Milk Wars Milk Wars
As struggling dairy farmers seek profits by responding to rising consumer demand for raw milk, regulators are taking a hard line.
Mar 5, 2008 / Feature / David E. Gumpert
Long Roe to Hoe Long Roe to Hoe
Improving the sorry state of US reproductive health policy requires serious shifts within the women's movement and the abortion rights movement.
Jan 17, 2008 / Frances Kissling and Kate Michelman
Toy Story Toy Story
An eviscerated Consumer Product Safety Commission means American children still face perils from their toys.
Jan 3, 2008 / Daphne Eviatar
USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program
A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.
Dec 14, 2007 / Feature / William Pentland and David E. Gumpert
Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing
There is an alternative to unhealthy eating and irresponsible development schemes.
Dec 3, 2007 / Feature / Nevin Cohen
Luxury Grub Luxury Grub
What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.
Nov 19, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Old McDonald Had a Farm…and He Got Arrested? Old McDonald Had a Farm…and He Got Arrested?
As consumers increasingly seek out farmers who raise organic and unpasteurized food, suddenly energized regulators claim they want to "protect" us from pathogens and other dangers....
Nov 17, 2007 / Feature / David E. Gumpert
Du Côté de Chez Madame Defarge Du Côté de Chez Madame Defarge
These days, even London and Paris seem a bit like North Korea.
Nov 1, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
False Prophets False Prophets
James Watson continues his long and well-documented history of baselessly biologizing social stereotypes.
Nov 1, 2007 / Patricia J. Williams