|
Support nonprofit, independent environmental journalism.
|
|
 Stories About: ag policy AND agriculture AND food AND industrial ag AND politics
| Headline |
Author |
Published |
Section |
Meat Wagon: Factory farms milk the government
Conservation title schemes, youth flee CAFO country, and a side of E. coli beef |
Tom Philpott |
14 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat industry. In the business section of Sunday's New York Times, reporter Andrew Martin shined a bright light on a USDA program called the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, or EQIP. Funded through the conservation title of the farm bill, EQIP was originally intended to support farmers who wanted to improve the ecological performance of their farms -- say, by sharing the cost of building a fence to k ... |
|
| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, industrial ag, politics (all these topics) |
|
|
On corn, meat, and the myth of Big Farma
Why we shouldn't target farmers for our farm bill frustrations |
Guest author |
13 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| We're very pleased to run this guest essay by Elanor Starmer, an independent activist scholar who lives in California. Elanor recently published an important paper (PDF) on the livestock industry with Tim Wise of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. As the farm bill lurches to its conclusion amid shrill rhetoric about the 'farm bloc,' Elanor redirects our attention to the real beneficiaries of both federal farm policy and conventional at ... |
|
| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, industrial ag, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
|
|
Forget the Farm Bill
For now, local politics is the way to effect ag-policy change |
Tom Philpott |
02 Aug 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| Over the past few years, grassroots support has swelled for new federal farm policies -- ones that promote healthy, sustainably grown food, not the interests of a few agribusiness firms. Udder madness. Photo: iStockphoto The target of much of this organizing has been the 2007 farm bill. If past farm bill debates have been the concern of a small cadre of lobbyists and activists, this one ... |
|
| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Congress, farmers markets, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, organic food, politics, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
|
|
Food Chain Radio: great edible audio
|
Erik Hoffner |
02 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I'd like to recommend Food Chain Radio to all you people who like to eat. This podcast/broadcast is freely available and fascinating, delving into the implications of our appetites: everything from factory farming and CAFOs to irradiation and poisoned pet food. The most interesting recent show available at the link above is called Grandma's Wartime Kitchen, which discusses a time of rationing when oddities like knuckle of pork and stuffed beef heart became culinary trea ... |
|
| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, industrial ag, politics (all these topics) |
|
|
|
|
©2008. Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Gloom and doom with a sense of humor®.