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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Without GMO labels, we all eat in the dark [VIDEO]
Two new campaigns suggest that eaters are ready for a more transparent food system.
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Water for crops, but farmworkers go thirsty
The water in California's Central Valley is so contaminated with nitrates from fertilizer runoff that the U.N. has placed it on a global list of places with "social problems linked to a lack of access to clean water" alongside Bangladesh, Uruguay, and Namibia.
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USDA offers help to beginning farmers. Will it be enough?
A new round of grants for beginning farmers worth $18 million promotes sustainable changes. But it's a just drop in the bucket compared to what we need.
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Berry toxic: Decoding the organic strawberry debacle
Food advocates and farmers want to close a loophole that allows farms to sell organic berries that have spent as much as half their lives in conventional nurseries.
