Food + Policy

Farmer Doug Crabtree walks in his sunflower field (Photo by Jennifer Hopwood, Xerces Society)

22 Reasons to Support Civil Eats on #GivingTuesday 2022

By The Civil Eats Editors

November 29, 2022

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Young Farmers Are Growing Food for Climate Action and Racial Justice

November 28, 2022

Iriel Edwards working on the farm. (Photo courtesy of Iriel Edwards)

Young People Working for Food Justice in North Carolina

By Christina Cooke

November 23, 2022

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Young Fishermen Are Struggling to Stay Afloat

By Tilde Herrera

November 23, 2022

Lucas Raymond holding a halibut. (Photo courtesy of the New England Young Fishermen's Alliance)

This Mother-Daughter Team Is Sharing Food Traditions from the Ho-Chunk Nation

By Gabriel Pietrorazio

November 22, 2022

Elena Terry, (left) and Zoe Fess smile after showcasing Seedy SassSquash, a signature family dish, during the Smithsonian’s

Young People Are Feeding the Effort to Unionize Food Service Workers

By Annie Sciacca

November 21, 2022

Starbucks employees and union organizers protest outside Starbucks headquarters in fall 2022. (Photo courtesy of Fern Potter)

Absent Federal Oversight of Animal Agriculture Safety, States and Others Step Up for Change

By Christina Cooke

November 18, 2022

A happy and healthy-looking worker in a clean and well-lit dairy. Photo credit: Vera Chang.

Tyson Says Its Nurses Help Workers. Critics Charge They Stymie OSHA.

By Alice Driver

November 17, 2022

An anonymous worker, 48, from Guatemala, has worked at the Tyson in Green Forest, Arkansas, for 20 years. She needs carpal tunnel surgery in both arms, and Tyson doctors have confirmed that she needs it. However, Tyson has told her the company will not cover the cost of the surgery. Her husband, also a Tyson worker, died of COVID in 2020. (Photo by Jacky Muniello for Civil Eats)

Biogas Expansion May Compound Worker Risks

By Kari Lydersen

November 16, 2022

An overhead view of an anaerobic digester pond next to animal barns and a cornfield. (Photo credit: Maas Energy)

‘I Was Coughing So Hard I Would Throw Up’

By Gosia Wozniacka

November 15, 2022

An animal-ag worker carries two piglets in a CAFO.

Animal Agriculture Is Dangerous Work. The People Who Do It Have Few Protections.

By Christina Cooke

November 14, 2022

A dairy worker in a barn. (Photo courtesy of Migrant Justice)

Urban Farms Are Stepping Up Their Roles in Communities Nationwide

By Rachel Surls

November 10, 2022

At far right, urban farmers Richard Garcia and Erika Cuellar, the founders of Alma Backyard farms, with some of their crew. (Photo credit: Rachel Surls)

Disabled Activists Are Building a More Inclusive Food Justice Future

By Dana Ferrante

November 9, 2022

Gerldine Wilson, an older Black woman who is legally blind, wears a pair of black sunglasses, and holds a white cane in her right hand, as she stands between her community garden’s raised beds. The plants are in full-bloom, and contain peppers, squash, pink flowers, tomatoes, and more. (Photo credit: Grassroots Gardens WNY)

New Mexico Farmers Face a Choice: Pray for Rain or Get Paid Not to Plant

By Virginia Gewin

November 8, 2022

Glen Duggins farms chiles and alfalfa in Socorro, New Mexico. (Photo credit: Virginia Gewen)

How the Midterm Elections Will Impact Food and Agriculture

November 3, 2022

Sunrise over the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

With New Federal Funding, Has Agroforestry’s Moment Arrived?

By Erik Hoffner, Mongabay

November 3, 2022

A handful of hazelnuts harvested by Nutwood Farm co-owner Kalyan Water. (Photo credit: Erik Hoffner/Mongabay)

Renata Birkenbuel Joins Civil Eats as Indigenous Foodways Reporting Fellow

By The Civil Eats Editors

November 1, 2022

Indigenous Foodways Fellow Renata Birkenbuel at Belt Creek in Monarch, Montana.

Native Farmers Push for More Equitable Training and Support in the Farm Bill

By Gabriel Pietrorazio

November 1, 2022

Nakai Clearwater Northup stands behind three traditional ethnobotany gardens, which he manages at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center. At one time, his people solely relied on them to maintain their cultural connections to food before the founding of Meechooôk Farm. (Photo by Gabriel Pietrorazio)

Year-Round Farming in Massachusetts? How the State Is Investing in Solutions.

October 31, 2022

Eastie Farm's geothermal greenhouse, built with funds from a food security infrastructure grant from the state. (Photo credit: Meg Wilcox)

Op-ed: I’m a Restaurant Worker, Not a Robot

By Caitlin Hart

October 28, 2022

Can a Court Compel the EPA to Protect Communities of Color From CAFO Pollution?

October 26, 2022

During Hurricane Florence, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) like this one in Warsaw, North Carolina, flooded the surrounding community with hog waste. (Photo credit: Justin Cook for Earthjustice)

Students Are Building the Next Generation of Farmworker Advocates

October 24, 2022

Young organizers with Student Action with Farmworkers visit a labor camp in eastern North Carolina. (Photo courtesy of SAF)

As the Pacific Lamprey Declines, Native Tribes Work to Protect Sacred Eel-Like Fish

By B. Toastie, High Country News

October 21, 2022

A member of the Yakama Nation plucks a Pacific lamprey off the rocks at Willamette Falls, Oregon. (Photo credit: Mason Trinca/High Country News)

Will a Buffett-Funded Co-op in the Hudson Valley Boost Food Access or Lead to Gentrification?

By Will Solomon

October 20, 2022

After 60 Years, ‘Silent Spring’ Is Still Changing the World

October 19, 2022

Rachel Carson and the original cover of Silent Spring