RT @danwibg: US: Water for crops, but farmworkers go thirsty http://t.co/LFLeriSO via @grist #agriculture #food

Who’dve thought? Bosses put profit before ethics http://t.co/06LFHdJg ,traders are more reckless than psychopaths http://t.co/9fJpJjbp

Longshore Workers vs Agribusiness http://t.co/J8GA8Ut6

You can measure a government by the people they ban:US just kicked out the UK’s most effective environmentalist http://t.co/bjV96YNY

Great take-down of the World Bank’s latest World Development Report http://t.co/GCpp78rU No, gender isn’t just ’smart econoomics’.

Biopiracy! India accuses Monsanto for stealing aubergine/eggplant/brinjal genetic material – http://t.co/NRe3R24x

The $136bn bet on food speculation this year is 20x the total world aid budget for agriculture. http://t.co/F8WEbli6

Oop – tUSPIRG on junk food subsidies – taxpayers support 19 Twinkies and a quarter of an apple per US citizen – http://t.co/EVh5JPrL

(A shorter version of this piece appeared on Marketplace today)

Bigger isn’t always better. By 2030, half of Americans won’t just be overweight, but obese. By then, nearly a fifth of our healthcare dollars will be spent treating the diseases that come with being bigger. Our lifestyles, rich in fat, sugar and inactivity, are creating a debt that’ll become the planet’s most expensive public health issue.

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Pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will in the Nation Food Issue – http://t.co/sW1OJKz1