Articles by Tom Laskawy
A 17-year veteran of both traditional and online media, Tom Laskawy is a founder and executive director of the Food & Environment Reporting Network and a contributing writer at Grist covering food and agricultural policy. Tom's long and winding road to food politics writing passed through New York, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, Florence, Italy, and Philadelphia (which has a vibrant progressive food politics and sustainable agriculture scene, thank you very much). In addition to Grist, his writing has appeared online in The American Prospect, Slate, The New York Times, and The New Republic. He is on record as believing that wrecking the planet is a bad idea. Follow him on Twitter.
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Home on the range: Can grass-based ranching be scaled up sustainably?
As new science reiterates the importance of cutting down on red meat, can a proposed grass-fed cattle ranch in Florida bring the eat-better-quality-meat-less-often approach to the mainstream?
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More evidence that grocery stores alone won’t solve the obesity crisis
It tuns out proximity to grocery stores might not influence people's actual eating habits.
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Undead laws: ‘Ag-gag bills’ are back to keep factory farm abuse a secret
A look inside Iowa's just-passed bill, which would prohibit employees from taking jobs in concentrated animal feeding operations solely to document animal abuse.
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Walmart is no savior: More small businesses = healthier people
Big box stores are often billed as saviors for food-insecure neighborhoods, but new research suggests otherwise.
