Since 2019, China has been the world’s largest importer of meat. Compared to the United States, China’s per-capita meat consumption […]

Anyone who has taken a high school freshman English class would say that adjoining and adjacent do not mean the […]

After a developer began eyeing rural northwest Wisconsin for a large swine farm, five small towns enacted ordinances aimed at […]

In 2022, the farm bankruptcy rate in the U.S. was the lowest since the Chapter 12 process was made permanent […]

June has brought the release of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) updated Guideline for Controlling […]

Maryuri embarked on her three-month journey from Venezuela to the U.S. in July 2022, crossing nine borders on crutches with a broken foot. She traveled with her son, now 9 years old. Their path included traversing the often deadly Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama.  She fled an economic crisis that left her unable to […]
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This is the second article in an ongoing series looking at how changing agricultural policies are affecting environmental health. The […]

The voter turnout in 2020 was a stunning 67%, according to one source. Another had it at 94%. A third fixed 2020 voter turnout at 63%. All three are correct — because they do the math differently. They’re comparing actual voters with the number of eligible voters, registered voters and Americans of voting age, respectively. […]
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A group of cattle ranchers is pushing hard for reforms on country-of-origin-labeling, known as COOL, and the U.S. Secretary of […]

ABERDEEN, Wash. — The further I drove from Seattle toward the coast, the denser the grove of evergreen trees on a drizzly July morning. Off of the Olympia Highway,  a green welcome-to-Aberdeen sign bore the song lyrics “Come as you are” — an ode to grunge band Nirvana, which formed in the old lumber town […]
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