The [F]law: Land Is a Bank Account

In her superb article in The [F]law, “Land is a bank account: A journey into the polluted heart(land) of American agriculture,” Liz Turner tries to work through the troubling implications of a boom in farmland investment, only to find American agriculture was rotten at the core all along. 

Related SJP Resources From The [F]law:

• Maggie Hagen, Take Their Children, Then Their Land.
• Jeremiah Scanlan, Secrets of the Heartland: The Battle To See Inside Iowa’s Factory Farms.
• Benjamin Rankin, Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How Corporate Predators and the USDA Revived Wolf Extermination in America.

From The Systemic Justice Journal:

• HLS Student, Of Humans, for Humans, and by Smithfield: How corporate law helps enable us to eat pigs comfortably.
• Elizabeth MeLampy, Fowl Play: Corporate Law and the Chicken Industry.
• Tala Doumani, From the Public Charter to Private Power: Corporations, Slavery, and the Cotton Industry in the 19th Century.