Food is our most intimate and powerful connection to each other, to our cultures, and to the earth, and to transform our food system is… Read More »Platform for Real Food

The Hill has reported that Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is expected to unveil a new rule that will make it easier for schools to comply with… Read More »Trump’s USDA Moves To Screw Kids Out Of Healthy School Lunch Choices

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Friday said President Trump may be open to creating a way for some undocumented immigrant workers to stay in… Read More »Ag Secretary Says Trump Open to Allowing Immigrant Farm Workers To Stay In U.S.

In his first stop outside of the Beltway, newly confirmed Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue answered questions on topics ranging from the North American Free… Read More »New Secretary of Agriculture Perdue Talks NAFTA, Immigration and Death Tax

Racism is built into the DNA of the United States’ food system. It began with the genocidal theft of land from First Nations people, and… Read More »4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey is on the short list for the No. 2 spot at USDA, as the administration faces pressure to mollify Midwestern… Read More »Iowa’s Northey Eyed for USDA Deputy Secretary

A Mexican man who lived in the basement of a Denver church seeking sanctuary from deportation for nine months until July 2015, when he was told he… Read More »Mexican Man Who Spent 9 Months in Denver Church Seeking Sanctuary Is Detained by ICE

President Trump appears to have backed off of his plans to force funding for his Mexican border wall into the current budget but he’s still… Read More »Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Going to Crush the Economy—and One Sector in Particular

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to ensure… Read More »Presidential Executive Order on Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America