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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No need to eat like a caveman — just eat your damn veggies!
New research suggests that we’ve bred much of the nutrition out of out food. What’s a discerning grocery shopper to do?
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Gut punch: Monsanto could be destroying your microbiome
The EPA and its buddies in agribusiness just quietly upped your recommended daily allowance of Roundup. This could be seriously bad news for your belly.
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Undead farm bill: Everyone’s favorite legislative zombie shuffles on
Congress bakes up a ginormous gift to corporate ag, which may well collapse and die. But don’t start celebrating yet.
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Frankenfoods: Good for Big Business, bad for the rest of us
The smart people at Nature tell us that GMOs will save us, despite their shortcomings. But we've heard all this before.
