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  • Moyers on Democracy
    The Pollinators: This Film Only Matters if You Eat Food
    June 15, 2020

    The Pollinators takes you on a journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat. You need to see this film if you eat food.

  • Health & Science
    Food Industry has Trump's Administration Where It Wants It
    November 17, 2017
    | Alana Toulin
    Big business has appropriated cultural discussions surrounding food in the US in a way that boosted profits rather than protecting consumers. And the Trump administration looks like it's ready to go along.
  • Economy & Work
    How a Kansas Town Held off a Tyson Plant
    September 25, 2017
    | Twilight Greenaway
    Tonganoxie residents are the latest in a wave of rural communities standing up to Big Ag.
  • Environment
    An Iceberg Broke Off Antarctica and I'm Thinking About Food
    July 17, 2017
    | Erin Sagen
    Climate change is getting worse, and policymakers are ignoring one of the biggest factors.
  • Democracy & Government
    Donald Trump to Hungry Seniors: Drop Dead
    May 26, 2017
    | Trudy Lieberman
    Some 10 million elders are threatened by hunger — but the president’s budget would slash desperately needed funding for food programs.
  • Activism
    Making Change: Tony Hillery
    May 9, 2017
    A former limo driver describes how his life's work took a surprising turn.
  • Activism
    Why Frances Moore Lappé Is Taking on Democracy Reform
    November 11, 2016
    | Kathy Kiely
    "A democracy movement is the only way to address the very real wrongs that are happening," says the author of Diet for a Small Planet.
  • Environment
    The Developing World is Awash in Pesticides. Does It Have to Be?
    July 5, 2016
    | Aleszu Bajak
    Herbicides, insecticides and fungicides threaten the environment and human health in many parts of the world. But research is pointing to a better approach.
  • Environment
    Invasion of the Hedge Fund Almonds
    January 27, 2015
    | Tom Philpott
    It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the hedge-fund-fueled race to plant thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought.
  • Economy & Work
    The Horrifying Reason Why Your Fruit Is Unblemished
    January 2, 2015
    | Tom Philpott
    While the produce is coddled, the workers face a different reality, with conditions that often approach slavery.


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