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UK households wasting 34,000 tonnes of beef each year
UK householders throw away 34,000 tonnes of beef every year - the equivalent of 300m beef burgers, according to new research. The national Love Food Hate Waste campaign has partnered with farmer and...
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Failure to Lunch
For 11 years, June Jo Lee, an ethnographer, has been traveling the country, talking to Americans about how they eat. She has often been in offices, observing white-collar workers. In one interview, a...
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In-N-Out works with suppliers to move from beef raised with human antibiotics
In-N-Out Burger is working with suppliers to accelerate a move away from the use of human antibiotics in the production of beef used in the chain’s burgers, the company said Thursday. The statement...
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Like Knowing If GMOs Are In Your Food? Congress Is Trying To Make That Harder
With just over four months to go before Vermont becomes the first state to require the labeling of food products containing genetically modified organisms, the fate of that bill -- and other...
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Dinner and a Movie? 9 Fine Films on Food from 2015
For me, thoughts of Oscars during most of the year are more likely to conjure up images of Oscar the Grouch (who, come to think of it, probably gets plenty of perfectly fine food tossed into his...
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Report: More Pollinators Species In Jeopardy, Threatening World Food Supply
A major global assessment of pollinators is raising concerns about the future of the planet's food supply. A U.N.-sponsored report drawing on about 3,000 scientific papers concludes that about 40...
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‘The Revenant’ Author Michael Punke Has a Day Job
There are five literary adaptations in the Oscar race for best picture this year, including movies based on Emma Donoghue’s “Room” and Colm Tóibín’s “Brooklyn.” But among the hopeful novelists who will...
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U.S. Senate
Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin established the current record for the greatest number of consecutive roll call votes cast—10,252. 2:00 p.m.: Convene and begin a period of morning business....
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Real Food Media Contest
Seeking captivating short films about food, farming, and sustainability. Spark action. Inspire change. Featured Guest Post by Zulakha Iqbal, Small Planet Institute intern It’s just two wheels and some...
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Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow
In August, five young men showed up at Soul Fire Farm, a sustainable farm near Albany, New York, where I work as educator and food justice coordinator. It was the first day of a new restorative justice...
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What Happens When You Teach Math in the Garden?
Maaike Baker is a recent graduate of Gordon College on Massachusetts' North Shore, where she studied journalism. She is just dipping her toes in food journalism, focusing mainly on urban farm...
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Real Food Films
We're open for submissions for our third year! Share your 4-minutes-or-less films on food, farming and sustainability by March 1, 2016 to be eligible to win prizes & distribution opportunities.
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Spotlight
Open Road Films and Participant Media, with support from First Look Media, are sponsoring a fellowship of up to $100,000 to be awarded by The Boston Globe for one or more individuals or teams of...
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Moving Forward Together
Cafeterias in schools and early care locations, colleges and universities, hospitals and other institutional settings serve tens of millions of Americans every day, placing the farm to cafeteria...
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Here's what 5 fruits and vegetables looked like before and after humans...
Fruits and vegetables are delicious. We can't live without them. But they haven't always looked the way they do today. That's because long before modern genetic modification techniques were invented,...
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Calorie Counts Really Do Fight Obesity
Until recently, the sophisticated view about calorie labels in restaurants was one of despair: A series of studies suggested that the practice, required by Obamacare and modeled on what has been done...
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Drugs flooding into Puget Sound
Puget Sound salmon are on drugs — Prozac, Advil, Benadryl, Lipitor, even cocaine. Those drugs and dozens of others are showing up in the tissues of juvenile chinook, researchers have found, thanks to...
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California city sets organic precedent
Congress Blog feed By Natalie Paffrath, RN and Zen Honeycutt On Feb. 23, 2016 Irvine, California city council set a precedent for cities across the country by passing a new policy to switch to organic...
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Exxon Mobil’s insane argument against action on climate change
Exxon Mobil has devised a bizarre new argument to wriggle away from its shareholders’ demands: Humanity can’t fix the problem we created, so we shouldn’t even try. Yep — as it turns out, Exxon Mobil’s...
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