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A Japanese cattle dealer checks beef meat before an auction at the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Meat Market on July 26th, 2006.

Environment

Beef, Climate Change, and the Future of International Trade Agreements

Across the globe, beef consumption is seeing rapid growth, fed by cheap imports and served by an industrialized agricultural global trade model that's been linked to a host of environmental impacts, climate change chief among them.

Sean Mowbray

Economics

Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership Make Workers’ Lives Better?

Or will its historic labor protections be ignored and unenforced?

Dwyer Gunn

Environment

The Stealth Trade Agreement That Could Super-Size Industrial Agriculture

The “finish line is in sight” for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would likely send a generation of forward-thinking agrarian reform straight down the drain.

James McWilliams