Commentary

Dozens of kinds of potato chips, corn chips, and other ultra-processed foods in the supermarket. (Photo credit: Mike Mozart)

Op-ed: The Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods Is Bad News for Our Health

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09.17.20

Organic Seed Alliance's field crew cleans organic spinach seed at the organization's research farm in Chimcum, Washington. Photo credit: Shawn Linehan.

Op-ed: How Patents Threaten Small Seed Companies

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09.11.20

loaves of whole grain bread and freshly milled whole grain wheat

Op-ed: Will the Real ‘Whole Grain’ Please Stand Up?

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08.28.20

A view of the Stock Cropper system. (Photo courtesy of Zach Smith)

Op-ed: A New Row-Cropping System in Iowa Offers Some Reasons for Optimism

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08.21.20

Op-ed: Why Those Community Fridges Won’t Solve Hunger

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07.30.20

workers in a poultry processing plant dealing with fast poultry line speeds and insufficient social distancing and other protections.

Op-ed: Speeding Up Poultry Lines in a Pandemic Puts Workers’ Lives in Danger

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07.17.20

A still from the Burger King ad about reducing their cows' methane emissions

Op-ed: Burger King’s New ‘Reduced Methane’ Beef May Be All Hat, No Cattle

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07.16.20

Karen Washington in her urban farm. Photo courtesy of Bioneers.

Op-ed: How Urban Agriculture Can Fight Racism in the Food System

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07.10.20

A Black farmer loading produce into a pickup truck

Op-ed: The Farm Bureau Says it Wants to Fight Racism. Here’s Where to Start.

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07.03.20

Jamil Burns of Raised Roots Farm in Oakland, shows off some of his produce destined for mutual aid for protesters seeking Black liberation.

Op-ed: We Can Build a Better Food System Through Mutual Aid

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06.26.20

Parchman Penal Farm. Male prisoners hoeing in a field in Mississippi. (Public domain photo by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History)

Op-ed: Overthrowing the Food System’s Plantation Paradigm

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06.19.20

two men stocking a farmers market table to provide fresh local produce to shoppers

Op-ed: We Must Save Farmers’ Markets

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05.29.20

latinx farmworkers harvesting lettuce in the fields

Op-ed: Migrant Farmworkers, Native Ranchers in Border States Hit Hardest by COVID-19

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05.22.20

a woman shops at a farmers market using food assistance funds during the coronavirus pandemic

Op-ed: With Food Insecurity on the Rise, Nutrition Incentives Should Be More Equitable

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05.14.20

food assistance from a mobile food pantry. (Photo CC-licensed by Phil Roeder)

Op-ed: Want to Fight Rising Food Insecurity? Listen to People Who’ve Been Hungry.

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05.08.20

Nikiko Masumoto walking in their peach orchard. (Photo by Brad Shirakawa)

Op-ed: Growing an Appreciation for the Hands That Feed Us

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05.06.20

National Farmers Union president Rob Larew in a field with a herd of cows.

Op-ed: A Fairer, More Resilient Food System is Possible

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05.01.20

Op-ed: Don’t Blame Farmers Who Have to Euthanize Their Animals. Blame the Companies They Work For.

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04.30.20