Commentary

We Took Our Paywall Down One Year Ago. Here’s What Happened.

By The Civil Eats Editors

September 2, 2025

We increased traffic to our site, launched our daily Food Policy Tracker, and have found new audiences.

Op-ed: Through Acts of Solidarity, We Can Support Immigrants in the Food Chain and Beyond

By Alba Velasquez

July 22, 2025

Immigrant farmers, food workers, and vendors are a critical part of our food system. Here’s how to help them here in LA and nationwide (Photo credit: LA Food Policy Council).

Op-ed: The Big Beautiful Bill Won’t Make America Healthy Again

By Aviva Musicus and Anupama Joshi

July 15, 2025

Photo credit: Rrodrickbeiler / stock.adobe.com

Op-ed: There Is No Future Where the Lakota and the Buffalo Don’t Exist Together

By Elsie Dubray

June 25, 2025

Op-ed: Save California’s Crab Culture From Drowning in Regulations

By Samantha Ross

June 4, 2025

Stanley Ross (at left, coiling rope) and friends pull up crab traps just beyond the Golden Gate Bridge on an early November morning in 2018. (Photo credit: Samantha Ross)

Op-ed: Why Most No-Till Agriculture Is Not Actually Regenerative

By Nate Powell-Palm

May 8, 2025

Farmers hands harvesting organic dandelion greens cutting base of stems

Op-ed: Trump’s Disastrous First 100 Days for Food, Farming, and Fairness

By Kate Anderson

April 29, 2025

Clouds above the US Capitol in Washington DC

Op-ed: What It Will Take to Ban Ultra-Processed Food in School Meals

By Dan Giusti

April 23, 2025

several trays of school lunches that incldues a salad, milk carton, and other items on a cafeteria table

Op-ed: How Trump’s Tariffs Could Impact Your Local Restaurant

By Clare Reichenbach

April 2, 2025

New York City, USA. People dining at a Mexican restaurant in the West Village. (Photo credit: zxvisual/Getty Images)

Op-ed: Food and Moral Courage Are Needed to End Childhood Hunger

By Billy Shore

March 20, 2025

A girl with a ponytail sits at a school cafeteria tale with a lunch tray in front of her, including a carton of milk, a red apple, and other food. She is smiling and wearing a pink t-shirt

Op-ed: The Food System Cannot Become Another Fossil-Fuel Industry Escape Hatch

By Anna Lappé

March 11, 2025

potato chip floating over aluminium foil packaging isolated on white background

Op-ed: Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?

By Jason Mark

February 18, 2025

two black chickens and a brown chicken peck at produce in a backyard area

Op-ed: Black Producers Have Farmed Sustainably in Kansas for Generations. Let’s Not Erase Our Progress.

By JohnElla Holmes

January 29, 2025

a black and white photo of a Black family on a homestead in Kansas

Op-ed: Food Security Is Urgently Needed in Black Rural Appalachia

By Mya Price

November 19, 2024

Two Black women stand behind an outdoor tale with fresh sweet potatoes and fruits in baskets

The Path Forward for Food and Ag

By The Civil Eats Editors

November 13, 2024

Op-ed: ‘Blue Foods’ May Not Save the World

By Becca Franks and Laurie Sellars

October 31, 2024

a fishing pen where a worker is using a large net for farmed salmon

Op-ed: My Family Struggled With Hunger. If Congress Won’t Fully Fund WIC, Millions More Will, Too

By Gwen Moore

February 28, 2024

a parent feeds a small baby because they receive WIC funding and Congress has passed a funding bill in the past

Op-ed: Meals Made With Fresh, Whole Foods Could Transform Our Health Care System

By James McGovern

February 13, 2024

a volunteer delivers a healthy medically tailored meal to a senior citizen

Op-ed: The Clear Lake Hitch, and the Tribes That Depend on Them, Face Continuing Threats

By Jeanine Pfeiffer and Ron Montez Sr.

January 30, 2024

A rescued hitch (Photo credit: Luis Santana)

Op-ed: This Farm Bill Could Rein in Big Agriculture’s Lobbying Power

By Will Harris

January 17, 2024

Ranchers supervise grazing grass-fed cattle. (Photo courtesy of White Oak Pastures)

Op-ed: Solutions to Address Food Insecurity Facing Black Seniors

By Mya Price

December 20, 2023

a Black senior cooks food in his kitchen to fight food insecurity.

Op-ed: Walmart’s Outsized Catch

By Aaron Van Neste

November 21, 2023

Photo of a shark swimming through a school of fish, with a gritty overlay including walmart's yellow and blue colors. (Photo credit: Scott Carr, Getty Images, illustration by Civil Eats)

Op-ed: Farmers Want Climate Resilience, but GOP Lawmakers Want to Redirect Billions in Conservation Funds

By Wendy Johnson

October 12, 2023

Farmer Hannah Bernhardt. Photo credit: Wendy Johnson

Op-ed: 4 Solutions to Make Urban Ag Policies More Equitable

By Anthony Nicome

September 21, 2023

Ronald White (left) and Willington Rolle work in the Roots in the City urban garden in Miami's Overtown neighborhood on October 21, 2009 in Miami, Florida. The 2-acre lot, which was once a blighted area, features collard greens, citrus trees, papayas, and an assortment of vegetables. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Op-ed: Big Ag Touts Its Climate Strengths, While Awash in Fossil Fuels

By Peter Lehner

September 14, 2023