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Agriculture

'Guilty on All Counts!': In Historic Victory, Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Roundup Cancer Lawsuit

Roundup

Earliest "Earth Overshoot Day" Ever Expected for 2018 as Consumption of Natural Resources Accelerates

Julia Conley, staff writer

The overuse of natural resources "should be of concern to all, but especially political leaders, who aren't doing enough to make life on Earth sustainable"

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Emissions Impossible: How Big Meat and Dairy Are Heating Up the Planet

GRAIN and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)

"Most of the top 35 global meat and dairy giants either do not report or underreport their emissions. Only four of them provide complete, credible emissions estimates." (Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

Together, the world’s top five meat and dairy corporations are now responsible...

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Aaack! New Analysis Shows Superbugs Lurking on Three-Fourths of U.S. Supermarket Meat

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Meat packages

"The public shouldn't have to wait until 100 percent of the bacteria found on...

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cattle

'No Such Thing as Cheap Meat': Global Index Shows Industry Failure to Combat Climate Crisis, Antibiotic Resistance

Hundreds Rally, Dozens Arrested in Effort to Save Chickens from 'Horrific Cruelty' at Industrial Egg Farm

cows

Humans Less Than 1% of Life on Earth, But Have Destroyed Half of Its Plants, More Than 80% of All Mammals

piggies

Calling for Overhaul of Nation's Food System, New Campaign Seeks Ban on Factory Farms

'Huge Win for Pollinators, People, and Planet': EU Bans Bee-Killing Pesticides

With 'Merger From Hell' Reportedly Approved by DOJ, Warnings of Agrichemical Chokehold on Food System

food diversity

Alarm Sounds After EU Regulators Greenlight Bayer-Monsanto 'Merger From Hell'

To Avoid Water Shortage for 5 Billion by 2050, UN Report Urges Nature-Based Solutions

chicken

Angering Organic Farmers and Advocates, Trump's USDA Kills Animal Welfare Rule

50+ Groups Back Landmark Effort to Halt 'Out of Control' Factory Farming in Iowa

Demonstrators march in Berlin on Saturday calling for an end to industrial agriculture. (Photo: Bund/Friends of the Earth Germany)

At Berlin March, Tens of Thousands Demand End to Industrial Agriculture

New Study: Big Ag, Climate Crisis Key Drivers of Ocean 'Dead Zones' Quadrupling in Size Over Last 60 Years

Newswire

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

EWG Responds to General Mills and Quaker Oats: ‘Legal Is Not the Same as Safe’

SumofUs

Consumer Group Responds to $289 Million Ruling Against Agricultural Giant Monsanto

Friends of the Earth

Farming, Food Safety, and Environmental Organizations Call on DOJ to Block Bayer-Monsanto Toxic Mega Merger

The Cornucopia Institute

USDA-Backed “Factory Farm” Takeover of Organic Milk Production Crushing Family-Scale Farmers and Forcing Them Out of Business

Food & Water Watch

FDA Investigating Possible Link Between Factory Farms and Tainted Lettuce

Food & Water Watch

USDA Inspectors Pressured to Keep Line Speeds Up Under Privatized Inspection System

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Views

John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto

Coffee and the Shock Doctrine in Puerto Rico

Patty Lovera

Trump’s Farmer "Bailout," Explained

Ben Lilliston

Stop Meat Companies from Rigging the Grass-fed Market

Lee Camp

The No. 1 Cause of Climate Change the Media Don’t Mention

Krissy Kasserman

Big Ag's False Solution

Wenonah Hauter

What Fossil Fuels and Factory Farms Have in Common

Patty Lovera

A Food Revolution: The Climate Case for a Factory Farm Ban

Glenn Greenwald

Six Animal Rights Activists Charged With Felonies for Investigation and Rescue That Led to Punishment of a Utah Turkey Farm

Elizabeth Enochs

Steve King Wants to Force States to Hurt Animals—and People

Krissy Kasserman

Nobody Should Have Hog Poop on the Walls of Their Home

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