Christian Science Monitor | ‘Personnel is policy’: How progressives are shaping Biden administration
Ahead of an executive order that will diminish corporate power, Farm Action Fund President Joe Maxwell says Big Ag is a “threat to our democracy.”
Ahead of an executive order that will diminish corporate power, Farm Action Fund President Joe Maxwell says Big Ag is a “threat to our democracy.”
The Biden Administration proposed new regulations under the Packers and Stockyards Act to protect farmers and ranchers from unfair trade practices.
Farmers and activists say carbon markets will lock in monocrop systems and industrial operations that degrade the environment and shut out smaller farms.
The Climate Stewardship Act was reintroduced in Congress. Farm Action President Joe Maxwell says it incentivizes climate change mitigation strategies.
Farm Action co-founders Angela Huffman and Joe Maxwell highlight the threat of foreign corporate interest in U.S. farmland in Newsweek magazine.
40 years in the past, the US threw open farming to the corporate sector, one thing India now desires to do. How has this performed on the market? Los Angeles-based IITian Bedabrata Pain, an ex-Nasa scientist and nationwide award-winning filmmaker, set out on a journey throughout rural America to document the story of their farmers.
How we produce meat has profound implications for people, the environment, and animals. Big Meat corporations operate on an industrial model of animal agriculture that drives farmers off the land, injures workers, traps billions of animals in horrid conditions, pollutes rural drinking water, and in some states disproportionately sickens rural communities of color.
Family farm groups are applauding a new proposal by Senate Democrats to strengthen antitrust enforcement and make markets fairer and more competitive.
Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar filed the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act. She says while the United States once had some of the most effective antitrust laws in the world, today’s economy faces a massive competition problem that can’t be swept under the rug.
Food & Water Watch and other consumer advocacy groups on Thursday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the body to enjoin Smithfield Foods from making “false claims” about its pork products and how the company produces them.