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Op-ed by Jim Goodman, Anthony Pahnke, and Mark Perrone (UFCW): Food Safety Ignored in USMCA
Originally posted December 24, 2019, at www.thehill.com. America’s food safety takes back seat in new trade deal American consumers today are empowered with more information than ever before. With smartphones, social media, and countless online reviews at their fingertips, it’s never been easier to learn everything about the products they buy. But when it comes to the ...
Op-Ed by Patti Naylor – Reform Failing Agribusiness Model through Agroecology
Originally posted October 15, 2019, at desmoinesregister.com Our food and agriculture system is in crisis. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) finds that global hunger has increased to 820 million people – 1 in 9 – while malnutrition has skyrocketed to 2 billion people – about 1 in 4. Meanwhile, farmers globally face chronically low ...
NAFTA: Putting family farmers out of business since 1994
Op-ed by Patti Naylor, Darvin Bentlage, John Harter and Christopher Mosel Originally posted August 30, 2019, at desmoinesregister.com Two longtime Iowa politicians, Sen. Charles Grassley and now dairy industry lobbyist Tom Vilsack, held a press conference recently touting the gains for farmers from President Trump’s newly negotiated NAFTA. We’re family farmers and we’ve heard this same line ...
Op-ed by George Naylor – Agriculture or agribusiness? As Iowa goes…
Originally posted at desmoinesregister.com Here we go again. Presidential hopefuls are descending on Iowa like saviors from on high, feigning to listen to “we, the voters.” With frequent news stories about how our farming practices affect others downstream (like water consumers in Des Moines and fishers in the Gulf of Mexico), or how patented GMO seed ...
Our perspectives and voices of our members in selected national and local media in the last year.