Farmers shut down Brussels as backlash grows over trade deal
After years of warnings, farmers say they are being forced to compete against products made with chemicals and practices banned in their own fields.
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When the farms die, so do we: A warning from Dr. Meryl Nass
America’s food system has become a slow-motion collapse engineered by subsidies, monopolies, and global agendas that are erasing the family farm and poisoning the plate.
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Food and Farming Crisis | Know What You Are Eating | Protecting Our Food Supply | Saving Family Farms
Toxic “biosolids” have contaminated a fifth of US farmland
Rebranded sewage sludge — loaded with PFAS, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and other industrial wastes — has been spread on millions of acres, poisoning soil, food, and groundwater while regulators look away.
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Fake Food | Food and Farming Crisis | Know What You Are Eating | Poultry Farming | Protecting Our Food Supply
What’s really in your chicken? Arsenic, Benadryl, and Prozac
In a 2012 New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof revealed that factory-farmed poultry is on more meds than you are — raising serious questions about food safety and the true costs of cheap meat.
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Unelected EU agriculture chief demands sustainable overhaul
Even as Europe faced growing farm protests, Brussels pushed a new “strategic dialogue” to force farms into green production that many say will cost small producers.
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Rethinking USDA food aid: from pandemic stopgaps to lasting solutions
A new analysis of U.S. nutrition spending shows how ad hoc pandemic programs, weak school meal standards, and loophole funding have fueled poor health outcomes — and lays out reforms to align food aid with real need.
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Bee collapse intensifies: millions lost in mysterious die-off
Dramatic new video investigation raises the alarm on widespread bee mortality and spotlights threats to pollinators and food systems.
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Suicide
U.S. farmers face a suicide rate 3.5 times higher than the general population, a stark indicator of the intense stress in agriculture.
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Risky Pesticides — What You Are Not Being Told
Federal regulation of pesticides is inadequate and has failed to investigate any hazards of their use in combination. Farmers are at a 50% higher risk for Parkinson’s Disease than the rest of the population.
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America’s Race to the Bottom in Food Quality
Why does our nation’s food quality keep getting worse?
