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Last week the Class of 2021 visited their Brentwood Kindergarten buddies for a very special afternoon filled with laughter, sunshine, and 50 farm animals.  With the coordination of Little [...]

By Cali and Riona Throughout Global Week we learned about the dangers of non-organic foods, which are made with pesticides and other chemicals bad for you to eat. Also, local foods are better for [...]

A problem that I was previously unaware of, and impacts the world is antibiotics in broiler chickens.  Broiler chickens are chickens that we consume. While researching animal welfare I was [...]

Global Week Essay: We all eat farm fresh produce, but do you ever think about its story? The farm workers who put long hours and tons of effort into producing our food are often unrecognized, in [...]

A class of third graders sit on the small carpet in front of the classroom. They listen attentively to the teacher, as she explains what words like “sustainability” and “local” mean. That night, [...]

By: Lauren Ashby   Our problem with farming is that at this moment we are in a drought and many people all over the world don’t have enough fresh, clean water. Instead those people are either [...]

      Grape picking is one of the most laborious agricultural jobs in the US and for all the hard work these people are doing, they are not even paid enough to support themselves much less a [...]

Environmental Impact of Pesticides – Scarlett The use of harmful pesticides and herbicides, while reaching their desirable effects, can also harm and contaminate plants that were not the [...]

The Welfare of Poultry: A Fight for Justice By: Dana Abbo, Priya Bhanot, Elizabeth Foster, and Ella Henn Animal welfare is the well-being of animals that are kept and intended to be used for [...]

One of the many global food issues in our world is that fruits and vegetables that are transported over long distance sea trips often rot before they reach their destination.  When the food [...]