Though undocumented immigrants make up just 5 percent of the labor pool, they make up 16 percent of food supply chain workers, from fruit pickers to slaughterhouse workers to ...

By Brent Cunningham Episode 3 of Buzzkill, our new podcast series on the pollinator crisis, traces the roots of the exploitative and environmentally disastrous practices of modern ...

JBS, the Brazilian-owned conglomerate that is the world’s largest producer of meat, needed workers at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, and was struggling to find them.

By Theodore Ross JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, had a problem at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, in late 2023: It was short on workers, with openings for about 60 people to do the ...

By Theodore Ross The second episode of Buzzkill, our new podcast on the pollinator crisis, is available now and unravels the mystery of the mass die-off of a researcher’s bees in Meade, Nebraska.

“For decades, most mainstream green advocacy groups and top environmental scientists have been largely aligned with Democratic policies and leaders. Now, however, many people who are advocating for ...

“At 3 a.m., I bolted awake, clutching a cold, wet towel to my abdomen: my ‘liver wrap,’ applied at bedtime per the instructions on my printed schedule. A faint signal like a just-rung bell — the ...

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