TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam is a featured participant in the award-winning documentary film Common Ground. By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. Watch the trailer.
Max Lugavere, popular health and science journalist, filmmaker, and bestselling author, interviews longtime journalist and TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam about her work, including a recent investigative story about the secretive work orchestrated by a US company to control food policies in foreign countries in ways that favor chemical companies.
TNL Editor-in-chief Carey Gillam joined the Green Sense Radio show on WBBM Chicago to discuss the Make America Healthy Again report, how pesticide makers are seeking legislative immunity from litigation, and why regenerative agriculture is in the news.
TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam spoke with the More Perfect Union journalism outlet, offering insights into Bayer’s battle over Roundup litigation, Monsanto’s long history of deception, and the latest concerns over pesticide links to disease.
A long-awaited and highly controversial report issued on Tuesday by the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) commission provides a few “crumbs” for public and environmental health advocates, but big wins for powerful food and chemical industries seeking to skirt limits on their products and practices.
When a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1 million landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water quality problems, they knew that the findings would be important to share. But now, after the completed study pointed to agricultural pollution as a significant source of the key US farm state’s water quality problems, public officials have quietly stripped funding away from plans to promote the study findings.
KENNETT, MO. — Nestled in Missouri’s Bootheel is the small town of Kennett, the Dunklin County seat. With just over 10,000 residents, it’s a close-knit community where good-natured teasing is a common show of affection. Once a sprawling swampland, it has since been transformed into an expanse of flat, fertile fields where agriculture stands as the backbone of the region’s economy.
Syngenta is another step closer to potentially putting an end to thousands of lawsuits brought by people blaming the company’s paraquat weed killer for causing Parkinson’s disease.
Hundreds of Iowans gathered at Drake University in early August to confront a growing water quality crisis linked to the state’s powerful agricultural industry. Community leaders, scientists and farmers warned of dangerously high levels of nitrates, pesticides and livestock waste contaminating the state’s drinking water.
DES MOINES, Iowa – Several hundred Iowa residents gathered in the state capital this week, calling on public officials – and each other – to take swift action against dangerously polluted water supplies that are closely linked to the state’s powerful agricultural industry.