Let’s stop big corporations from playing hunger games with our food production. As summer fades into true autumn this month, World Food Day (October 16)...
Ecological justice
As tensions heat up in Iraq, one underlying cause of the conflict remains overlooked. In mid-June, a lightning-fast assault by Islamist extremists bannered...
Ending our reliance on fossil fuels might mean digging deeper to find alternative solutions to our global energy crisis. Sounding Board is one person’s take on...
According to Catholic Rural Life, what we eat is a moral issue. How do we use an informed conscience to make moral eating decisions? 1. By placing an emphasis...
The year 2009 was a particularly challenging one for independent farmers like Teri Rosendahl. With the global financial crisis in full swing, small family...
In the last half century, food eaters and food providers in the United States have prioritized food quantity, the “all-you-can-eat” model, over food quality...
Genetic modification has yielded major changes in the way we grow our food, but concerns are cropping up over whether a bigger harvest means a better—or...
I grew up in the arid West: the land of prairie, tumbleweed, and newly-constructed subdivisions. I remember, as a kid, noticing the paradox between public...
Some of us take for granted the most precious resource of all. Lack of water harms families not only in the Third World, but also here at home. It’s 9 a.m. in...
As the bee population declines, we can either listen to the buzz or feel the sting. For years scientists have been puzzling over a vast die-off of bees in the...
