Food freedom is becoming a national security issue
John Klar and Meryl Nass talk about how food policy is quietly crushing small farmers — and why fixing local meat processing could lower prices, improve health, and strengthen food security.
John Klar and Meryl Nass talk about how food policy is quietly crushing small farmers — and why fixing local meat processing could lower prices, improve health, and strengthen food security.
A new investigation shows how decades of consolidation have trapped U.S. farmers in a system designed for them to lose.
One of the South’s most successful growers has slashed nearly half his farmland, warning that fertilizer, fuel, and equipment prices have made large-scale farming financially impossible — and that thousands of acres across the region may sit empty next spring as farmers walk away.
This week, the House is set to vote on the Interior–Environment Appropriations bill — without Section 453, the provision that would have made updating pesticide labels significantly more difficult.
Hidden behind the illusion of choice at the grocery store is a highly consolidated system in which a handful of corporations control the animals, the farmers, the processing, and ultimately the price of the food on your plate.
After years of warnings, farmers say they are being forced to compete against products made with chemicals and practices banned in their own fields.
Emergency aid is keeping farms afloat, but only structural policy reform will allow farmers to earn a living.
Billed as a safeguard for humanity, the Svalbard Seed Vault reveals uncomfortable truths about biotech power, food sovereignty, and elite contingency planning.
Whether America’s farmland goes to young farmers or financial giants may define the future of our food system, Joel Salatin warns.
The crisis isn’t a lack of subsidies, but a food system clogged by consolidation and regulatory bottlenecks.