A recent report documents how India’s shrimp is farmed and processed by a highly exploited workforce, rife with horrific abuses—to then be sold to many of the largest U.S. grocery retailers, often with a sustainability promise.

Grey Moran reports ⬇️
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So proud of these two incredible Civil Eats journalists Lisa Elaine Held + Grey Moran for their much deserved North American Agricultural Journalists Awards for outstanding reporting NAAJAgJournos. 🎉🎊🙌 civileats.com/about/awards/

Koch Industries is making a multi-billion-dollar play to purchase a massive fertilizer production facility; some farmers and lawmakers are raising concerns about monopolization and high prices in an effort to halt the sale.

Nina Elkadi reports ⬇️ buff.ly/4aJmeyc

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture missed a USDA grant deadline to allow food banks to buy from local farmers. Now, the state is looking for ways to make up the funds. buff.ly/4ajD077

Our team here at Civil Eats has recently received awards for its reporting on the U.S. food system. Here’s a list of our latest wins! 🎉🧵⬇️

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Big Ag consolidation marches on: An Iowa Fertilizer Plant Purchase Spurs Antitrust Concerns | Civil Eats civileats.com/2024/04/08/an-…

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture missed a USDA grant deadline to allow food banks to buy from local farmers. Now, the state is looking for ways to make up the funds. buff.ly/4ajD077

“The real measure of how productive a landscape is not how much grain you can raise or what your yields are ... It’s how many people does it support? From that standpoint, Iowa’s becoming a desert.” My latest for Civil Eats

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Authors and chefs Kim O'Donnel and Bryant Terry will be sitting down with Civil Eats’ Senior Staff Reporter & Contributing Editor Lisa Elaine Held this Friday to talk about all things home cooking.

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The Iowa Senate passed one of the bills I reported on in this story yesterday and sent it to the House: civileats.com/2024/03/27/ins…

My latest Field Report on recent coverage of a study on carbon emissions from urban farming. “When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared.”
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In Roundup trial U.S. Judge Vince Chhabria said, “Monsanto does not particularly care whether its product is in fact giving people cancer, undermining anyone who raises legitimate concern.' #CivilEats weighs in. civileats.com/2024/03/27/ins…

On @civileats today: My latest reporting on a pesticide industry strategy to get state laws passed that could make it harder for individuals to sue based on claims their illnesses were caused by exposure.
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If you read one book about power in the food system this year, make it this one. I was so lucky to get to speak with Austin Frerick about it.

For Civil Eats, I covered how Spirit of the Sun is empowering Indigenous youth with traditional ecological knowledge to help address food insecurity and connection to culture.

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As Bayer lays groundwork to fend off Roundup litigation, its use of a playbook for building influence in farm state legislatures could benefit pesticide companies nationwide.

Lisa Elaine Held reports in our latest investigative series, Chemical Capture. ⬇️ buff.ly/3vjGRC1

In his new book, “Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry,” Austin Frerick takes on the most powerful families in the food system. buff.ly/3PC370W

It’s pretty interesting. In their first union contract, years before EPA banned it civileats.com/2022/07/06/ddt…