“Instead of working to prevent future abuses, the factory farms want to silence them… What they really want is for the whistle to be blown on the whistle-blower.”

if Americans shifted just one percent of the $30 trillion in liquid assets to locally owned companies, more than $300 billion would be injected into the Main Street economy without costing the government a penny.

The 1977 work, “The Unsettling of America,” still resonates today.

A mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees en masse for several years appears to have expanded drastically in the last year, wiping out 40- 50 percent of hives.

Slow Food has become a force to be reckoned with, probably the only international organization that integrates concerns about the environment, tradition, labor, health, animal welfare… along with real cooking, taste and pleasure.

If passed, the Liberal government says the Local Food Act would, through education, encourage the growth and development of markets for foods grown and made in Ontario. It would also provide funding for collaborative local food projects.

FarmedHere, a new 90,000-square-foot indoor farm, just opened in the suburbs of Chicago and is now the largest facility of its kind in the world.

Kathleen Merrigan, who made promoting farmers markets and local food a top priority, has resigned as deputy agriculture secretary.

These small businesses that are emerging in communities across the country are not only part of the local food movement. They are part of the Life After Wall Street movement.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the launch of “Farmers for Chicago,” a program that will turn five acres of vacant City-owned land into urban farms over the next three years