Health Insurance Marketplace: Enroll for 2015 Healthcare Coverage
Get ready to join the millions already enrolled in Marketplace coverage. Sign up for email and text updates to get important Open Enrollment reminders -- including a note as soon as 2015 plans and...
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The Restaurant Industry Prepares for the Trump Era
When a group of restaurant owners from the Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC United) held their most recent virtual meeting, members shared their employees’ fear of a Trump administration....
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In America’s Heartland, Discussing Climate Change Without Saying ‘Climate...
Here in north-central Kansas, America’s breadbasket and conservative heartland, the economic realities of agriculture make climate change a critical business issue. At the same time, politics and...
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Court Rules Against Monsanto, Allows California To Put Cancer Warning On Roundup
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – California can require Monsanto to label its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat despite an insistence from the chemical giant that it poses no risk to people,...
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10 Investigative Reporting Outlets to Follow
We’ve just started a new series highlighting some of the best, in-depth investigative journalism that is uncovering real news, revealing wrongdoing and fomenting change. As a compendium, here are 10...
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What’s at Stake for Ag Policy under Trump’s USDA Pick
A single day before inauguration, President Donald Trump filled the last vacancy on his cabinet, naming former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue secretary of agriculture. The son of a Georgia farmer and a...
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Why Trump’s immigration actions worry Bay Area food businesses
As food industry businesses — from restaurants to farms to food production — struggle to find workers in the Bay Area, President Donald Trump’s actions on immigration policy could cut their workforce...
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Federal hiring freeze disrupts USDA’s food safety testing
As the federal government continues the transition that comes every time a new administration moves into the White House, a hiring freeze and an order from President Donald Trump that temporarily puts...
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Uh oh. Studies find little U.S. money to study ecological impacts of chemicals
U.S. government funding for studies of how synthetic chemicals affect the environment isn’t keeping pace with the rapidly expanding use of these substances, which include pharmaceuticals, pesticides,...
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This industry just found out what it's like to do business in Trump's America
American farms overflow with certain foods: Our almond, corn, soybean, cotton, and wheat farms, and hog, chicken, and beef feedlots all churn out more than we can eat, wear, or burn in our cars as...
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Microplastics found in supermarket fish, shellfish
Tiny pieces of plastic are making their way into fish and shellfish found at the supermarket, a new study has shown. The findings are part of a report prepared for the International Maritime...
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In America’s Heartland, Discussing Climate Change Without Saying ‘Climate...
Here in north-central Kansas, America’s breadbasket and conservative heartland, the economic realities of agriculture make climate change a critical business issue. At the same time, politics and...
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Supermarkets look to sustainability as the next organic
A tag that says simply "Best" hangs next to a price tag for Dr. McDougall's oatmeal on a shelf at Giant Food. A tag below Diamond sliced almonds reads "Good," while another below a can of Amy's Organic...
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Is chlorinated chicken about to hit our shelves after new US trade deal?
Those of us who want to eat safe, healthy food awoke to a nightmare on Tuesday, a chilling interview on Radio 4’s Today programme. Bob Young, chief economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation,...
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Sonny Perdue vows to make American agriculture great again
After keeping the rural voters who put him in office on edge until the last moment, President Trump nominated Sonny Perdue, a former Georgia governor now heading a global agribusiness trading company –...
View ArticleTrial Balloon for a Coup?
The theme of this morning’s news updates from Washington is additional clarity emerging, rather than meaningful changes in the field. But this clarity is enough to give us a sense of what we just saw...
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FDA warning: Iceland's Fisk Seafood still trying to get it right
Fisk Seafood in Iceland has not yet resolved all of its issues with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA inspected the seafood processing facility on Sept. 12 and 13, 2016, finding serious...
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Growing Agrihoods: The Next Frontier in Urban Revitalization
The way a city uses and reuses space has a powerful impact on its identity and economy. While some cities are experiencing a development boom and others a building slump, urban agrihoods could provide...
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Taking aim at Trump policies, Starbucks CEO vows to hire 10,000 refugees over...
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz added a coffee magnate's voice to the chorus of tech industry executives who spoke out over the weekend against President Trump's travel ban order, announcing plans for the...
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Immigration Orders and Odd Tenders
Facebook Twitter Email Print Share Money StuffMatt Levine is a Bloomberg View columnist. He was an editor of Dealbreaker, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at...
View ArticleOver 100 food and farm groups oppose Puzder for labor secretary
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today 105 food and agriculture organizations, representing more than 10 million people across the food system, sent a letter to Capitol Hill urging senators to oppose the...
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Starbucks Commits to Hiring 10,000 Refugees in Five Years
Starbucks’ founder and outgoing CEO Howard Schultz has been fairy vocal in expressing his concerns regarding the election of President Donald Trump. In his latest letter to employees at the end of a...
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A Sip Of History: The Hidden Wine Cellars Under The Brooklyn Bridge
A muted statue of the Virgin Mary received the revelers, a few hundred of New York City's fortunate elite, as they navigated the recesses of the dark, cool caverns underneath the Brooklyn Bridge on the...
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Late to the Game, Football Stadiums Aim for Better Food
As another Super Bowl nears, the Vikings, with a few other teams in the National Football League, are leading a charge to upgrade food in the tradition-bound world of football stadium concessions, one...
