Agriculture and Forestry, Agriculture Problems
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) put together a list of 50 billionaires on the Forbes 400 List of Wealthiest Americans who have received federal farm subsidies. The list includes billionaire families like the Pritzker Family whose company Chicago Mill &...
Agriculture and Forestry, Agriculture Problems, Toxic Environmental Problems
For decades, industrial waste has been diverted through municipal sewage treatment plants and sold as farm fertilizer. Vast swaths of land have now been permanently poisoned with industrial toxins like PFAs and other forever chemicals that don’t break down...
Agriculture and Forestry, Agriculture Problems
Family Farms are Being Taken Over by Big Corporations The decline of the small American family farm in one chart “Peak farm, as it happens, happened almost 80 years ago in the United States. The number of farms in the country has fallen by some 4 million between...
