Wall Street Sodbusters [Reposted with acknowledgement and thanks from Otherwords.org Please see original post page for copyright information.] Big-money speculators are buying up farms, charging tenants to farm it, and boxing young, real farmers out of the market. By Jim Hightower… Read More ›
How’s this for a grand generalization? The United States is not great at providing health care and really good at waging war. And by “good” I do not mean effectively. We wage war a lot because we can afford to and… Read More ›
If we need anymore proof that a corporation is really not a person, we can turn to an item in the news which so far the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has not covered beyond printing a brief Bloomberg report in its Business section. The… Read More ›
(CAFO hogs by USGS [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) If you operate a wealthy “mega farm” in Wisconsin or anywhere else in the nation, some lawmakers in Congress are working hard to make sure you keep receiving unlimited federal subsidies; in fact,… Read More ›
Much shocked outrage was voiced in Wisconsin after a recent undercover video taken at a dairy factory farm by the animal rights group Mercy for Animals was made public. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation issued a statement saying the animal cruelty shown… Read More ›
