Should the future of America's ag economy be controlled by industrializers and monopolizers who view food strictly as a profit center to be manipulated by and for the few? Or, should the future be modeled on the principles of grassroots producers, artisans, chefs, and consumers who understand that food is an essential element of life, community, and culture to be shared for the Common Good? Read more...
A massive depression has been building for years across our vast rural expanse, but don't feel alone if you didn't know, for most of our media and political establishments have failed to notice, much less inform the general public. In America's power centers, farming is almost entirely ignored as something arcane and "out there"--and out of mind. Read more...
We're in an ongoing, momentous struggle (cultural, economic, political, and moral) over the very nature and future of food, and our best path to victory is to forge coalitions of agricultural outsiders to confront and expose the self-enriching cabal of agribusiness insiders. Read more...
In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaignthat came tantalizingly close to getting the US Senate to reject Earl... Read more...
A FRIEND OF MINE TELLS A STORY about the political demise in the 1950s of an entrenched Oklahoma state representative,... Read more...
Even though winter still has its frigid grip on most of the land, I’m already thinking out-of-season, looking ahead... Read more...
Last April at the presidential Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, our very own George W. Bush attempted to... Read more...
Have you heard of the ‘Butterfly Effect?’ Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the... Read more...