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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High steaks: Meat eaters' climate impact
The Environmental Working Group released the Meat Eaters Guide to Climate Change + Health, and it contains surprises for climate-conscious eaters.
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Would you eat mutant meat?
The FDA does Big Meat a solid by denying broader use of irradiation, which kills disease but leads to discolored and disfigured food.
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Why it's so hard to reform the food system, explained in one chart
It's very hard to make change in the food system in an environment where wages are flat and couples (read: women) are working more hours.
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Going rogue: USDA may have just opened the GMO floodgates
Did the USDA just open the floodgates to unlimited, unregulated planting of new genetically engineered crops? It sure looks that way.
