Tag: food
The weaponization of food
Russia and Ukraine have come to an agreement on food exports. Will the deal hold?
One major way we can reduce the suffering of animals raised...
Veterinarians have an opportunity to uphold medical ethics—and give the nation’s factory-farmed animals a small bit of mercy when they are killed.
How greedy corporations fuel inflation
“Companies make any kind of excuse to raise prices on everything."
How corporate food monopolies caused the baby formula scandal
The fact that a handful of companies produce the majority of our food means that small disruptions will have big impacts. This time the impacts are borne by American babies.
Our bodies, societies and planet are inflamed for the same reasons
Raj Patel and Rupa Marya coauthored the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice to highlight the connections between health and structural injustice.
Let’s get to the heart of the matter with biolabs and...
How can we justify slaughtering cows to repair our hearts, when the consumption of cows is what weakens our hearts?
Unclear federal law allows logging, farming and mining to threaten America’s...
No version of “waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS), part of the Clean Water Act, adequately protects the nation’s natural areas.
Toxic chemicals in food packaging weaken our immune system response to...
A new federal bill would advance public and environmental health by banning toxic chemicals from food packaging.
Shielding poor children from the looming food crisis
The war in Ukraine is causing further disruption to the global food supply and making it harder for the world’s poorest households to afford adequate nutrition.
The global seafood supply is being contaminated by microplastics, but major...
Our addiction to plastic is having negative effects all along the food chain.
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Corporate greed exposed: Kroger admits to price gouging on milk and eggs amid antitrust...
A top Kroger executive admits to inflating milk and egg prices above the rate of inflation
The ‘weavings’ of a wacko: The fakery of grinding Trump hokum into brilliance
“I never ramble, I only ‘weave,’”/ Thus doubling down ways to deceive.
Knowledge is power. Gaza war supporters don’t want students to have both.
Silence is complicity, and that’s the way Israel’s allies like it. For them, the new academic term restarts a threat to the status quo.
The New Yorker publishes 2005 Haditha, Iraq massacre photos Marines ‘didn’t want the world...
The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range.
Republican judge blocks student debt relief rule before it’s finalized, delaying relief for millions
The Biden administration has been working to alleviate the burden of student loans, especially for long-term borrowers who have been repaying loans for decades.