Between 2010 and 2020, more than two-thirds of U.S. rural communities experienced sustained population loss, driven by outmigration, declining birth rates, and corporate land and resource grabs that prioritize profit over community needs. This decline fuels a vicious cycle: as young people leave, rural areas lose workforce, businesses, services, and tax revenue, further eroding schools…
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Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, workers at the largest meatpacking plants faced dangerous working conditions. As of early September 2021, nearly 60,000 meatpacking workers had tested…
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Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), often referred to as factory farms, are impacting rural communities’, air, water, health, and wellbeing. The proliferation of factory farms has completely changed the…
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This blog post was co-authored with Willa Childress with the Pesticide Action Network North America, an organizational partner of the SiX Agriculture & Food Systems Program. ————- Nothing…
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SiX recently interviewed Amy Wong, Policy Director with Friends of Family Farmers (FoFF) about their work on the 2021 Oregon bill HB 2785 – Local Meat Inspection and Grant…
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