According to a new United Nations climate report release last week, agricultural practices and people’s diets will need to change as rising temperatures diminish the earth’s ability to absorb dangerous emissions. UN panel calls for changes to farming, diets to stave off climate change: The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on … Read more
While the nation is transfixed with the tragedy of two mass shootings over the weekend, and the failure of our white nationalist president and his enablers in Congress to address white terrorism and gun violence with any serious legislation, you may have missed that Trump’s trade wars took a turn for the worse on Monday. … Read more
I touched on this report in a post yesterday, Another round of Trump’s farmer bribes set to roll out, but it turns out that this GOP socialist scheme to redistribute wealth does what one would expect: redistribute wealth upwards to the largest and wealthiest farmers. The Hill reports, Study: More than half of Trump farm … Read more
With Robert Mueller’s testimony sucking up all the media oxygen last week, you may have missed a couple of important stories. The latest tranche of bailout money from the Trump administration to bribe farmers to stick with Trump despite his disastrous trade policies that are financially ruining them is starting to roll out now. Another … Read more
America’s Midwest is experiencing the worst flooding since the Great Food of 1993. “Many farmers across wide swaths of the Midwest have rarely seen days dry enough to work, leading to what agricultural experts are calling a historically delayed planting season that could exacerbate the economic and personal anxieties brought on by a multiyear slump … Read more