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How Four Years of Trump Reshaped Food and Farming
Nov 2, 2020 · In 2017, the EPA reversed an Obama-era ban on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide the agency previously determined was linked to brain damage in children. After battling lawsuits, …
What the Story of DDT, America’s Most Notorious Chemical, Can …
Jul 6, 2022 · Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, or DDT, is a notorious pesticide that was once considered a panacea in the United States. It was unleashed with abundance from the 1940s …
After ‘Super Size Me’: In Conversation with Morgan Spurlock
Nov 16, 2010 · In 2004, Morgan Spurlock‘s documentary film Super Size Me debuted. In it, Spurlock eats McDonald’s food for 30 days straight. This extreme experiment sought to …
Op-ed: What I Learned from White Oak Pastures—and What Other …
Feb 24, 2022 · My husband John and I moved from San Francisco to Iowa in 2019 to take over his family’s fifth-generation, 540-acre farm, raising cattle and goats on pasture through …
The Land Back Movement Is Also About Foodways | Civil Eats
Feb 12, 2024 · For Tilsen and other Native thought leaders, the contemporary Land Back movement is about championing Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and economic …
400 Years After the Slave Trade Began, Tracing the Roots of …
Dec 5, 2019 · After Emancipation in 1863, African Americans began to write cookbooks that reached the mainstream public. In 1881, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern …
How The Fry Bread House, a Mainstay of Indigenous Cuisine, …
May 11, 2020 · On a recent Thursday, the lunch rush at The Fry Bread House in central Phoenix was more of a trickle. By noon, there were a few cars in the sunny lot, which had always been …
Project 2025 Spells Out Big Changes to US Agriculture - Civil Eats
Jul 22, 2024 · As of March 2024, the most recent month for which data is available, more than 301,000 farms had close to 25 million acres enrolled in CRP; that’s a lot of acreage, but it …
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Welcome to Civil Eats, an award-winning news site dedicated to critical thinking about the American food system. At a time when political divisions and the climate crisis fan our fears …