January 12, 2022 The Power Behind the Flower: EPA Special Agents 101 In my investigation of environmental crime — Grease thieves, corn oil and fraud: How biofuel scam artists bilked U.S. taxpayers of billions — I…
April 20, 2021 The High Cost of Cheap McDonald’s Fries Co-written with Honor the Earth’s Winona LaDuke and first published at Civil Eats. For 50 years, a single company has extracted millions in profits…
November 18, 2016 Love It Or Leave It? For a country founded on rebellion, secession movements are an unsurprisingly popular American tradition. From the tongue-in-cheek variety of mock revolt practiced by Key…
August 1, 2016 Love it or Leave it News: The Republic of Kinney The ROA is feeling severe shame in not knowing until now that freedom-loving citizens in the neighboring state of Minnesota pulled off a “tongue…
June 16, 2016 Love It or Leave It News: Boys State Brain Force In Texas, where misguided secession talk is as ubiquitous as barbecue, a recent move to seriously debate rebelling from the Republic was defeated at…
October 23, 2015 Food Fight: A DC Food and Farm Policy Talk Show National Food Day is Saturday, underscoring how the way our food is grown, raised, produced, bought, sold, shared, and consumed has grabbed the national…
May 22, 2015 This Senator is a Food and Farm Powerhouse When Congress talks food and farming, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) is there. From 2011 to 2014, she was chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee,…
April 26, 2015 TJ’s Garden Spent a lovely morning touring Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. The garden was just starting to erupt. From the official Monticello site: Thomas Jefferson’s 1,000-foot-long, terraced…
April 8, 2015 Love It Or Leave It News: Heartland is Fracked Edition New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas over environmental concerns has driven some residents desperate for extraction income…
March 31, 2015 An Incoherent Salad Bar of Attacks This morning Julie Kelly and Jeff Stier took aim at chef, restaurant owner and MSNBC food correspondent Tom Colicchio’s food and farm activism. In…
