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…
Will the Defeat of Democrat Collin Peterson Be Good for the Climate?
Collin Peterson holds forth at a farm bill rally in 2013. Karin Elton/AP Photo/The Independent For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Even before the apparent defeat of President Donald Trump, the 2020 election has already shaken up US farm policy. Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), the…
As Election Day Nears, Trump’s EPA Chief Gives Georgia Cotton Farmers the Gift of a Nasty Pesticide
Young cotton plants get a dose of pesticide. Balefire9/iStock / Getty Images Plus For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The Georgia electorate has swung to Republican candidates in every presidential election since 1996; but this year, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has edged ahead…
Hygiene Theater at Restaurants Is Creating Endless Plastic Waste
Curt Merlo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Andrea Reusing, a James Beard Award–winning chef, has dozens of decisions to make about how to keep her employees and customers safe when she reopens the patio of Lantern, her popular Chapel Hill, North Carolina, restaurant.…
We Can Tackle Hunger and Joblessness at the Same Time
Curt Merlo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Back in March, as coronavirus cases were just beginning to surge and cities were locking down, chef and globe-trotting disaster-relief activist José Andrés called for a federal mobilization to combat the coming “economic catastrophe” and the…
Sami Tamimi’s “Falastin” Is an Ode to the Complex Food and History of Palestine
Traditionally, chicken musakhan was made around the olive oil pressing season in October or November to celebrate (and gauge the quality of) the freshly pressed oil.Jenny Zarins For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On the international stage, discussion of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (as the United Nations calls…