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…
Biden Would Be a Fool Not to Break Up Huge Food Conglomerates
Richard B. Levine/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.During the contest for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vt.) ran on a message of progressive rural populism. Among other things,…
What Biden’s Pick for USDA Chief Will Reveal About How He Intends to Govern
Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge (left); former North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp (right)Paul Sancya/AP; Ann Arbor Miller/AP 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.As the Biden-Harris transition pushes forward, even without cooperation from the defeated incumbent, speculation is…
Seventy-Two Thousand Food Workers Have Contracted COVID-19. OSHA Is Ignoring Them.
Dr. Niki Davis joins a protest in Salt Lake City on July 30, 2020, to lobby Gov. Gary Herbert to close meatpacking plants in the state. The protest was organized by members of the Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which contends meatpacking plants have contributed to too many coronavirus cases in Utah and across…