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Using Regionally Grown Grains and Pulses in School Meals

Best Practices for using regionally grown grains and legumes in school meals

Drawing upon citizens' voices: Deep democracy in action

What does it mean to participate in a democracy? Does the answer change when it comes to the food system?

Let’s give food and farmers a fighting chance!

IATP’s commitment to take on the big issues and important fights was what first drew me to the organization many years ago. Now, as IATP’s president, I’m honored to continue that commitment.

Stop the DARK Act and label food containing GMOs!

The efforts by millions of citizens across the country to label food containing GMOs must have touched a nerve.

“Conversations” on technological utopias vs. tackling structural injustice in the global food system

This year’s World Food Prize and Borlaug Dialogue, held from October 17–19, 2014 in Des Moines, Iowa once again brought together the big gun stakeholders in industrial agriculture, and provided many insights to the current framing on the global food security challenge.

Don't let Big Meat eat our bumper crop

The last few years have not been good for the factory farm industry.  High prices for corn and other crops (in part driven by the growth of ethanol) made feed costs incredibly high, while at the same time, environmental and animal welfare advocates have been winning ballot and marketplace battles to shift more meat production out of intensive confinement and industrial systems.  Hog a

Big Meat Swallows the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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Babe’s new diet: Nanomaterials in animal feed

How much would you pay for a pork chop that was two percent leaner? Would you eat such a pork chop if nanoscale minerals were mixed into the hog feed to achieve that two percent reduction?

Whose Century Is It?: The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Food and the “21st-Century Trade Agreement”

The future of trade deals?

From GMO to SMO: how synthetic biology evades regulation

Products derived from synthetic biology (popularly called synbio), a rapidly growing new technology, are beginning to enter the marketplace without a regulatory framework in place that provides for pre-market safety assessment of its unique risks to health and the environment.