This weekend the Louisville Courier-Journal ran a Letter to the Editor from Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly PC(USA) calling on Senator Mitch McConnell to continue to his support for meaningful commodity program payment limits such as…

Yesterday, Tom Philpott did a masterful job explaining why gutting subsidies shouldn’t be the focus of Farm Bill reform efforts. He zeros right in on overproduction as the real culprit and calls for support of the Dorgan Grassley amendment to…

The Farm Bill comes to the Senate floor today. Debate is scheduled for two weeks. However, important reform amendments to Title 1, home of subsidies to farmers of the “big five” commodities (corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, and cotton) are expected…

This is a great little 8-minute video about Equal Exchange, produced by the Zana Network as part of their “Bright Green” series on progressive small businesses. Also from the Bright Green series is this piece about the Cafe Verde Food…

This week (actually, tomorrow, Wednesday, October 24) the Senate Agriculture Committee is scheduled to markup their version of the farm bill. Many of our action alerts over the past few months have pointed to this week. Today, we highlight two…

By Jana McNally Ten years ago I called myself a farmer. I rose at dawn with my co-farmer husband, drove to our farm thirty-five minutes away and put in a twelve, sometimes fourteen hour day. We didn’t take days off,…

If you are like me and have done a bit of reading about genetic engineering in agriculture, you are suspicious of the hype about the potential of GMOs for feeding the world. So far, commercial use of GMOs’ greatest success…

Sister Mary Ann Garisto at her non profit farm, Sister’s Hill Farm, in Dutchess county brings healthy produce to the needy in New York. (Phil Mansfield for the New York Times) Did you even know there was a Christian Vegetarian…

In anticipation of the Senate Agriculture Committee marking up the farm bill next week (scheduled for Tuesday, October 23) we will highlight a few of the issues on our blog this week. Today, we will focus once again on food…

I highlighted the dangerous effects of additives on kids below. Now, it looks like Budweiser is experimenting with unwanted additives in a favorite adult (usually) beverage! WASHINGTON – October 8 – Greenpeace released the results of analyses showing the presence…