President Biden’s Trustbusters Aren’t Just Experts on Tech. They Know About Big Ag.
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.President Joe Biden looks like he’s ready to bust up some monopolies, and it’s not just tech oligarchs who should be worried. After he tapped antitrust stalwarts Lina Kahn to the…
White Farmers Got 97 Percent of Last Year’s Ag Bailout. Now Some Are Mad Black Farmers Are Getting Debt Relief.
Airing their grievances: White farmers dish to Fox News about being excluded from government support.Fox News/screenshot 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 recently passed $1.9 trillion COVID-relief bill set aside $5 billion in aid, mainly debt…
A COVID Outbreak at a California Meatpacking Plant Started a Year Ago—and Never Went Away
A woman wears a facemask while walking past the Farmer John Slaughterhouse in Los Angeles, CA. Frederic J. Brown/Getty 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 story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network.…
$5 Billion of the Stimulus Bill Seeks to Undo Damage Done to Farmers of Color
Virginia farmer John Boyd drives his tractor near the the Capitol in Washington in 2010.Manuel Balce Ceneta/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 US Department of Agriculture exists in part to help farmers “guard against…
We Throw Out More Than 2 Trillion Pounds of Food Every Year, UN Says
picture alliance/ Getty 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 story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as a part of the Climate Desk collaboration. People waste more than two trillion pounds of food a year, a…
Why Do Meatpacking Workers Face Such Gruesome Conditions?
Workers process pork at a Tyson plant in Storm Lake, Iowa. Tyson Foods 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.So far during the coronavirus pandemic, 284 meatpacking workers have died from the virus, and 57,453 have tested…