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'It Was a Fake Meat Shortage': Reporting Suggests Industry Sacrificed Workers During Pandemic to Keep Exports Moving

At Least 9 Million US Households With Children Are 'Not At All Confident' They'll Be Able to Afford Food Next Month, Census Survey Finds

Julia Conley, staff writer

"E ven if they *do* end up getting food, you have to understand the mental and physical toll of living with that kind of fear, and how that affects relationships, work, health, and everything else."

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After Coronavirus Triggers 17% Emissions Drop, Experts Say Only 'Fundamental Structural Change' Can Save Humanity's Future

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Climate change activists from the group "No Going Back—another world is possible," took part in a social distancing protest on May, 4 2020 in St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

The research "underscores a simple truth," says climate scientist Michael Mann...

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'Anything But Secure': Advocates Decry USDA Rule Allowing Big Ag to Set Its Own Regulations on GMOs

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

A rally in support of GMO labeling in Connecticut.

"The new regulations finalized by USDA, paradoxically named the SECURE rule,...

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'Monstrous Cruelty: As Hunger Soars, Trump USDA Resumes Effort to Take Nutrition Benefits From More Than a Million People

A customer wearing a face mask amid concerns over the Covid-19 pandemic walks past empty shelves at a supermarket in Bangkok on March 16, 2020.

As Pandemic Rattles Global Food System, Report Deems Mass Malnutrition World's Top Killer

Rep. Ro Khanna

Rep. Khanna Introduces 'Visionary' Bill to Take On Big Ag, Strengthen Family Farms

A recipient carries a box of food as others wait in line at a Food Bank distribution for those in need as the coronavirus pandemic continues on April 9, 2020 in Van Nuys, California.

New 'Alarming' Research Shows Nearly 1 in 5 Children in US Going Without Enough Food Amid Coronavirus Crisis

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

'This Is What a Disaster Looks Like': Ocasio-Cortez House Bill Would Allow FEMA to Provide Pandemic Relief

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Slashing US Meat Consumption by Half Could Cut Diet-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 35%: Study

Piglets like these ones pictured are being slaughtered en masse around the country as food supply chains run into trouble.

Millions of Pigs and Chickens in US Factory Farms Face Cruel Deaths as Covid-19 Sparks Mass Cullings

"The federal government should be stepping in to supplement food distribution networks to get our abundant frozen meat supplies to stores and food banks that need them."

'Catastrophic Harm' Feared as Trump Uses Emergency Powers to Keep Meat-Packing Plants Open

'Grotesque, Deadly Failure': Trump USDA Under Fire for Letting Millions of Pounds of Produce Rot as Food Insecurity Surges

'Lowest of the Low': McConnell and Trump Ripped for Blocking Food Assistance in Covid-19 Package

Farmworker Juan Antonio wears a face mask in a field in Riverhead, New York

USDA's $19 Billion in COVID-19 Relief for Farmers and Food Banks Sparks Questions About Who Will Benefit

A volunteer with Forgotten Harvest loads food into a vehicle at a mobile pantry April 14, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan.

As Food Banks Face Shortages and Fresh Produce Rots, Pandemic Spurs Calls for Sustainable Supply Chain

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Military Landfill to Organic Squash: Change Happens

A three-acre organic farm has taken root on Governor's Island in New York Harbor, home to military installations since 1794 and the Coast Guard until ten years ago. Tomatoes due in July. “It’s pretty trippy to see plants growing and the Statue of Liberty,” said Leslie Koch of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corp.

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National Family Farm Coalition

Family Farmers Reject Carbon Markets Bill, Call for Ecosystem-Based Solutions to Climate Crisis

Center for Food Safety

Joint Statement from National Family Farm Coalition, Center for Food Safety, Center for Biological Diversity, and Pesticide Action Network North America, Petitioners in National Family Farm Coalition v EPA & Monsanto

Center for Food Safety

Newly Finalized Federal Regulations on GMOs Are a “Free for All” for Chemical Corporations

U.S. Right to Know

ILSI is a Food Industry Front Group, New Study Suggests

Center for Food Safety

Statement on Newly Finalized Federal Regulations on GMOs

Food & Water Watch

New Research Shows Alarming Impacts of the Corporate Dairy Industry in Oregon

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Simon Whalley

The Plant-Based Diet That Our Planet Urgently Needs

Thom Hartmann

Yes, the Looting Must Stop

Emily Folk

Coronavirus and the Inhumane Treatment of Meat Packers

Joseph Winters

Rather Than Cull Millions of Livestock, Let’s End Animal Agriculture

Pierre Tristam

Food Drops Are Not Enough. Expand Food Stamps Programs Now.

Christopher Cook

Farmers Are Destroying Mountains of Food. Here's What To Do About It

Joshua Cho

Why It’s Wrong (and Racist) to Blame Covid-19 on Chinese 'Wet Markets'

Jim Goodman

That This System Would Fail Was Entirely Predictable

Mark Middleton

To Prevent the Next Pandemic, We Need Meaningful Oversight of Animal Agribusiness

Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano

We Created the Anthropocene, and the Anthropocene Is Biting Back