In an excellent 2000 report titled "The Price We Pay for Corporate Hogs," researcher Marlene Halverson of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy recounts the following stories:
On July 26, 1989, five farm workers in one family died after consecutively entering a 10-foot deep liquid manure pit on their Michigan farm….....
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A while back, I began a series of posts examining the infamous "farm lobby," that oft-mentioned force supposedly responsible for our food system’s many ills. I noticed that mainstream media coverage of the Farm Bill tends to demonize farmers to the exclusion of other, more powerful figures whose fingerprints are all over our grocery...
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Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
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Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
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