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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. It is obvious to most of us that food is a human right. But our discussions of food justice need to be grounded—literally—in what experts are calling a right to healthy soils. human rights conference on food justice in Doha, Qatar.

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Cream Co. Meats Is Reshaping the Meat Industry One Farm at a Time

Food Tank

Meats is working to create opportunities for small farms and ranches to support a more localized food system. “We’re We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By Many of Cream Co. An assessment by the U.N.

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On the Ground with the Farmers Producing Antibiotic-Free Meat

Modern Farmer

In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones. He cannot sell that pork to Niman Ranch, which has a strict “no-antibiotics ever” policy. “If Cattle are often fed a corn or soy diet instead of grass, which can lead to illness.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. And he serves as chair of the board of the Eva Clayton Rural Food Institute, founded in January 2023 to help deliver healthy food to communities in rural North Carolina.

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Soil Builds Prosperity From the Ground Up

Modern Farmer

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. Her parents were farmworkers, and despite spending their days producing food, they relied on food banks to eat.

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In Brazil, a Powerful Law Protects Biodiversity and Blocks Corporate Piracy

Civil Eats

Photo credit: Jon Hicks, Getty Images) But if you are in Brazil representing a company in search of new food, drugs, or cosmetics, the Jardim’s research center is of far greater significance than the meandering garden paths. Centers of Food Origin: Genetic Treasure Troves Leaf by leaf, flower by flower, Brazil is a genetic powerhouse.

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Local Activists in Animal Agriculture-Heavy Areas Fight Nitrate Pollution

Daily Yonder

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer , a a nonprofit covering equity and resiliency in the food system. She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture.