“Everyone Is Tired of Always Staying Silent”: Inside a Worker Rebellion in the Central Valley
It was still dark when Veronica Perez arrived at Primex Farms, a nut-packing facility in California’s Kern County. Crickets murmured in the almond and pistachio groves stretching for acres in all directions. Once inside the building’s mirrored doors, Perez would usually stand next to other sorters alongside a conveyor belt, picking out blemished pistachios. But…
Biden Picks Stale White Bread to Lead the USDA
Tom Vilsack speaks at a DuPont facility in Iowa, 2013. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.For much of his latest presidential bid, Joe Biden ran as a restorationist: a figure who would vanquish…
Will Biden Pick a USDA Secretary Who Sees Our Food Crises Clearly?
Joe Biden campaigns in Iowa, June 2019.Matthew Putney/AP Photo Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The next secretary of the US Department of Agriculture will confront two of the most dire problems facing the nation: spiking levels…
The House Ag Committee Has Its First Black Chairman
Rep. David Scott( D-Ga.) will chair the House Ag Committee in the next Congress. Bill O’Leary/Associated Press Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The 2020 election sent shockwaves through US food and farm policy circles. The defeat…
A Netflix Doc Wants to Fix Our Food System With Capitalism. “Gather” Argues That’s How It Broke.
Apache forager Twila Cassadore.Courtesy Gather Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Early on in Gather, a new documentary about Native Americans searching for food sovereignty, we follow Nephi Craig on a tour of a former gas station…
These Rare Seeds Escaped Syria’s War and Now Are Helping to Feed the World
Svalbard Global Seed Vault.Yonhap News/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In 2014, the remaining staff of the International Center for…