Agriculture

How the Coalition of Immokalee Workers beat Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Whole Foods.read more

The Senate should put the brakes on Tom Vilsack as secretary of agriculture. Wednesday’s confirmation hearing for Obama’s nominee was a love fest.read more

“You decide every day what you’re going to put in your body—and what you refuse to put in your body,” explains the food expert. “That’s politics at its most basic.”read more

Though we may count calories or carbs, we don’t really know where our food comes from. But when people die because of spinach—spinach!—ignorance can suddenly, horribly, turn deadly. How, exactly, do three counties in California cause grocery stores across the country to take spinach off the shelf?read more