Commentary

Farmers participate in a candlelight vigil on New Year's Eve on a highway leading to Delhi on the Gaziabad border on December 31, 2020 in Delhi, India. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images)

Op-ed: What the Farmers’ Revolution in India Says About Big Ag in the US and Worldwide

March 1, 2021

Farmers in India are engaged in nearly the same fight U.S. farmers waged 40 years ago—against the same corporate interests.

Op-ed: We Need to Get Food Industry Dollars Out of Politics to Save Our Democracy

By Lucy Martinez Sullivan

February 26, 2021

A photo of a bunch of soda cans from above, representing big food and junk food

Op-ed: Monopolies In the Food System Make Food More Expensive and Less Accessible

By Philip H. Howard and Mary Hendrickson

February 17, 2021

Op-ed: The Peanut Industry Has a Monopoly Problem—but Farmers Are Pushing Back

By Ron Knox

January 15, 2021

peanuts in a field being harvest by a tractor. Photo CC-licensed by the Georgia Peanut Commission

Op-ed: Now Is the Time for Cooking Schools to Offer Culinary Activism 101

By Robert Egger

December 18, 2020

A team of students and chefs at Santa Fe Community College prepares a community meal. (Photo courtesy of Robert Egger)

Op-ed: Dear Secretary of Agriculture, This Is Your Chance

By Ricardo Salvador

December 11, 2020

Tom Vilsack speaks during day two of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 5, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Op-ed: California Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Food Delivery Workers Nationwide

By Claire Kelloway

November 12, 2020

Uber Eats food delivery app riders lining up in the street to deliver food from restaurants

Op-ed: The New York Times Fridge Quiz Is a Referendum on Class and Whiteness

By Erica Carson

November 2, 2020

The inside of a refrigerator. (Photo CC-licensed by Robert Nagle)

12 Native-Owned Food Businesses to Support on Indigenous Peoples’ Day

By Maria Givens and Alison Creasy

October 12, 2020

Two Indigenous farmers, from Ajo Sustainable Agriculture and Ramona Farms, gather fruit.

Op-ed: ‘Kiss the Ground’ Misses the Complexity of Climate Solutions in the Soil

By Becca Lucas, CalCAN

October 8, 2020

A hand holding healthy soils with a worm inside on a farm.

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

By Phillip Baker, Mark Lawrence and Priscilla Machado

September 17, 2020

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

Op-ed: How Patents Threaten Small Seed Companies

By Kristina "Kiki" Hubbard and Cathleen McCluskey

September 11, 2020

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

By Bob Klein

August 28, 2020

loaves of whole grain bread and freshly milled whole grain wheat

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

By Ricardo Salvador

August 21, 2020

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

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

By Rae Gomes

July 30, 2020

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

By Shayla Thompson

July 17, 2020

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

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

By Frank Mitloehner

July 16, 2020

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

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

By Karen Washington

July 10, 2020

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

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

By John Boyd and Scott Faber

July 3, 2020

A Black farmer loading produce into a pickup truck

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

By Antonio Roman-Alcalá

June 26, 2020

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: Overthrowing the Food System’s Plantation Paradigm

By Ashanté Reese and Randolph Carr

June 19, 2020

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

Op-ed: We Must Save Farmers’ Markets

By Ben Feldman and Kate Creps

May 29, 2020

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

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

By Gary Nabhan

May 22, 2020

latinx farmworkers harvesting lettuce in the fields

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

By Mark Winne and Andy Fisher

May 14, 2020

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

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

By Sarah Bowen, Annie Hardson-Moody and Sinikka Elliott

May 8, 2020