The End of Russia and Ukraine’s Grain Deal Is Bad News For The Global Food Supply
A worker cleans grain after trucks unloaded in a grain elevator in Melitopol, Ukraine.AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In July 2022, the United Nations and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan helped broker the Black Sea Grain Initiative: A deal between Russia and Ukraine…
Alaskan Fishing Boats Are Poaching Threatened Canadian Salmon
A sockeye (red salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka) in British Columbia’s Horsefly River.Mark Conlin/VW PICS/UIG/Getty This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. American fishing boats catching threatened Canadian salmon was flagged as a top concern for federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray before meeting with the US ambassador…
State Legislatures Are Cracking Down on Foreign Land Ownership
High Country News/Library of Congress This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Chinese surveillance balloon seen over Montana in January riled up state legislatures and got them asking the question: How much control should foreign countries have over US land and natural resources? Senate…
California Farm Labor Bill Puts Gavin Newsom on the Spot
Mother Jones illustration; Mandel Ngan/AP; Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Thanks to an epic organizing campaign by the United Farm Workers (UFW), which began in the 1960s and faced violent opposition, California became a farm labor paradise, relatively…
Report: Trump Officials Helped Meatpackers Thwart Covid Safety Measures
Workers at a Missouri pork-processing facility in 2017, prior to the pandemic.Preston Keres/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire This investigation was originally published by the Guardian. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Trump officials “collaborated” with the meatpacking industry to downplay the threat of Covid to plant workers and block public health measures which could…
‘Tis the Season for Wasting Tons of Food
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On December 11, a TikTok user named @dumpsterdivingfreegan uploaded a video showing a bounty of packaged and unopened food products that the account claimed came straight from a Whole Foods dumpster. “Dumpster diving at Whole Foods is…