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: Cutting harmful emissions from coal-fired power plants requires technology, ambition, but industry unlikely to invest unless Congress provides strong incentive
The editors
The New York Times 2011-07-20
Opinion: GOP-led House group seems bent on destroying laws protecting water, soil, air, but Obama, Senate must stand firm against states' likely race to bottom to lure business
The editors
The New York Times 2011-07-15
Opinion: Immigrant purge will leave onions, peaches to rot in fields; states' attempts to engineer expulsion of 11m undocumented is lunacy and DOJ needs to work harder
The editors
The New York Times 2011-07-04
"Congress is fighting to keep pizza and French fries on the school menus when we have an obesity problem nationally."
Essays
Opinion: Occupy Wall Street has its points, but occupying the kitchen will bring, keep families together, and when food is sourced locally, will 'stick it to the Man,' too
By Kurt Michael Friese
The Huffington Post 2011-10-27
Opinion: Children's needs ignored as Senate protects potato farmers who complained over proposed anti-obesity rules limiting high-carb foods for school meals
By Valerie Strauss
The Washington Post 2011-10-20
Opinion: Proponents of urban homesteaders' backyard slaughter rights engage in exaggeration, omissions, other techniques similar to those used by industrial agriculture
By James E. McWilliams
The Atlantic 2011-10-12
Letters to the Editor
Opinion: Agricultural policies still dominated by farm-state legislators openly hostile to reform; until big-state and urban legislators decide to serve on panels, little change likely
By Michael Pollan
The Nation 2011-09-14
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: In D.C., fewer dinners means polite conversation that may lead to beginnings of camaraderie is lost, and with it mutual trust essential to governance by two parties
By Lea Berman
The Washington Post 2011-08-05
Opinion: As commodity prices show, it will be economic impact of climate change and resource limits that will motivate sweeping changes necessary to avert catastrophe
By Paul Gilding
CNN 2011-06-21
Opinion: As supplies of fruits, vegetables remain steady due to work of pollinators, we pay homage to resilience of honeybees and perseverance of their keepers
By Randal R. Rucker and Walter N. Thurman
The Wall Street Journal. (may require subscription) 2011-06-22