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The Real Truth About Health Dec 5, 2019 We Have Saturated The Earth With Really Dangerous Toxins by Caitlin Shetterly Caitlin Shetterly is the author of Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future (Putnam, 2016) … Continue reading →

Democracy Now! Dec 1, 2019 Twenty years ago, tens of thousands of activists gathered in Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization and stop executives from signing a global trade deal that many felt was harmful to environmental and workers’ … Continue reading →

The Real Truth About Health Dec 1, 2019 Why Do We Use So Many Antibiotics On Healthy Animals To Grow Meat On American Factory Farms? By David Wallinga David Wallinga, the Food Dr., is a physician who’s spent his career … Continue reading →

FarmingFirstNov 28, 2019 How is Canada mitigating climate change? We interviewed Keith Curry from the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, on how Canadian farmers are working to sequester carbon and use their land to combat the climate crisis. Food-matters,

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave … Continue reading →

Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, … Continue reading →

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Nov 22, 2019 http://www.fao.org/climate-change/our… Agriculture experts from FAO member countries explain how the informal Koronivia Dialogue meetings organized by FAO provide a neutral space for discussions around the Koronivia Joint Work on … Continue reading →

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Nov 22, 2019 http://www.fao.org/climate-change/our… In this interview, Zitouni Ould-Dada, Deputy Director of FAO’s Climate and Environment Division, explains more about FAO’s role and why the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA) matters … Continue reading →

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Nov 19, 2019 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 55.6K subscribers The misuse and overuse of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, is causing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Every time we use antimicrobials to … Continue reading →

CGTN America Nov 18, 2019 Genetically modified food is a hot topic. Already, the majority of corn and soy grown in the U.S. has been genetically modified. But the science has also reached a range of other consumer products, and … Continue reading →