Tag: farming

Factory farming has made us think of chickens as mindless automata. But our downy friends know much more than we give them credit for.

EWG tested 24 samples of 14 non-organic oat-based products from popular brands and glyphosate was detected on all non-organic, or conventional, samples, but the average amounts were much lower than the tests conducted in 2018 and 2019.

We are the cause of the bumblebee decline—and the solution.

Ninety percent of all communes dissolve early on. How has this Missouri collective been making it work since 2005?

We must find a better way to prevent land use from changing.

In calling for an end to all uses of the pesticide on food, the agency cited evidence that acephate harms workers who apply the chemical as well as the general public and young children.

Whether in the realms of trade or agriculture, the operative principle was that debtors should not lose their economic liberty by being held liable for “acts of God.”

There has been a 29 percent increase in cattle farms with 5,000 or more cattle since 2012, and a 17 percent increase in the largest chicken farms.

"Rebuilding and renewing supportive social and economic connections across rural and urban lines, empowering rural people and communities, moving away from extractive relationships of the past, is the course we must chart together."

Using the same land for the production of both agriculture and solar energy is a win-win for the climate and farmers.