This post was written by Regina Weiss and was originally posted on the Green Fork.
Attorney General Eric Holder urged to enforce antitrust laws to protect poultry growers
Today, poultry growers from throughout the south told Attorney General Eric Holder that the US poultry business operates through price fixing and production controls that stifle fair competition [...]
Daily Table fans – we apologize for the lack of content on our blog this week. We had some problems with our server and are glad to be back on line. Meanwhile, it’s been a fabulous week for the program – with scintillating coverage in The Washington Post, Huffington Post and more. Check it out [...]
Here is another post from the illustrious Lorna Sass, originally published at Lorna Sass at Large.
Remember when President Jimmy Carter visited the blighted south Bronx, with the result that images of burned-out houses and trash-stewn lots flashed across TV screens all over the nation? That visit and the movie, The [...]
Cross-posted from The Green Fork.
Roundup Ready Alfalfa Hits the Supreme Court Monsanto has taken a ruling against the deregulation of genetically engineered alfalfa (pending the results of an environmental impact study, which sounds pretty reasonable) to the Supreme Court, which will rule on the case by the end of June. Supreme Court [...]
This post came to us from Erin McCarthy and was originally posted on the Green Fork.
Yesterday, at the historic site of the old Fulton Fish Market, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn held a press conference to announce the launch of “NYers 4 Markets,” a coalition to support the development of a permanent [...]
James Rose is a Policy Analyst at Network for New Energy Choices, where this post was originally published.
While the fuel is free, renewable systems have high upfront costs. Providing a set of incentives is essential to making renewable projects financially feasible. State policymakers are aware of this, and a [...]
New York City recently passed a regulation banning bake sales from public schools with the exception of one per month and after 6 PM (when no one is around). So what’s left to sell? Doritos, pop-tarts, bags of cookies and other processed junk-food permitted by the Department of Education. Instead of home-baked items prepared with [...]
Which is to say, she asks some tough questions that probably shouldn’t be so tough to answer. Couric’s recent series on the use of antibiotics in industrial livestock production – which she refers to several times as factory farming – made a splash in the food issue blogosphere, but what folks might not know [...]
Typical studies for middle and high school students include calculus, biology, history and chemistry, but let’s face it, who really remembers the atomic weight of Scandium? While some lessons are quickly learned and quickly forgotten, there are certain themes that stick with students, particularly those affecting and applicable to everyday life. The recently released No [...]
This post comes from Kerry Trueman at the Green Fork Blog.
The horror in Haiti is beyond anything we can imagine in the U.S., but this apocalyptic catastrophe has something in common with Hurricane Katrina; in both cases, a terrible natural disaster was made infinitely worse by human negligence and incompetence. How many thousands of [...]
