I don’t often praise The New York Times, but this is a rare instance when I think I must. On September 23, the Times published an article by Jayson Lusk, an Oklahoma State University agricultural ...
Decades of industrial agriculture have caused environmental and social damage across the globe. Soils have deteriorated and plant and animal species are disappearing. Landscapes are degraded and small ...
Comment on industrial agriculture mostly appears in the mainstream only when something has gone awry. The current avian flu epidemic comes to mind, but it’s rare for the general public to step back ...
Although the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, in Glasgow is fast approaching, it’s already clear that the scope of proposed solutions is far outweighed by the scale of the ...
It’s never been clearer where the loyalties of congressional agriculture committees lie. In their seemingly endless quest to shift prosperity from small farmers to large ones — to erode any ...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 4, 2022) Agricultural intensification and climate change are driving unprecedented losses in insect abundance and biodiversity, placing key ecosystem functions like food ...
Anja Bless receives funding from the Australian Government research training program. Decades of industrial agriculture have caused environmental and social damage across the globe. Soils have ...
In low-income countries, meat isn’t the problem. U.S.-style animal agriculture is Bringing Western industrial animal agriculture—and its disastrous environmental and health impacts—to low-income ...