfare hurts the people who actually need help.
Innovations in epidemiological statistics, artificial fertilizer, toilets, sanitation systems, and vaccines have allowed billions of people to flourish until old age.
Who thought it was a good idea to give the government control over marketing?
Language regarding seed exchanges could violate contracts.
The process uses 99 percent less land and 96 percent less freshwater than traditional meat production.
"I don't understand why money is leaving my pocket and going into the pocket of somebody who is wealthy."
The vast majority of hospitalized COVID-19 patients are overweight. Why won’t the government stop subsidizing junk food?
The state legislature and Gov. Jared Polis are unshackling local ranchers and consumers.
The Supreme Court will decide if the rule violates property rights.
Joe Biden’s choice for agriculture secretary is more of the same.
Requiring meatpackers to pandemic-proof their facilities will have unintended consequences.
Food industry workers and wonks make their case for agricultural and food industry reforms.
Growing more food on less acreage means more land for nature.
Three bills are on the table, but only one of them promises to unshackle small and independent ranchers.
Ontario has added new protections for agricultural workers and relaxed restaurant regulations.
The city will spend close to $1 million building vertical gardens to provide produce for its healthy eating programs.
That's probably because those goals were always completely unrealistic. Less than six months after the deal was signed, it's already coming apart.
Most of the money will go to the wealthiest agriculture businesses.
Wet markets should be made safer, not driven underground.
The ability of Americans to buy meat in grocery stores is at risk due to serious supply-chain issues caused by COVID-19.
A renewed push to pass the PRIME Act picks up steam as COVID-19 leaves us all asking “Where’s the beef?”
Restoring up to 2.2 million square miles to nature
Wyoming’s first-and-best-in-the-nation food freedom law just keeps getting better.
We need to be careful, but we also need people to bring food from fields to our tables
Impossible Foods says that animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change. Instead of trying to pass laws to ban meat, it's providing tasty, plant-based alternatives.
Instead of $12.5 billion in new agriculture purchases exports to China this year, the USDA expects less than $4 billion.
If you think the worse thing you can do to a pig is kill it, footage from Rozenboom's farm will disabuse you of that notion.
Texas is ignoring federal law to harass small farms.
The reform could help formalize immigrant farm labor.
Can they do it fast enough to stop the African swine fever apocalypse?
Government has tilted the scales in milk's favor for so long that dairies forgot how to compete.
Raw butterists are understandably salty about a prohibition on interstate commerce.
Eating meat doesn't have as big of an impact on the environment as you've been told.
Nobody is being "confused" by vegetarian meat substitutes.
Investment in American businesses has fallen sharply since the start of the trade war, and American exports are way down too.
The government shouldn't pass special laws that prevent people from revealing what's true.
As messy as things are, they could get uglier still.
“Neither de facto [GMO] bans nor mandatory labeling can be justified.”
The House Freedom Caucus calls it "a sprawling, cronyist agriculture bill."
Plus: Google hearing once again reveals legislative ignorance on tech and IRS auditors target more low-income taxpayers.
If we want fresh oysters, good cheeses, and clean water, we should rethink how we regulate all three.
Low yield organic farming uses up lots more land and harms biodiversity
Just like the last one. And the one before that. And the one before that.