In 1910, 40 percent of the United States’s population grew the food that fed the rest of the population. Today the percentage of the population that feeds the rest of the country has been reduced to two. It’s true that American farms have been disappearing as quickly as developers can snatch up… Click here to … [Read more...]

American Meat Trailer Jon and Robin McConaughy’s farm originated from one simple desire. They wanted to know where their food came from — who grew it, whether their fruits and vegetables were treated with pesticides, the meat they were ingesting dosed with hormones. Ditto for New York filmmaker Graham Meriwether, … [Read more...]

“Many of us are aware of the issues surrounding where our food comes from — how safe and wholesome it is, the devastating effects the industrialized food system has on the environment, the brutal treatment of livestock, and the demise of family farming. But few among us who have read “Fast Food Nation” or “Omnivore’s … [Read more...]