I was a corn detasseler as a teenager. But increasingly weird weather patterns are making the timing of this crucial task harder and harder to predict.

Amid a labor resurgence in the U.S., farmworkers struggle to recoup the momentum their movement once had.

The junior senator from New Jersey continues to believe in the power of interpersonal relationships in effecting policy.

It’s real meat, biologically speaking, not a plant-based imitation. But it didn’t come from a living, breathing animal. The words used to brand it could make all the difference—just ask GMO producers.

Can meat grown in a laboratory help save the planet? And if it can, what’s standing in our way?

The Biden administration must not only curb emissions. It also has to move swiftly to issue its planned OSHA regulation limiting the heat exposure that kills more workers every year.

Panic over California’s pork reform exposes everything wrong with the meat industry.

Small tweaks to the meat industry can’t save Americans from a simple truth: We need to eat less meat.

The pursuit of questionable economic projects by tribal nations offers the chance to think about what the end goals of sovereignty should, or even can, look like.

Why big polluters and a bipartisan group of senators want to create a national carbon market

On junk food, cash crops, Oatly, and how to fix what’s broken in our food system

The American Farm Bureau Federation has recast itself as a climate warrior, pushing for private offset markets relying on the fraught science of soil sequestration.

Biden’s pick for agriculture secretary brings stale solutions to growing crises like climate change and labor inequality.

Imagine a version of the U.S. that is not a global destabilizer and coercive magnet for those fleeing that destabilization. Imagine a world of movement for pleasure.

How to fix a country that was already cracking up before Trump came along

The chronic neglect of the nation’s housing agency continues with Joe Biden’s decision to tap an inexperienced Ohio lawmaker as its leader.

American agriculture is in crisis.

The president-elect will have to overcome major obstacles, including some of his own advisers and campaign proposals.

“The Secret Life of Groceries” exposes the dark secrets of America’s food supply.

A message to the American left