FOOD | HEALTH | DEMOCRACY
FOOD | HEALTH | DEMOCRACY
by Will Pry, American Heart Association When one of the elders in the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska asked if he could keep bees on the reservation, Tim Rhodd’s answer was straightforward: “Absolutely.” Soon, the bees started buzzing in the…
Recent lawsuits say Arrowhead, Evian, Poland Spring, and other water bottlers are deceiving customers. Source: Grist | May 23, 2024 | by Joseph WInters Is bottled water really “natural” if it’s contaminated with microplastics? A series of lawsuits recently filed…
Free-roaming animals reintroduced in Romania’s Țarcu mountains are stimulating plant growth and securing carbon stored in the soil while grazing Source: Guardian | The Age of Extinction | by Graeme Green A herd of 170 bison reintroduced to Romania’s Țarcu…
Source: Bioneers | Talk by Merlin Sheldrake Before plants evolved their own root systems, fungi provided the connection to the soil that enabled plants to move from water onto land. These underground networks remain crucial to plants’ survival, exchanging nutrients,…
Sharp rise in number of people facing a crisis in freedom of speech, while authors particularly alarmed by deterioration in India under Narendra Modi Source: Guardian | by Kaamil Ahmed Half the world’s population cannot freely speak their mind according…
Cows are not the problem. It’s the way they’re managed and farmed that is creating a climate problem, says Peter Byck, a professor of practice at Arizona State University’s sustainability school and producer of the 2020 short film series Carbon Cowboys and…
Source: The Seattle Times | April 15, 2024 | Opinion | by Pam Lewison The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released data from the U.S. Census of Agriculture and the numbers are shocking. Between 2017 and 2022, our state lost 3,717 farms and…
Scource: BBC News | April 13, 2024 | by Bernd Debusmann Jr. Approximately 18,000 cows were killed in a blast at a Texas dairy farm earlier this week, according to local authorities. The explosion, at South Fork Dairy near the…
Source: NPR | April 5, 2024 | by Julie Depenbrock The indigenous leaders of New Zealand, Tahiti, Tonga and the Cook Islands have signed a treaty granting whales legal personhood. It’s a step Māori conservationist Mere Takoko says will pressure…
In Occupy Wall Street, Some Small Farmers Find a Natural Ally The Huffington Post | By Turnstyle News, Contributor | Dec 20, 2011 On a practical level, farmers have been involved in Occupy Wall Street almost since the movement’s emergence. As…