Food – Page 29 – People's World

Food deficits, deadlier than budget deficits

June 21, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Living on a farm makes me think long and deep about food deficits here at home and around the world, deficits far more menacing than budget deficits.

Union power: LA grocery workers march

June 16, 2011 By Luis Rivas

Hundreds of labor, faith and community activists are demanding a fair labor contract for union grocery workers at three supermarkets in the Los Angeles area.

Arrested for feeding the homeless

June 15, 2011 By Lisa Bergmann

As police officers here arrested four people for distributing food to the homeless in an Orlando park, June 8, a crowd chanted, "Food is a right, not a privilege!"

E. coli outbreak poisons Europe

June 6, 2011 By Blake Skylar

There are now 1,733 people in Germany affected by a dangerous e. coli outbreak, affecting both the economy and workers across Europe.

Anti-union Whole Foods, others sell GMF “health food”

June 1, 2011 By Blake Skylar

GM foods risk both human health and that of the environment, and there is no law in the U.S. that requires genetically modified organisms to be labeled as such.