(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Just label it,--- let the people decide Proposition 37 in California will siply give consumers the right to know if the food they buy contains Genetically Modified ingredients. No new burdens on farmers, or stores. Just a simple one line addition to the label.

(32 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 9, 2012
Don't Take My Vote For Granted The Democratic Party is taking the Progressive for granted. While Romney is the worst possible choice, why should we hold our nose and vote for 4 more years of broken promises?

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Why Our Food Safety Measures Are Failing Government regulators continue to skirt around the edges of the problem of e-coli contamination in our food supply.The real problem is a global food system controlled by a few multi-national corporations that value their profits above all else. Huge feedlots, processing plants where workers are pushed to work too fast and an underfunded inspection system. A recipe for disaster.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 7, 2009
Why Honor Organized Labor? Labor Day celebrates the contribution of organized labor to society and the gains won for all workers. The labor movement has always been linked with progressive social movements, civil rights, feminism and farm worker justice.

SHARE        Thursday, August 20, 2009
'Deathers' One, Obama Zero The chance for a public health insurance option is gone. Health insurance cooperatives may be offered as an option, a very weak one. Whatever is offered there will be no single payer, no universal coverage basically no real reform. Obama caved and protected the insurance industry. If you have insurance, get your checkbooks ready,the health insurance industry has nothing in their way now.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 10, 2009
Obama Needs to Take a Stand on Trade While on the campaign trail Obama railed against the "free trade" agreements that had cost the US millions of jobs, impoverished workers and farmers worldwide and were, at least, partially responsible for the beginning of the worldwide economic meltdown and food crisis. Now he can reverse some of that damage by ending the Security and Prosperity Partnership. He has broken enough campaign promises, it's timm to take a stand.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Health Insurance Industry Doesn't Deserve Our Trust Like so many other Americans, farmers often lack health insurance and more often than not, those that have it are underinsured. Farm state legislators refuse to put single payer health insurance"on the table". Easy for them, they have good insurance provided by the taxpayers and they also get a healthy dose of campaign contributions from the insurance industry that would stand to loose the most if singe payer were enacted.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The Dairy Oligarchy The dairy price crash is blamed on too much supply and too little demand. Truth is the dairy price crash is a result of ever increasing dairy imports.The big processors, Kraft, Deans want cheap milk and imports are cheaper than domestic product. Importing dairy from developing countries, thats OK as long as the corporations make a nice profit.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 10, 2009
Think Before You Eat, Agriculture and the Environment Industrial agriculture has devastating affects on the environment. The real cost of cheap food will come due in time. While eating local, sustainably raised food can only be part of the answer, we need to think about what we are eating and it's impact on the environment, farm workers and ourselves.

SHARE        Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Promises, Promises: That's All They Ever Give Us The G20, long on promises and faux concern for the masses, but never really serious about challenging the corporate control of the world economy. They talk tough, but always end up "dancing with them who brung ya".

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 20, 2009
USDA sees a problem, not the solution USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack is right, we do need to eat healthier foods, Cutting back on the acreage devoted to corn and soybeans may be the best way to start.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The automatons of Davos It was business as usual at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. Other than the parties and the opulence being toned down a bit, the power brokers of the world refused to take any blame for the world economic crash they had engineered through their agenda of free trade and globalization. The solution to the world's economic problems, more of the same. Trust us, that's the problem, we have trusted them far too long.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 11, 2009
Centrist Cabinet, Progressive President ? Why does Obama's cabinet look so much like a reunion of the Clinton administration? Why did a "good food" advocate like Obama pick a "big agriculture" advocate for his Secretary of Agriculture? Why does it look like progressives may not have a voice in the Obama White House? I wish I knew.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 3, 2009
Change We Can Believe In - Dumping Industrial Agriculture As the World Food Crisis continues into 2009 we will be told the only solution to feeding the world is expansion of industrial agriculture, Genetically Modified crops and more Globalization. These "solutions" are not the answer, but rather the problem.Studies tell us local regional food production using sustainable farming methods is our best hope to feed the world and protect the environment.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Food is Different Peasant farmers world wide are being driven off their farms by low prices, unfair subsidized competition from the developed North and corporate control of the food system. Farmers like Lee Kyung Hae are willing to die to protect their right to feed their communities. We need to do as much as we can to eat locally and let them farm as they wish.

SHARE        Tuesday, November 25, 2008
A Glimmer of Hope? There is a sense of hope worldwide with the election of Barack Obama. To him race is irrelevant and his elections gives us the chance to accept that. Progressives are correct in questioning his early appointments but we must all continue to question, suggest and in general fulfill our part of the bargain of democracy, make him do his job, and answer to us.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 1, 2008
Will a new Administration give us the "Safest food supply in the World"? The corporate food industry tells us our food system is safe. 25% of us will get food poisoning every year, obesity and diabetes are approaching epidemic proportions is that what they call safe? No,they mean they can safely say they will make a profit, no matter how many people they sicken.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 14, 2008
McCain and Obama Need to Talk Real Farm Policy McCain and Obama will not talk about agriculture policy or food. Why do they avoid such a critical topic, have they heard about the world food crisis? Since both are beholding to the agribusiness corporations that brought us the crisis perhaps they are hoping no one will notice?

SHARE        Saturday, August 23, 2008
G-8 Clueless On Food Policy The members of the G8 are far more interested in advancing the financial interests of multinational corporations than solving the problem of hunger in Africa and the rest of the global south. While enjoying an 18 course banquet, they cried crocodile tears for the hungry of the world.

SHARE        Sunday, August 3, 2008
Is bigger better, or is smaller the future? The current food crisis has many causes, but it is clear that globalization has failed. While the developing world starves they struggle to grow cash crops for the world market. We grow commodity crops and depend on the global food system to provide us cheap food. The party is over. The Green Revolution failed to feed the world, GM crops did not feed the world and so we are against the wall. We must return to local food.