Especially these days, it can feel like nobody in government is looking out for the public's welfare, which is supposed to be its main job. And when it comes to food and agriculture's effects on pub
Last month, Center for Food Safety (CFS) launched a new report and website for consumers seeking to disrupt the intensive confinement model of food animal production. With sections including "Ten Re
In a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal titled "The Organic Industry is Lying to You," Henry I. Miller claims that the organic food industry is guilty of "false and deceptive advertisin
This op-ed was originally published on Honolulu Civil Beat.
This past May, the Idaho-based Big Island Dairy confirmed that they dumped 2.3 million gallons of cow manure-tainted water into the stream
In July 2018, Hawaii's governor, David Ige, signed a law that will ban the sale of sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate starting in 2021. The landmark legislation aims to protect Hawaii's
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On May 29, 2018, the Department of Justice (DoJ) gave its blessing to the mother of all agribusiness mergers, the union of pesticide-seed conglomerates Bayer AG and the Monsanto Company. Germany-based
Adam Keats in Water & Power. Still from the documentary.
Photo credit: National Geographic
The recent National Geographic documentary, Water and Power: A California Heist, highlights the severe impac
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) recently introduced new legislation, the Genetically Engineered Salmon Labeling Act (S.1528), which would require genetically engineered salmon to be labeled as "genetica
In 2015, the FDA approved genetically engineered salmon, the first ever GE animal to be approved for human consumption anywhere in the world. The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and the Affiliated Tribes of
We appreciate our planet, its ecosystem, and the food it produces. Here are 4 ways you can celebrate the Earth!
Save the bees by choosing pollinator-friendly plants for your garden to provide bees wit
From left to right: Autumn Rae Ness, Senator Maile Shimabukuro, Lauryn Rego
Hawaiian Sovereignty has a lot to do with food security in Hawai'i. For 125 years, history and politics in Hawai’i have been
Originally published on Alternet.
With the help of the federal government, Monsanto is set to make things worse.
Last year's farm season was the first year Monsanto’s newly approved XtendiMax pesticid
For further documentation, see ¬Center for Food Safety’s comments to the Arkansas Plant Board on the State’s dicamba restrictions and Monsanto’s petition to rescind them
What is XtendiMax?XtendiMax is
Trump has gutted regulations meant to protect our food and ecosystems.
Read this on Alternet.
One year down, three to go. Trump and his enablers are hell bent on destroying or selling to the highest b
The Wonderful Company, maker of Halos mandarins and POM products, continues to give consumers misleading information about their use of oil wastewater to irrigate crops. Last October we reported on th