Anti-trust back from the brink?
The last time there was real appetite for going after anti-competitive practices in the grocery business was the 1930s. The…
Oh, Farm Bill, where did you go so wrong?
FERN partnered with Mother Jones on this reeeeally good look at five historical turning points when the US Farm Bill…
Can good food ever be huge?
I’m just catching up on this fairly amazing report out of the UK from last fall, flatly challenging the idea…
On being “the other other half”
Fellow Canadian Jon Randell Smith has a soul-searching post on Eating an Island about food security that resonates with what…
The unfinished industrial past OLD POST
As someone interested in the processes by which some piece of life becomes framed as “past,” I find industrial history…
