Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

What exactly is the cold supply chain? So, the cheeseburger couldn’t have existed without our refrigerated supply chain, and they didn’t; the earliest records are from the 1920s. The Biden administration is investing in developing a more resilient meat supply chain , for example, largely by decentralizing the industry.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 25, 2024

multinational giant that rebranded as Chiquita in 1990, sustained its banana plantations across Latin America through ruthless, bloody tactics, confronting consequences only rarely. food corporations have subsidiaries or parts of their supply chain associated with ongoing human rights abuses.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Photo: Zoe Schaeffer) Yet truly sustainable linen will be expensive, at least early on, when the supply chains are still getting up to speed. As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Throughout, carbon-footprint bar charts show the multiple emission sources for each food, conveying the impact of an entire supply chain at a glance. Some of these stories are familiar now, but Easter finds the details that make them come alive and unpacks the science with the panache of a storyteller.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Origins of exploitation in the food system As noted in my previous blog about the longstanding racial injustice in the agricultural system, the United States was born from the plantation system of the antebellum South, rooted in the oppression and exploitation of Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Origins of exploitation in the food system As noted in my previous blog about the longstanding racial injustice in the agricultural system, the United States was born from the plantation system of the antebellum South, rooted in the oppression and exploitation of Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

In past decades, the large-scale consolidation of the food supply chain has reduced processing, aggregation, and transportation to a handful of companies. As momentum builds throughout various regions, it has spawned wider discussions about incentivizing other parts of the supply chain for regenerative producers, says Stelk.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. The current state of our food and faming system was born from the plantation system in the antebellum South that displaced and stole land from Indigenous nations and exploited Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

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