Peeled

Tracking the Trump administration's actions on food and agriculture

Small farms are scrambling to survive in the face of grant cancellations and funding freezes, hunger and nutrition policies are front and center, and…

Mar 10 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

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November 2024

Investigating the pesticide industry + election coverage

An update on my reporting while Peeled is paused.

Nov 4, 2024 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

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August 2022

Farmland loss, toxic seeds, and all kinds of food news

An update for readers, while Peeled is paused.

Aug 4, 2022 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

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November 2021

Eating with gratitude

A case for thoughtful food choices.

Nov 25, 2021 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

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At COP26, missed opportunities to cut food’s climate impacts

Could we AIM for immediate action, instead?

Nov 11, 2021 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

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We need bugs to produce food, but our food system is killing them

In praise of wood ants and giraffe-necked weevils.

Nov 4, 2021 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

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October 2021

Does a box filled with half-and-half count as food aid?

A scathing report finds the Farmers to Families Food Box program sent millions of taxpayer dollars to unqualified distributors.

Oct 28, 2021 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

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A new generation of food justice leaders

Despite pandemic-related disruptions, Teens for Food Justice is growing its urban farm education footprint.

Oct 14, 2021 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

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Why scientists are monitoring soybeans from space

NASA's latest satellite launch is tied to food security and climate resilience.

Oct 7, 2021 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

September 2021

Does it matter if a few powerful companies control meat?

"It may be our last opportunity to fix this."

Sep 30, 2021 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

A showdown over the future of food

Today's United Nations Food Systems Summit is not without controversy.

Sep 23, 2021 • 

Lisa Elaine Held

The food system is driving ocean plastic pollution

We're going to need more than trash-collecting volunteers to clean it up.

Sep 16, 2021 • 

Lisa Elaine Held