View ArticleMeet the New(ish) Chairmen of the Senate and House Agriculture Committees
There have been some seriously big changes happening in Washington, DC over the past few weeks. Not only is there a new president and new White House staff, but an entirely new crop of federal agency...
View ArticleStatement from Secretary Kelly on the President's Appointment of Thomas D....
For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryContact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Today, the president appointed Mr. Thomas D. Homan acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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Another alarm for scientists: Trump’s pick to guide NOAA transition
President Donald Trump is taking aim at one of the federal government’s main agencies for climate change research – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – and NOAA employees are girding...
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Fact check: White House claims 109 affected by travel ban
"Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning." - President Donald Trump, tweet, Jan, 30, 2017 "Remember we're talking about a universe of 109 people. There were 325,000 people...
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Hong Kong's food safety center reports monthly, yearly data
Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety (CFS), a unit of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has released the findings of its food safety report for December 2016 and surveillance information for...
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Refugees make your dinner. Literally.
Of all the outrage generated by President Donald Trump's ban on refugees entering the country, the most surprising critic might be the US meat industry. Refugees are a group just as desperate for work...
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A D.C. Urban Farm Takes On Urban Problems
Little more than grass used to grow on the two-acre plot behind a middle school in the District of Columbia where tomatoes, okra, and infrastructure for food entrepreneurs will begin cropping up this...
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Americans were making a lot of progress cutting back on sugary drinks. Now...
For years, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines urged Americans to drink less sugary beverages. And for years, many Americans listened. But after a decade of falling consumption, rates have stalled at well...
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Trump and Charles in climate row
Donald Trump is engaged in an extraordinary diplomatic row with the Prince of Wales over climate change that threatens to disrupt his state visit to the UK. The new president is reluctant to meet the...
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Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
by Robert G. Wallace Multiple outbreaks of deadly H5 bird flu are decimating poultry across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The epidemic, moving across Eurasia in wave after wave, follows an...
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Forget protest. Trump's actions warrant a general national strike
On the morning after Donald Trump’s so-called Muslim ban went into effect – preventing all Syrians from entering the US, halting refugee admissions for 120 days and banning the citizens of seven...
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Eleven Madison Park Is Closing This Summer for a Major Renovation
The fine dining temple from Daniel Humm and Will Guidara, Eleven Madison Park is about to undergo a facelift. The three Michelin-star restaurant will close this summer so the team can renovate both the...
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People Waste More Food When They Know The Scraps Will Be Composted
Conscientious people usually feel guilty about leaving food scraps on their plates, but if they know that those leftovers will be sent to compost, then they waste just as much as diners who don't care...
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Robots Are the Baristas at SoMa’s New Cafe X
Robots have been assimilating into restaurant work seamlessly, taking over the repetitive tasks that free up humans for more creative endeavors. Companies like Zume Pizzeria, DoorDash, and Momentum...
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How to Build an Autocracy
It’s 2021, and President Donald Trump will shortly be sworn in for his second term. The 45th president has visibly aged over the past four years. He rests heavily on his daughter Ivanka’s arm during...
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Will More People Go Hungry if We Lose the Affordable Care Act?
A few years ago, single mother Seswaness Eaglepipe was experiencing recurring migraines and nausea, severe enough to send her to the emergency room. At the time, she accompanied one of her daughters to...
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If you liked the Inquisition, you'll love the House Science Committee
President Donald Trump's early moves to fill the government with climate skeptics and fossil fuel interests have enraged environmentalists. His administration's decree that Environmental Protection...
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Colleges Discover the Rural Student
To college administrators, rural students, many of them the first in their families to attend college, have become the new underrepresented minority. In their aim to shape leaders and provide access to...
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Republicans move to sell off 3.3m acres of national land, sparking rallies
Now that Republicans have quietly drawn a path to give away much of Americans’ public land, US representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah has introduced what the Wilderness Society is calling “step two” in...
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Betsy Devos appears to have plagiarized quote
Washington (CNN)Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's Education Secretary nominee, appears to have lifted quotes in at least two instances in written answers submitted to the Senate committee tasked with...
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Anonymous Group Reveals Direct Phone Numbers For White House Staff
Once upon a time, if you had a problem with something the President was doing, you could call up the White House's public comments line and complain to a staffer about it. Whether or not that grievance...
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Harvard med students, doctors urge cancellation of Dana-Farber fundraiser at...
Hundreds of medical students and doctors from Harvard Medical School are urging Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to cancel a lavish fundraising event scheduled for Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in...
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Many Native Americans lack access to healthy food, but there’s a growing...
Andromeda Na’lniitr’e’sdvm Lopez grew up on canned meat, canned juice, white flour, and evaporated milk. It was common fare for her tribe, the Tolowa Dee-ni’. But at 21, Lopez had a diabetes scare...
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Sessions' Extreme Record
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Monsanto's Mind-Meld; Spin Machine in High Gear
Alternative facts, indeed. Less than two weeks into the presidency of Donald Trump it appears we are seeing the ushering in of a new era of twisted truths, fake news, and selective science. That should...
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Bannon explained his worldview well before it became official U.S. policy
In November 2015, Stephen K. Bannon — then the executive chairman of Breitbart News — was hosting a satellite radio show. His guest was Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), who opposed President Obama’s plan to...
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