How Did Europe Avoid the COVID-19 Catastrophe Ravaging US Meatpacking Plants?
Michael Conroy/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This story was produced by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a non-profit news organization. In late April, around the time that President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring US meatpacking plants to be “critical infrastructure” in an effort…
A Federal Court Just Halted Use of a Highly Controversial Herbicide
Shtrunts/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Wednesday afternoon, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco made a ruling that sent shockwaves through Midwestern and Southern farm country: It vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’ registrations of a weed-killing chemical that has surged in use in…
The Feds Just Indicted Meatpacking Moguls for Driving Up the Price of Your Chicken
Did Big Chicken make its profits even tastier by colluding to push up wholesale prices? bhofack2/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Still reeling from COVID-19 outbreaks among slaughterhouse workers, the US poultry industry has another major problem on its hands: Several executives were just indicted by the…
Trump’s Latest Farm Bailout Is Great—If You’re a Huge Corporate Farmer
Hillary Wilson Kimmel and Worth Kimmel at PTB Farm in Reidsville, NC. For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Hillary Wilson Kimmel runs PTB Farm with her husband, Worth, outside of Greensboro, North Carolina. They raise hogs, cattle, and sheep on pasture and grow vegetables, all of which they…
There Is a Way to Bring Back Most Restaurants
Aja Koska/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over on Eater, Hillary Dixler Canavan has the scoop on how Noma, the legendary Copenhagen fine-dining temple, plans to adjust to the COVID-19 crisis: by re-opening as an outdoor burger-and-wine bar. For us in the United States, the saddest part…
36 Million People Are Unemployed and the Trump Administration Is Still Trying to Cut Food Stamps
A member of the National Guard distributes foodMary Junell/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In just two months, the coronavirus has cost more than 86,000 people their lives and 36 million people have lost their jobs, but the Trump administration is still trying to cut food stamps.…