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Chicken salads recalled by NY company because of Listeria
Sally Sherman Foods of Mount Vernon, NY, Thursday recalled 3,004 pounds of various chicken products that may contain Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food...
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Additional victims identified in Dole salad listeria outbreak
Three more people have been confirmed as victims of the seven-month Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to packaged salads from a Dole Food Co. plant in Ohio. The case count in the U.S. is now 18...
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5 Beers From Across the Nation That Are Redefining Local
There are 4,000 small and independent craft breweries operating across the country and they all sell their beer locally. But a select group of breweries are taking the term “local beer” to a new level...
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Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Global Food Supply,...
The birds and the The first global assessment of the threats to creatures that pollinate the world’s plants was released by a group affiliated with the United Nations on Friday in Kuala Lumpur,...
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Inside The Anonymous World Of Caffeine
Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. I came home from a trip the other day with a small plastic bag filled with four ounces of brown powder that,...
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Childhood obesity strategy delayed further and sugar tax unlikely
The already delayed childhood obesity strategy will not be published until the summer, the government has said, and it is unlikely to include a sugar tax. The news from the Department of Health will...
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A Tribute to Sam Beall of Blackberry Farm
We were so saddened to hear the news that Sam Beall, the proprietor of Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee, passed away last night in a skiing accident, leaving behind his wife and five children. Few...
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Eat Less Meat, We're Told. But Americans' Habits Are Slow To Change
These days, it can be hard to ignore all the messages to eat less meat and more vegetables. Last year, the World Health Organization used its megaphone to publicize the link between cancer and...
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Keep food industry influence out of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines
Earlier this year, the Obama administration released the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which are widely promoted to the public and help guide nutrition education programs and menu...
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What You Need to Know About the Corporate Shift to Cage-Free Eggs
Last week, TargetDenny’sTaco John’s vowed to start using cage-free eggs. The week before it was ConAgraMondelez InternationalNorwegian Cruise Lines. Spurred by consumer demand and pressure from animal...
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The Woman Fighting to Make Sustainability Part of the American Diet
The dust is beginning to settle on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). And while the final guidelines turned out to be very similar to those from years past, they came close to changing in...
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Why women and youth are the key to feeding the world
see more). In this installment, Danielle Niereenberg, president of Food Tank, answers the question: “In 2016, what could be the biggest global food security success story?” In 2016, the biggest global...
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Kenyans Reacquire an Old Taste: Eating Healthier
Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work. In the 1950s and ’60s, governments in Africa and Asia started subsidizing the production of staple crops like rice and corn because it was...
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Sixteen School Lunch Programs Making a Difference
Over 31 million children in the United States consume most of their daily caloric intake at school. For many children, it may be the only food they eat regularly each day. But improving the quality of...
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Taste It, Don't Waste It! Winter Citrus
Winter is citrus season. And what perfect timing it is. Just when the cold and grey sets in and cold and flu bugs are at their partying best, mighty, bright, sunny citrus comes to the rescue. And with...
View ArticleResilience in Our Food System? It Might be Closer Than You Think
To Big Ag, the way to deal with climate change is more GMOs, bigger farms bringing food from farther and farther away and irrigation, irrigation, irrigation. We like to think a little closer to home...
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Just months after Big Pork said it couldn’t be done, Tyson is raising up to a...
Just a few months after pork groups ran a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal chastising Subway for its call for an antibiotic-free meat supply, the largest meat company in the US is launching an...
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Electric vehicles could be as cheap as gas-guzzlers soon
With gas prices at less than $2 a gallon, it may be hard to imagine trading in the old combustion engine for an electric vehicle, but according to new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the age...
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Rosa Parks' "Featherlite" Peanut Butter Pancakes
This morning, the Library of Congress announced that they had digitized Rosa Parks' personal collection of papers, letters, and photographs. The memorabilia, which had been protected for over a decade...
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Why Hillary Clinton's deep ties to Monsanto are giving US voters serious...
Campaign group says the US presidential hopeful must give back the $335,000 she received from Monsanto's GMO lobby group As former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton emerges victorious in the Nevada...
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