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The Latest Data on Rural Poverty

The Latest Data on Rural Poverty The newest data on income levels in each of the nation’s 3,110 counties show the pervasiveness of rural poverty in America. Only one among the poorest 50 counties is a metropolitan county; most are … Continue reading

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Rural Communities Wither and Die as Big Ag Captures Community Built Infrastructure

The farm and ranch community needs a new safe, profitable, and monopoly free pathway to the consumer. As poverty and hunger worsen, why are cities still willing to build highways, bridges, schools, libraries, museums, and sports arenas for billionaires, but … Continue reading

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Food System Success or Failure? It’s time to decide

The pandemic exposed the frailties of our current corporate controlled food system. With the opportunity in the upcoming new farm bill, will we knowingly continue with the same failed system that serves concentrated power, or will we build a better … Continue reading

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Shedding Light on Fast Food’s Dark Side

February 1, 2018 All American Meal Even Less American Now It’s been nearly twenty years since Rolling Stone magazine serialized Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser’s story about how franchise food chains and their … Continue reading

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American Cattle Industry is on the Brink – How did it happen?

It took a sales job and help from USDA The year was 1996, the National Cattlemen’s Association had just become the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA). The new entity included the large meatpackers and some of the biggest pharmaceutical companies … Continue reading

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