Gosia Wozniacka
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Portland, OR, United States
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‘I Was Coughing So Hard I Would Throw Up’
Workers at the tens of thousands of hog, chicken, and cow CAFOs in the US face severe respiratory health burdens. The corporate response is risk management. → Read More
What the Story of DDT, America’s Most Notorious Chemical, Can Teach Us Today
In her new book, ‘How to Sell a Poison,’ Elena Conis explains how DDT is linked to other ubiquitous toxic chemicals, as well as social inequality, race, and environmental pollution—and why the tobacco industry funded a secret campaign to bring it back. → Read More
Buddhist chaplains on the rise in US, offering broad appeal
Wedged into a recliner in the corner of her assisted living apartment in Portland, Skylar Freimann, who has a terminal heart condition and pulmonary illness, anxiously eyed her newly arrived hospital bed on a recent day and worried over how she would maintain independence as she further loses mobility. → Read More
Glass, Plastic, Or PLA? Dairies Struggle to Replace Single-Use Bottles
As plastic pollution soars, companies are trying to get their milk to consumers with the smallest environmental footprint possible. → Read More
How I Changed My Relationship to Grocery Shopping—and My Financial Future
Birch Community Services, a unique food redistribution program in Portland, Oregon, takes a radical approach to rescuing food, reducing food waste, and helping people manage their money. → Read More
Does Regenerative Agriculture Have a Race Problem?
BIPOC farmers and advocates say the latest trend in agriculture is built on an age-old pattern of cultural theft and appropriation. → Read More
Black Farmers Say They Were Dropped from the USDA's Food Box Program
Despite successfully getting food to the hungry, Black farmers in the South say their federal food box contracts were not renewed, leaving their futures uncertain. → Read More
The Pandemic Has Given Organics a Big Boost—but Most Profits Aren't Flowing to Small Producers
The nationwide shelter-in-place orders have led to a surge in purchases of certified USDA Organic foods, with much of the growth coming from industrial-scale farms. → Read More
Are Carbon Markets for Farmers Worth the Hype?
Private markets promise farmers monetization of a secondary crop: carbon stored in the soil. But questions loom about data ownership, consolidation, and increased pollution in communities of color. → Read More
Are Carbon Markets for Farmers Worth the Hype?
Private markets promise farmers monetization of a secondary crop: carbon stored in the soil. But questions loom about data ownership, consolidation, and increased pollution in communities of color. → Read More
A Battle over Mandatory Farmworker Testing Reveals a Broken System
Michigan just instituted the most far-reaching protections for farmworkers, but some farmers went to court to scrap them. → Read More
Should the Dietary Guidelines Help Fight Systemic Racism?
The new guidelines, published every five years, don’t reflect the nation’s growing diversity, or the particular health and dietary risks that communities of color face. → Read More
The Doctor-Botanist Couple Healing a Community in the Rural South
In Alabama’s Black Belt, where COVID rates are high and hospitals are understaffed, Dr. Marlo Paul and her plant biologist husband, Anthony, are making house calls and providing free herbal remedies from their own farm. → Read More
Millions of Dollars Heading to Farmers, but Small Farms Won’t See Much of it
Advocates say that young and disadvantaged farmers don't fit into the equation USDA has created to portion out the latest stimulus funds, and nor does anyone else selling directly to consumers. → Read More
As Hundreds of Farmworkers Test Positive for COVID-19, Many Remain Unprotected
As produce farms head into their busy harvest season, farms and labor companies are working to protect farmworkers. But some experts say it's not enough. → Read More
Are Dairy Digesters the Renewable Energy Answer or a 'False Solution' to Climate Change?
Capturing the massive quantities of methane dairy farms emit could reduce overall carbon pollution. But critics say the effort is propping up Big Dairy. → Read More
Poor Conditions at Meatpacking Plants Have Long Put Workers at Risk. The Pandemic Makes it Much Worse.
Coronavirus outbreaks—and deaths—among workers exacerbate existing problems, leading to plant closures. → Read More
Critical Food and Farm Rules Have Been Rolled Back Amid Pandemic
Amid the coronavirus crisis, inspection suspensions, enforcement freezes, and rule rollbacks by the EPA, USDA, and the FDA could have dire impacts on the food system. → Read More
Farmworkers Are in the Coronavirus Crosshairs
Farmworkers work, live, and travel in crowded conditions, and are being allowed few if any safety measures against COVID-19—which puts them and the food system at risk. → Read More
Plant-Based Diets and Regenerative Ag Have Sparked a Pea and Lentil Renaissance
Health and environmental concerns are driving 'phenomenal' growth for these humble pulse crops, which offer soil as well as dietary benefits. → Read More