Food Policy
Pacific Islander Food-Sharing Customs Can Buffer Disaster
Strong social networks foster resilience to food system shocks, both within and between Pacific Island communities.
America's Diet Is Killing Us
Frances Moore Lappé: Our food is increasingly implicated in such major killers as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, stroke, and certain cancers.
No Starvation for Oil
As President Joe Biden embarks on his trip to the Middle East, those of us back home must acknowledge that a “sensitive” trip would visit the victims rather than the butchers.
As Global Food Systems Collapse, Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty
The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally. But how to fund local food co-ops without pricey loans from big banks?
Omar Says Free, Universal School Meals Should Be Permanent
Ilhan Omar argued Friday that free school meal waivers enacted early in the pandemic to forestall a surge in child hunger.
Farmers Without a Farm
As more Latinos join urban gardens, the benefits and obstacles to cultivating roots in the city come into focus.
The Ukraine War’s Role in Exacerbating Global Food Insecurity
The effects of the war in Ukraine have brought much of the world’s attention to energy prices. But food insecurity is also rising and will likely get worse.
Capitalism Caused Baby Formula Shortage
There is a simple reason why the baby formula shortage has transpired: global capitalism and the food monopolies it has fostered.
Gettin to the Heart of the Matter With Biolabs and Cows
How can we justify slaughtering cows to repair our hearts, when the consumption of cows is what weakens our hearts?
Dangerous Baby Food Monopolies
Four babies who had consumed formula from the plant suffered bacterial infections; two of them died.
How Ella Madatyan Overcame
Ella’s turnaround project, Papillon Bakery, became the cornerstone of a burgeoning empire, which now includes five thriving outlets in North Hollywood, Northridge, Hollywood, and two locations in Glendale.
Ella Madatyan: Armenian Immigrant Bakes Her Way to Success
As the owner of five Papillon Bakeries in Los Angeles, Ella Madatyan uses her business success and relationship struggles to mentor other women facing similar challenges.
Glyphosate & Industrial Agriculture Must Go
Stephen Frantz: Monsanto colluded with journal editors to limit/retract the publication of articles that were not favorable for glyphosate; nor did such editor disclose their conflicts of interest.
From Popovers to Popunders: The Kind of Decarbonization That Can Succeed
Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox: Policy should not start with the assumption that growth can be increasingly “decarbonized” by building more and more wind and solar capacity
Food System Fragility and How to Localize It
April Short: We have a distinct theory of change. The food system of the future will be more distributed, regional, and scaled to ecological, not processing realities.
Food Industry Puts Profits Over Public Health Using Big Tobacco’s Playbook
Gigi Kellet: In certain cases, preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—can devastate public health.
Food Insecurity Skyrockets in Key Battleground State
Maki Somosot: Food banks and pantries like With God’s Grace are an everyday reality in Ohio, where one in seven Ohioans struggle to provide for themselves and food insecurity surpasses regional and national rates.
Why This Farmer Went From Raising Chickens to Growing Industrial Hemp
Lauri Torgerson-White: Conventional chickens, or “broilers” as the industry calls them, suffer a wide range of welfare problems.
How to Support Your Local Farmers as Restaurants and Farmers Markets Close
April M. Short: Rather than shipping mass-produced food thousands of miles, our food systems will likely benefit from more localized and community-supported food sources.
Vegans Will Love This Proposed L.A. Law
Anna Keeve: Veg-heads in Los Angeles are rejoicing over a proposed law that would require large-scale public venues to serve at least one plant-based protein option.
4 Vegan Knowledge Bombs to Drop on 'World Vegan Day'
Anna Keeve: Whether you go vegan – or are considering doing so – for animal welfare reasons, environment or health (or all three), you can take solace in knowing that you are doing some good for yourself and the world.
California Prisoners, Patients Likely Getting Vegan Option
Anna Keeve: The bill, if passed, would require not only licensed health care facilities to provide plant-based meal options to patients, it would also require that state prisons to do the same.
Why Legislation Is Key to Helping Technology End Food Poverty
Cindy Trillo: Food poverty has remained statistically high in LA and is compounded by the difficulty that federal policy can cause further problems.
Mexico Rescinds Monsanto's Permit to Grow GMO Soybeans
Stephen Fox: The company has long wanted to grow corn in the country that invented corn over millennia of genetic experimentation by indigenous farmers working long before even the Spanish came.