Insights
Why we can’t “offset” our way to a just and humane food system
At FarmSTAND, we’re optimists. That doesn’t mean we have Pollyannaish hope. It means we lean into the hard work of making tangible change in our food system day by day,…
No, Americans Won’t Fill Big Ag Jobs. Corporations Prefer It That Way.
In creatively cruel ways, President Trump is making good on his promise to carry out the largest mass deportation in history. Across the country, heavily armed federal agents in camouflage…
MAHA’s Report Proves It Can’t and Won’t Fix Our Food System
Donald Trump and RFK Jr. claim their administration will “Make America Healthy Again,” but their most recent report shows that MAHA can’t deliver the changes to our food system we…
Big Business is Using Trump’s Playbook to Quash Climate Activism
The biggest polluters increasingly use SLAPP and Anti-SLAPP to evade legal accountability
Trump’s Anti-Farmer Moves Are Designed to Keep Us From A Better Food System
Devastated. Betrayed. Heartbroken. Like the rug was pulled out from under them — that’s how farmers describe the Trump Administration’s sudden dismantling of several Biden-era programs that had begun to…
Big Ag Is Drying Up the West
In the American West, water scarcity is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, with severe droughts and dwindling water supplies impacting rural communities, urban centers, and the natural environment. One of…
Trump’s Plan for Bird Flu is a Big Ag Giveaway
Eggs have been getting a lot of time in the spotlight lately. As egg prices continue to skyrocket in the early months of the second Trump administration, USDA Secretary Brooke…
The Racist Roots of Industrial Ag’s Favorite Loopholes
Stopping Agricultural Exceptionalism’s Harm to the Environment and Workers Keeps Getting More Important
Aquaculture’s Big Catch: Corporate Control
Nothing better illustrates the grim transformation of U.S. aquaculture than Maine’s Cobscook Bay. In the 1970s, local families in the bay employed local workers at smaller-scale salmon farms of 3-4…