Joshua Scheer McDonald’s used to once sold the illusion that capitalism could at least give working people something cheap, a meal for people who didn’t have much money or much…
Sascha Pare, Live Science. There are no easy answers here. Researchers have examined how weakening currents in the Atlantic Ocean could impact global agriculture — and the results are concerning.…
Caitlyn Clark Labor Notes This story originally appeared in Labor Notes Ouano Tante worked the afternoon shift at the Tyson beef plant in Joslin, Illinois, for five years. But when…
The ghost of Upton Sinclair. Rob Warzyniak, People’s World. When The Jungle was published in 1906, writer and journalist Upton Sinclair hoped his novel would advance socialism by exposing the…
Ibrahim Al-Marashi The Conversation The Red Sea often makes headlines as the launch site for attacks on oil tankers and infrastructure by the Houthi rebels, a political and religious group…
Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases…
Robert Jensen, Resilience. Caitlin Taylor believes that a sustainable food system needs “legible” infrastructure, which is why she proposes—not entirely in jest—building slaughterhouses next to farmers’ markets. Architects and engineers…
There is a script already written for the coming catastrophe—and the people in power are rehearsing it. Soon, as supply chains fracture and food disappears from entire regions, we’ll be…
UN officials warn that the U.S.–Iran conflict and the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz are triggering a fertilizer collapse that could ripple into food shortages, soaring prices, and mass…
Sharing meals anchors us both to our lives outside the prison walls and to each other in one of the most toxic environments anywhere. Ron Guier for Wagging Nonviolence My…
Joshua Scheer The global economy is already reeling from the cascading effects of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran—fuel shortages, disrupted supply chains, and a deepening energy crisis. But beneath the…
Michael Arria for Truthout The “Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026” that is coming up for a House vote this spring is yet another GOP-led assault on the…
