Today President Biden signed an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. It includes the agriculture sector. He intends for the Department of Agriculture to toughen enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act by making rules that clearly identify unfair and unjust practices, reinforce the interpretation that a violation of the act doesn't … Continue reading Competition in the American Economy
Category: Commodity agriculture
Commodity agriculture, big ag, industrial agriculture, conventional agriculture, monocropping. That behemoth, whatever you call it, that we all love to hate.
Countdown to Destruction
This is the first of three videos in a series by Greenpeace called Countdown to Destruction. This episode, Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?, is about the environmental danger posed by commodity agriculture. Below the video are links to the remaining two episodes. https://www.youtube.com/embed/9TSpxd0y2YA Episode 2: Can we fix our broken food system? … Continue reading Countdown to Destruction
Acorns and Alligators 