This spring’s floods devastated farming and rural communities in the middle of the U.S. that were already struggling with economic and social decline, writes Nathan Beacom. But ”blue” America may find it difficult to sympathize.
Agriculture
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A 50-year farm bill can break our wasteful patterns of production and consumption
The latest five-year farm bill continues a pattern of subsidizing corporations while squeezing every last drop of use out of farm families and cropland.
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Faith advocates see victories in new farm bill
The farm bill that passed both houses of Congress by wide margins doesn’t have money in it to protect endangered species, but it did preserve one that had been on the threatened list: bipartisanship.
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Scientists, farmers, and theologians agree: Agriculture is a ‘noble vocation’
Ministering in rural areas should be rooted in building relationships that understand people’s connection to their land.
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Why should Catholics care about Trump’s tariff war? American farmers.
All those who eat are called to care about the plight of those whose work produced the eating.
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Fasting with Farmworkers: Agriculture’s #MeToo moment
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a Florida-based farmworker group, led a “Freedom Fast” to draw attention to the epidemic of sexual assault and harassment of farmworker women and to the C.I.W.’s ongoing boycott of the fast-food chain Wendy’s.
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The Editors: What we owe America’s farmworkers
U.S. agriculture is facing a silent crisis.