USDA standards for school lunches are truly byzantine and bizarre. Occasionally the media picks up on them, as in the recent incident where pizza was classified as a vegetable under the rules, but they go much deeper than that, and illustrate the influence of industrial agriculture on the standards in a pretty profound way. This […]
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Food Sovereignty Is Not Impossible
One of the myths most frequently repeated in defense of big agriculture, when people promote food sovereignty as an alternative, is that it simply isn’t sustainable for the volume of people living on Earth. The implication is that while it is nice for people to eat local when and where they can, it’s not realistic […]