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With Petition to Congress, 100,000+ People Demand Green New Deal 'That Fixes Our Food System'

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USDA Indefinitely Suspends Honey Bee Tracking Survey as States Get Approval to Use Bee-Killing Pesticide

Julia Conley, staff writer

The Trump administration's budget cuts have led to a suspension of the USDA's tracking of honey bee populations.

"Yet another example of the Trump administration systematically undermining federal research on food safety, farm productivity, and the public interest writ large."

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Citing $69 Trillion Price Tag by 2100, Moody's Warns Central Banks of Far-Reaching Economic Damage of Climate Crisis

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Arid soils

"There is no denying it: The longer we wait to take bold action to curb...

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'Good News': Austria Poised to Become First EU Nation to Fully Ban Cancer-Linked Weed Killer Glyphosate

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Roundup

"It is our responsibility to ban this poison from our environment."

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Employees stood and turned their backs to Sonny Perdue on Thursday as the agriculture secretary detailed the move of two of USDA's key research agencies out of Washington, D.C.

USDA Employees Turn Backs on Sonny Perdue as USDA Head Announces Moving of Research Agencies

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In Just One Decade, Corporations Destroyed 50 Million Hectares of Forest—An Area the Size of Spain

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Scientists Warn Summer 'Dead Zone' in Gulf of Mexico Could Span 'Roughly the Size of Massachusetts'

Corn burst from a grain bin which was soaked with floodwater on March 23, 2019, near Union, Nebraska.

'A Drastic Difference': With Climate Crisis Fueling Storms and Floods, Historic Delay in Planting Season Threatens US Farmers and Food Prices

Bernie Sanders Takes on Monsanto, Big Ag Monopolies With Plan to 'Revitalize Rural America'

Back in Iowa, Sanders Says Big Ag's Stranglehold a Key Part of 'Major Crisis' Facing Rural America

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'Finally!': Court Orders EPA to Stop Stalling Potential Ban on Pesticide Tied to Brain Damage in Kids

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Study Shows Even 'Moderate' Consumption of Red and Processed Meat Increases Risk of Colon Cancer

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300+ Groups to Congress: #GreenNewDeal 'Must Transform Our Food System and Revitalize Rural America'

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As Industrial Farming Exploded Over the Past Century, the Netherlands' Butterfly Population Plummeted 84%

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A 'Commitment to Reclaim Our Lands and Our Future': 100+ Groups Mark 'Day of the Landless'

Dusk at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

'We Can't Trust the Permafrost Anymore': Doomsday Vault at Risk in Norway

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Food & Water Watch

Reps. Khanna, Pocan Introduce Bill To Finally Force Ag Companies to Take Responsibility for Their Own Waste

Center for Food Safety

Center for Food Safety Sues Trump Administration for Unlawfully Keeping Secret the Reasons for Gutting the School Lunch Nutrition Program

Food & Water Watch

Public Interest Groups Launch Legal Action to Protect Waterways from Slaughterhouse Pollution

Food & Water Watch

Food & Water Watch Applauds House for Taking Important Step to Block Hog Slaughter Inspection Privatization

Food & Water Watch

Presidential Candidates Called Upon to Increase Fairness for Family Farmers

Friends of the Earth

Customers to Demand Kroger Stop Selling Food Grown With Bee-killing Pesticides

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Kelsey Kruger

The Green New Deal Must Include Regenerative Agriculture and an End to Factory Farming

Steven McFadden

Sleepwalking Into Certain Catastrophe, or Awakening via Agroecology

Timothy Wise

Agroecology as Innovation

Brian Wakamo

We Have the Money to Fix Our Food System

Elizabeth Henderson

Unfair Food Pricing Is Killing Family Farms and Regenerative Farming

Maywa Montenegro, Annie Shattuck

US Agriculture Needs a 21st-Century New Deal

Suzanne Stone

Trump Wants to Remove Federal Protections for Wolves: Idaho’s Example Shows Why This Is a Terrible Idea

Jim Hightower

The Devastation of Farm Country Is Biting Us All on the Butt

Tia Schwab

The Scary New Math of Factory Farm Waste

Jim Goodman

Current Farm Crisis Offers Opportunity For Change