Stories
Find out how the CLF is engaged in positive food systems change.
Food Policy & Governance, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Transporting Corn Ethanol to Your Gas Tank: No Walk in the Park
What happens after the corn is processed into ethanol? How does it get from the plant to your gas tank, and what are the concerns along the way?
Food Equity
Q & A with Olivier De Schutter on the Right to Food
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter insisted that hunger—and famine—is not a crisis of productivity but a crisis of power.
Food Policy & Governance, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
The Genesis of Corn-Fed Cars
Today, 40 percent of the corn crop in the U.S. goes to ethanol production.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Jackson touts 50-year plan to ‘perennialize’ landscape
Wes Jackson's mission is to reinvent agriculture by replacing annual monoculture grains with perennial polycultures.
Food Animal Production
New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s Share of Antibiotics
Of the antibiotics sold in 2009 for both people and food animals almost 80% were reserved for livestock and poultry.
Seafood & the Food System
Maryland public hearing on proposed oyster policy draws a crowd
Questions about the plan to increase oyster sanctuaries from 9% to 25% of remaining oyster beds drew sharp criticism.
Food Animal Production
“Animal Factory” Book Tour Stops at JHSPH
Author David Kirby visisted CLF to discuss his latest book.
Food Animal Production
CLF provides House testimony on Maryland Bill 953 to ban arsenic from poultry feed
Roxarsone is transformed into inorganic arsenic, a carcinogen.
Food Animal Production
What is a family farm?
A Congressional staffer took issue with Steve Wing’s statement that many family farms are disappearing.
Food Animal Production
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals
Foer discusses the link between factory farms and the H1N1 outbreak.