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Ayurella Horn-Muller

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Trump’s EPA Terminates Grant That Would Have Drastically Reduced Food Waste

The US wastes over one-third of its food supply, which contributes considerably to global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Truthout

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Trump’s USDA Dismantled Decades of Federal Food Policy in Just 100 Days

Trump’s USDA Dismantled Decades of Federal Food Policy in Just 100 Days

The people who grow and sell America's food no longer trust the USDA.

03.05.2025 2

Truthout

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Trump Guts Farm-to-School Grants, Undermining “Make America Healthy Again” Plan

Trump Guts Farm-to-School Grants, Undermining “Make America Healthy Again” Plan

The US Department of Agriculture cancelled a program intended to provide public schools with locally produced fresh vegetables.

27.04.2025 8

Truthout

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Carcinogen Rising in Rice Supply Due to Climate Change

Higher temperatures and CO2 levels are increasing rice's uptake of inorganic arsenic from soil.

18.04.2025 2

Truthout

Ayurella Horn-Muller

USDA Is Letting Grantees Nix DEI and Climate Language From Clean Energy Projects

The agency is unfreezing gridlocked money for farmers, but there appeared to be some fine print.

06.04.2025 10

Truthout

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Cuts to Federal Food Aid Are Severing a Lifeline for Natural Disaster Survivors

USDA’s decision to cut $1 billion worth of food aid is causing layoffs and shortfalls, all as hunger continues to climb.

19.03.2025 8

Truthout

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Mango farms where? Climate change is scrambling where the world’s food is grown

"Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation, and emerging diseases are among the mélange of climate impacts . . ."

31.01.2025 7

Salon

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Report: Climate Crisis Is Causing 3 Quarters of the World’s Land to Dry Out

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. As Earth grows warmer, its ground is becoming drier and...

28.12.2024 4

Truthout

Ayurella Horn-Muller

The funky mold turning food waste into culinary delights

Making oncom is almost magical. It starts with a pile of soy pulp, which is wrapped in banana leaves and sprinkled with the spores of a fungus...

13.11.2024 3

Salon

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Helene and Milton upended a key part of the nation’s food supply

When Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida three weeks ago, Jason Madison was alone at his place, which doubled as a shrimp storefront in...

24.10.2024 10

Salon

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Sometimes Hurricane Evacuation Isn’t an Option

Joe Vargas strapped a beach bag cradling his two small dogs, Peppe and Mama, around his torso before pushing his front door open to meet the wall...

19.10.2024 4

Truthout

Ayurella Horn-Muller

The election could shape the future of America’s food system

Nathan Ryder raises livestock and grows vegetables on 10 acres of pasture in Golconda, Illinois, with his wife and three kids. They also live in a...

30.09.2024 3

Salon

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Can we eat our way out of the climate crisis?

Early into his new book The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos , ecologist Mark Easter poses a playful, but loaded, question: "How...

23.09.2024 2

Salon

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Can We Eat Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?

A field with a cover crop of wheat, recently replanted with field corn. Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune/ZUMA This story was originally published by ...

22.09.2024 9

Mother Jones

Ayurella Horn-Muller

How to sell an ‘ugly’ vegetable? Give it googly eyes

You may have seen them wielded by prank-loving grandmas in department stores, peeking out from robotic vacuum cleaners, or adorning statues on...

11.09.2024 2

Salon

Ayurella Horn-Muller