If industrial pollution in your neighborhood killed hundreds of fish in your river, tripled your water bills, was linked to an increased risk for congenital disabilities, bladder cancer, and hyperthyroidism, and spewed fine particulate matter (PM_2.5)—an air pollutant that can deposit deep in your lungs—would you demand change?¹ This is precisely what communities nearb

If we viewed our food choices as power, would it change the food that fills our plates? If we made it our business to understand the policies that shape our food system, would we demand something different?

If the dust from a feedlot packed with 45,000 cows isn’t seeping through your windows, and the stench of manure from swine farms crowded with 5,000-plus hogs isn’t overwhelming you when you step outside, perhaps how our industrialized farming system produces animal-based foods feels unimportant.^{1 2 3} But if that dust and manure fuel a crisis of drug-resistant superbugs, does it

Editor’s note: The problems with concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are many and multifaceted, ranging from animal and worker welfare to antibiotic resistance and environmental damage. This is the first in a monthly series that will take a closer look at some of these specific issues, beginning with the impact CAFOs have on the people who live near them.

Dear Neighbors,

Happy spring! We hope you’re finding the time to step outside and relax in the flower-scented embrace of an April afternoon. And as we imagine each of us finding a spot in the sunshine to sit and read for a moment, we’d like to share a wish for this Earth Month.

It’s everywhere—in parks and playgrounds, in cereal and crackers, in 75 percent of rainwater samples taken from midwestern states.

Should the meat, milk, and eggs of the (near) future be created in a lab?

What do strokes, heart attacks, aneurysms, varicose veins, and erectile dysfunction have in common? They are all diseases of the vascular system, the vast network of veins, arteries, and capillaries that run through the body (it puts the vascular in cardiovascular).

“The only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

GMO. It's just three letters, but when used together, they make a loaded term.

Drop it into a conversation, and you're likely to spark a discussion defined by opposing viewpoints and conflicting information.

Hello, Fall!

Aren’t you a delicious sight! Your bright, crisp air; the way you paint the countryside in vivid color, making us want to ditch our responsibilities and go adventuring; the evening chill that has us dreaming of a crackling fire and a cup of tea… you make us feel so many things. We want to dust off a favorite book and crack it open the old-fashioned way.

“A greater danger to human health than regulators previously thought…”