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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USDA, FDA get an F on livestock antibiotics
The government's own watchdog highlights the near complete lack of real, systematic response to Big Ag's dangerous drug habit.
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Food fighters: Don't give up on the farm bill
The upcoming farm bill won't be the watershed moment we've been waiting for. But it still provides an opportunity for food reformers to become sophisticated policy players.
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Food safety breakthrough: USDA declares 'Big Six' E. coli strains illegal
Until today, six strains of the pathogen -- known to cause almost 40,000 illnesses, 1,100 hospitalizations, and 30 deaths annually -- were legal in meat.
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Superweeds go mainstream
Yikes. Even the business press has begun to notice that pesticide-resistant "superweeds" are dangerous.
