Blogs
Opinion/blog: Let's create a new award at Cannes for not advertising to children
By Alex Bugosky
alexbogusky's posterous 2010-06-24
Opinion: Free-range livestock face predators, insect pests and more parasites than confined animals dosed with antibiotics
By James E. McWilliams
The Atlantic 2010-05-10
Opinion: Administration's schizophrenic agricultural policy on display with installation of Islam Siddiqui as agricultural negotiator during recess and despite objections of 90,000
By Barry Estabrook
The Atlantic 2010-04-01
Editorials
Opinion: As manicured lawns become less politically correct, local governing groups begin rethinking rules on front yards and aesthetics of vegetables that might grow there
The editors
Chicago Tribune 2010-08-30
Opinion: Industrial agriculture has reduced cost of food but at steep cost to public health, as salmonella outbreak shows; lawmakers must resist Big Ag to pass food safety bill
The editors
Los Angeles Times 2010-09-01
Opinion: Volatility in grain prices caused by drought, flood plus population growth and emerging grain diseases - if this is pattern, or glimpse of future, it's worrying
The editors
The New York Times 2010-08-27
"Potash, for all intents and purposes, is food."
Essays
Analysis: Evolution of potash, phosphate, nitrogen to hunted, strategic commodities illustrates growing links between globalization, demographics, agriculture, food security
By Javier Blas and Leslie Hook
Financial Times (London) (may require registration) 2010-08-27
Opinion: Brazil's agriculture system, underpinned by research, capital-intensive large farms, openness to trade, new techniques is worthy of study in face of slow-motion food crisis
The Economist 2010-08-26
Opinion: If fish can be bred commercially and marine life can be saved through scientific technique, it will help stave off food-scarcity crisis larger than any we have known
By Josh Ozersky
Time magazine 2010-09-01
Letters to the Editor
Opinion: Helping out
With 28 percent increase in donations of fruits and vegetables to food banks because of temporary tax break for farmers, ranchers and other small businesses, it's clear that Michigan representative's provision in pension bill should be made permanent.
By Vicki Escarra, President and CEO, America's Second Harvest
Detroit Free Press 2007-11-21
Opinion: Farming reaction
"Contortions of logic and distortions of fact," writes a senator, who says oil prices and other factors add to grocery costs. And, an activist says sugar policy most needs reform, and forecasts even higher prices. All in response to The Wall Street Journal's "No farmer left behind" editorial.
By Kent Conrad; By Tom Schatz
The Wall Street Journal 2007-11-17
Op-Eds
Opinion: Industrial meat, egg factories excel at manufacturing cheap food, but evidence shows model is economically viable only because it passes on health costs to public
By Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times 2010-09-02
In rebuttal to NYT opinion piece, experts say locavores care for community, biodiversity, local economy, fresh foods, flavor, joy of eating, well-treated workers, fewer wide-reaching food-borne illnesses, public policy, diet-related disease - and food mil
By Tom Philpott
Grist 2010-08-20
Opinion: World split between Too Muchs, Not Enoughs - billowing victims of cheap, brilliantly tasty fat- and sugar-laden provocations, and monks overseen by nutritional priests
By Lionel Tiger
The Wall Street Journal. (may require subscription) 2010-08-21