Food

Let them eat corn

Our agricultural priorities should be on filling hungry bellies, not fuel tanks. The gloomy gus of economics, the Rev. Thomas Malthus, was the guy who put the...

An all-you-can-read buffet

On the feast of the Corpus Christi last year Pope John Paul II called for a special year dedicated to the Eucharist, and Christians looking to nourish their...

Spit that out!

Tainted foods from the agricultural-industrial complex are giving new meaning to your favorite casserole "surprise." No one would ever mistake me for...

No more CARE packages

Instead of dumping grain in poverty-stricken regions, we should be investing cash. Bags of wheat or rice, stamped "U.S.A." and pitched onto a...

Greener pastures

How family farmers are planting for a sustainable future Russ Kremer had a near-death experience in 1989. On his central Missouri farm, he was bitten by a hog...