Viewpoints
Viewpoints features essays and interviews by the Center for a Livable Future’s staff, faculty, fellows and other affiliates. These opinions are opinions—not representations of the Center’s priorities, activities or stances.
Food Policy & Governance, Food Animal Production
Food Systems Advocacy in Rural America: Don’t Say Environment
There are words Mark Winne won't use when working in rural regions: “justice” and “equity” are two of them.
Food Policy & Governance, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
A Red State Rejects the Right to Farm
Oklahoma elected a right-wing presidential candidate who has promised to do away with environmental regulations, while simultaneously voting to uphold current regulations on farming and ranching.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Can Kids Go Vegan?
Children are not little adults. They have special nutrition needs for growth and development.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Eating Less Meat May Help Your Gut
Our gut microbiome plays a complicated and important role in many aspects of our health.
Food Animal Production, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Edible Insects: Ethics, Efficiency, and the Vegan Dilemma
How did I, a vegan of over five years, find myself eating mealworms and crickets?
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Risk Assessment and Processed Meats
The IARC’s “carcinogen” classification doesn’t really tell us how dangerous processed meats are.
Food Animal Production
The USDA Is Gonna Do What?
The outbreak of several Asian-origin Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (HPAI) viruses is still wreaking havoc for industrial egg and turkey integrators.
Food Animal Production
Poultry Contracting and Tournament Pricing
The current system is built on the contract production relationship between the producer (farmer) and the large integrator (company).