Perspectivas

Por qué no podemos compensar nuestro camino hacia un sistema alimentario justo y humano
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, los estadounidenses no cubrirán los empleos de la agroindustria. Las corporaciones prefieren que sea así.
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

Las medidas antiagricultores de Trump están diseñadas para alejarnos de un mejor sistema alimentario
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…

La agroindustria está secando el Oeste
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…