Agribusiness

Cory Booker's halt on factory farms would help the climate

Originally published by Common Dreams on January 15, 2020. 

EU-Mercosur deal lets agribusiness off the hook and exacerbates climate crisis

In August, out-of-control fires in the Amazon brought home the connections between the destruction of the rain forest, factory farms producing meat for international markets and global warming. Media attention may have moved on to newer wi

Taking farmers for a ride

This story was first published at Other Words on May 29, 2019. Over the last year, President Trump has taken farmers on a roller coaster ride that’s finally gone off the rails.

COP 24: Time to draw the line between agribusiness and agriculture

For an agriculture decision in 2020 to be meaningful, substantive and truly allow for agriculture to contribute to the 1.5°C pathway and become climate resilient, the UNFCCC, governments and IGOs must begin today to make a distinction between agribusiness and agriculture (including the food growers that represent 88 percent of global farmlands).

Uprooted Episode 48: Paying out trade aid to Smithfield

Josh talks with Steve Suppan about how the aid, intended for farmers to ease the pain that was inflicted due to the trade war with China, is, in fact, likely ending up in the coffers of a Chinese owned corporation, Smithfield, and other ways in which the giant hog corporation is pushing its costs onto tax payers. 

Bailing out a Chinese-owned, U.S.-located hog corporation subsidiary

Due to President Trump's trade war and ensuing farmer bailout, Chinese-owned WH Group will likely be the beneficiary of large sums of U.S. taxpayer dollars through its Smithfield subsidiary.

Food Safety Foes? Digital Ledger Technology vs. Confidential Business Information

As of June 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stated that they could not determine the site-specific origins of the contamination by the E. coli (STEC) 0157 of romaine lettuce that began in late 2017.

The Meaty Side of Climate Change

This article first appeared on Project Syndicate, December 19, 2017.