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Jim Goodman, a WK Kellogg Food and Society Policy Fellow, is an organic dairy farmer and farm activist from Wonewoc Wisconsin. Encouraging local food production and consumption in the industrialized north, allowing the global south sovereignty in food production and ensuring fair prices for all farmers are the goals of his work. Small farmers and consumers have little voice in these matters, so there is a need to look for the media outlets that let people communicate without being marginalized by the corporate food system.
(1 comments)Tuesday, September 9, 2008 We're The Real Cowboys SHARE
With 2008 elections in two months, after eight years of lies, ineptitude, war and trickle down economics that never trickled down. We need to elect some candidates with common sense that were not born to privilege.
(2 comments)Wednesday, July 23, 2008 We Need To Eat Locally Again SHARE
Because we have a globalized food system, we have a food crisis. Food is shipped all over the world, poor countries are not allowed to feed themselves and the industrialized world depends on food grown "somewhere else". We need to end this nonsense and get back to local and regional food production world-wide.