Toxic Terrain: How farm fertilizer is poisoning America’s future
A 10-part investigation exposes the hidden costs of chemical agriculture — from dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico to rising cancer clusters across the Midwest.
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Venture capital goes organic
By buying farmland and renting it to organic farmers, venture capital turns farmland into a profit center.
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Breaking the food monopoly: why America’s health depends on its farmers
To heal America’s health crisis, we must put farmers, not multinational monopolies, back at the center of our food system.
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Nicole Shanahan warns geoengineering is already here
The question is no longer if geoengineering is happening — it’s how we expose it.
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What’s wrong with the USDA?
Captured by agricultural industries, the USDA no longer helps small family farmers. Its perverse incentives have redirected US agriculture to grow heavily treated corn and soy for ultra-processed foods and industrial purposes, rather than healthier foods.
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War on Raw Milk
Why are we forbidden from drinking what humans have consumed for thousands of years?
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US is a Net Food Importer
The United States, the world’s largest food exporter, imports a huge amount of the food Americans eat.
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Unfair Foreign Competition
U.S. farmers have had to compete with Mexican-produced fruits and vegetables, despite farmworkers in Mexico earning only about $2/hour. There have been three decades with zero tariff price protection for fruit and vegetable farmers.
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Toxic Sewage Sludge
Many farmers followed EPA recommendations and spread sewage sludge on their land as fertilizer. Now their land is contaminated with toxins and may not be usable.
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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.
