Previous Food, Farming and Agriculture News 2024

How Trump Could Bring Fish Farms to the Gulf of Mexico 12-11-24

“If we care about climate change, we shouldn’t have them in our oceans.”


Protection of Wetlands Could Come Down to Farmers, Says a New Report 12-04-24

Industrial agriculture in the Upper Midwest has been a driving force behind wetland loss. The farm bill might hold a solution. Read more


Fighting the Corporate CAFO ‘Takeover’ of Rural America 11-28-24

In a new book, Sonja Trom Eayrs chronicles her family’s battle against factory hog farms in Minnesota. Read more


Op-ed: Food Security Is Urgently Needed in Black Rural Appalachia 11-19-24

A food justice advocate who grew up near this mountainous region explains how Black communities here struggle to access healthy food, and lays out ways to build local food systems that reach everyone.


Op-ed: What a Second Trump Administration Could Mean for Your Food 11-13-24

The likely scenarios: higher prices, less nutritious food, and an increased risk of pathogens in the food supply. And that’s not the half of it. Read more


Trump’s Proposed Mass Deportations Could ‘decimate’ the US Food Supply 10-15-24

If the Republican candidate carries out his immigration agenda, who will run America’s farms? Read more


California Could Lock in Disastrous Dairy Methane Rules, Advocates Warn 10-14-24

CARB could finally regulate methane emissions from the state’s huge dairy farms and eliminate the special treatment dairy biogas gets via its clean fuel program. Or not. Read more


Plant-based Meat Needs Government Support to Scale Up, But a Culture War Stands in the Way 07-25-24

Public funding helped electric vehicles go mainstream. Are alternative proteins next — or are they too polarizing? Read more


The People Who Feed America Are Going Hungry 07-17-24

Climate change is escalating a national crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs. Read more


The Climate Case For Mock Meats is Clear. But Who Can Afford Them? 06-24-24

An often insurmountable price barrier is keeping many people from buying plant-based alternatives to beef, pork and chicken. Read more


The World is Farming More Seafood Than it Catches. Is That a Good Thing? 06-14-24

Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts — and they overlap more than you’d think. Read more


Behind the ‘butter board’: How the Dairy Lobby Took Over Your Feed 05-10-24

A vast constellation of celebrities, from Kelly Ripa to the McDonald’s mascot Grimace, have helped push dairy sales. Read more


New Research Shows How the Meat Industry Infiltrated Universities to Obstruct Climate Policy 03-06-24

New research sheds light on the scope of the livestock industry’s influence over prominent agricultural research centers at two public universities.