Rural America

Rural Stories Making Headlines (July 9, 2016)

Rural America In These Times

Glyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae Bloom

Lorraine Chow

Biotech Reps and GMO Regs: Conflicts of Interest at the National Academy of Sciences

Jonathan R. Latham

Scalawags, Rednecks, Mudsills and Swamp People: 400 Years on America’s Fringe

John Collins

Extractive Economies Threaten an Ancient Grain in Minnesota

Laray Polk

North Dakota Voters Side With Family Farms and Continue 84-Year-Old Ban on Corporate Ownership

Alex McLeese

“We’ve Broken the Planet”: A Case for Liberation Ecology and the Rights of Nature

Thomas Linzey

What Will it Take to Build a Local Foods Movement?

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Competing with Petroleum by 2010: An Official U.S. Energy Report from 1989

Rural America In These Times

Organic Industry Watchdog Calls USDA ‘Animal Welfare’ Rulemaking a Betrayal of Farmers and Consumers

The Cornucopia Institute

Why Philanthrocapitalism, Technology and Good Intentions Have Failed to End Hunger

David Rieff

The War Prayer

Mark Twain

Solving the 10,000-Year-Old Problem of Agriculture: An Interview with Wes Jackson

Allen White

America First, Planet be Damned: Trump Calls for Orgy of Extraction in North Dakota Energy Speech

John Collins

Voters in Oregon Defeat Nestlé’s Attempt to Privatize Their Water

Alexis Bonogofsky, Truthout

Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are

Elizabeth Henderson

The Rural Healthcare Crisis: Why Obamacare Needs to Cure Itself…and Soon

John Collins

Big Oil Plots to Exclude Public from Public Land Auctions

Steve Horn