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Yesterday was a momentous day, thanks to the historic, histrionic passage of health care reform. Lack of access to adequate health care kills an estimated 20,000 to 45,000 Americans annually, so here’s hoping that the health care bill will stem that terrible tide.
But Monday was also World Water Day, a fact that pretty much fell [...]

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Are the teabaggers ready to stop throwing tomatoes and start growing tomatoes? Glenn Beck’s latest sponsor, The Survival Seed Bank, is banking on Tea Party paranoia to sell a product it calls the “Full Acre Crisis Garden.” As Stephen Colbert noted last Wednesday, “nothing moves product like the hot stink of fear.”

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Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, the filmmakers who fondly documented their brief stint as Iowa corn farmers in King Corn, explore agribiz’s downstream downside in Big River. In this thirty-minute sequel, Cheney and Ellis revisit their Iowa acre and trace its toxic trail all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Here at home, supporters of industrial agriculture are alarmed by the prospect of having to curb their carbon footprint. And commodity crop farmers are reportedly feeling betrayed by the USDA’s new-found support for small-scale, sustainable agriculture.

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It’s a good thing Michelle Obama’s arms are so fabulously fit, because she’s just signed on to do some serious heavy lifting. At Tuesday’s White House launch of the Let’s Move campaign, the First Lady declared her ambition to end childhood obesity within a generation:
I don’t want our kids to live diminished lives because we [...]

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