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, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Let’s All Calm Down about the Dietary Guidelines
What does it mean that the Feds are taking “sustainability” into account in this year’s process?
Food Equity
Immigration Reform Requires Food System Reform
It has been estimated by Farmworker Justice that there are 4.5 million farm workers and family members in the United States, and that up to 75 percent of them are undocumented.
Food Policy & Governance, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
The Positive Change Created by New Supermarkets in Food Deserts
Changing perceptions and attitudes is part of the equation of long-term behavior change.
Food Animal Production
Antibiotic Resistance: How Industrial Agriculture Lies With Statistics
The CDC released a landmark report estimating that antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause at least 2 million infections and kill at least 23,000 people in the US every year.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Gutless decisions can’t halt Meatless Monday’s momentum
The USDA retracted its promotion of Meatless Monday in a sustainability newsletter to employees after facing pressure from the National Cattleman’s Beef Association.
Food Equity
Immigration Reform, Agriculture and Public Health
For the first time in almost 30 years, serious reform of U.S. immigration policies seems possible.
Food Systems & Climate Change
Cooking Climate-Friendly without a World-Class Chef
What if we as a society committed to leveling the playing field?
Food Systems & Climate Change
Can’t Stand the Heat? Get Into the Kitchen
This blogpost appeared in the Center for Investigative Reporting on December 17, 2012.
Food Systems & Climate Change, Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Handle with Care: Food, Climate, and Fragile States
This blogpost appeared on Foodday.o
