Why Are We Letting Corporate Profiteers Write America’s Farm and Food Policy?

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America’s farmers are at the mercy of everything from bugs to corporate profiteers to monopolistic middlemen. A farmer was asked what he’d do if he won a million-dollar … Read more

Change That Matters

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Profiteering industries have been trying to demonize the Rights of Nature movement and change that matters. As you would expect, corporate leaders have responded to the idea of … Read more

The Jerry Duncan Show Interviews an Alaskan Farmer

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Wherein our intrepid talk radio show host interviews Alaskan farmer Clint Stone, from Wasilla, Alaska. ANNOUNCER Live from under a rock in your backyard, it’s The Jerry Duncan … Read more

Who Cares Who the Secretary of Agriculture Is?

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The job of secretary of agriculture in the past has first and foremost been to keep moneyed interests in charge. Years ago, Robert Kennedy noted that making economic, … Read more

This Thanksgiving, Let’s Celebrate AgriCULTURE, Not AgriBUSINESS

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This is one of the most important populist struggles occurring in our society. It’s literally a fight for control of our dinner. In December 1972, I was part … Read more

Corporations Are Playing with Our Food — and with Our Heads

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Food fabricators of industrial agriculture are using Recombinetics to mess with our food and the very DNA of Mother Nature. From kitchen tables worldwide, you can hear a … Read more

‘Real News’ Stories Encourage Progressives

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Fake news is prevalent these days, but some real news stories are encouraging to progressives. A decade ago, some barons of the media establishment designated themselves America’s official … Read more

Wall Street Plowboys Buying Up Farms

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Of course, these modern day slavers don’t soil their own soft hands on their farms. John Steinbeck’s novel “Grapes of Wrath.” Woody Guthrie’s ballad “Deportee.” Edward R. Murrow’s … Read more

It’s Time to Put Food Policy Back on the Table

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The economic devastation in farm country continues unabated as agribusiness profiteers, Wall Street speculators, urban sprawlers and corrupted political elites continue to set food policy. During the farm crisis … Read more

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