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Author: Erik Loomis

House Republicans are moving forward in their ultimate goal of entrenching poverty, passing a farm bill that slashes food stamps. Steve King talks of food stamps that "expand the dependency class," words that could have come out of the mouth of any bog standard Gilded...
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Tom Philpott reports on a new job safety hazard developing in agriculture. The enormous manure piles on today's gargantuan hog farms are gurgling up explosive foam. This never really happened before 2009, but it is an increasingly common occurrence on industrial-scale hog farms. The problem...

Ag-Gag

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On May 14, 2013

Pretty big environmental and agricultural news out of Tennessee. Governor Bill Haslam, who is generally terrible on everything, has vetoed a so-called "ag-gag" bill, which would have criminalized whistleblowing and.

Fallout from Bangladesh

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On May 13, 2013
I am highly skeptical of the real motives here, but I am glad Wal-Mart is publicly calling for improved worker safety in Bangladesh. That said, it's pretty clear that a) Wal-Mart could play a far more active role in the conditions of the workers who...
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