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For Beginning Farmers in the West, Finding the Water to Grow Food is a...
Two years ago, in the middle of summer, the water was shut off on the 143-acre farm and ranch that Dustin Stein manages in Mancos, Colorado. As a farmer at the beginning of his career, Stein, who runs...
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Doctors In Flint, Mich., Push A Healthy Diet To Fight Lead Exposure
Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. A bright red tablecloth adds a pop of color to Ashara Manns' kitchen at her home in Flint, Mich. The...
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Paying for our sugar high with taxes
ON THURSDAY, we'll hear more details on Mayor Kenney's budget proposals, and we're betting that the aftermath of his address to Council will focus on his reach back into the recent past to enact a tax...
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USDA removes beef and pork from COOL requirements
Meat packers and retailers are free of the requirement to identify the origin of beef and pork sold in supermarkets, according to a notice scheduled to appear today in the Federal Register. Congress...
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Pop-Up Film Fests
Whether in your living room with friends, a brownbag lunch at your office, a city-wide bash at your local theater, or a college movie night – host your own screening party featuring the Top 10 Finalist...
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Bernie Sanders’ secret weapon on Super Tuesday
Bernie Sanders won four out of 13 Super Tuesday contests last night — his home state of Vermont, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Sanders knew the last three states, as well as Massachusetts (which...
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Consumer Group USRTK Calls on Jon Entine to Reveal Funding, Ties to...
News Release For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (415) 944-7350 Jon Entine, a leading chemical industry PR operative who has written dozens of...
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Slice The Price Of Fruits And Veggies, Save 200,000 Lives?
Lowering the price of fruits and vegetables by 30 percent can save nearly 200,000 lives over 15 years — roughly the population of Des Moines, Iowa. That's the message being touted by researchers this...
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Monsanto Is Suing California for Trying to Inform Its Residents That Roundup...
The biotech giant would prefer it if people didn’t know that glyphosate, the main ingredient in its bestselling weedkiller Roundup, is a probable carcinogen. Once again, Monsanto is trying to take away...
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International School Meals Day
“A hungry or emotional child cannot develop physically, mentally or emotionally. Healthy eating habits provide the optimum mental and physical health for children and, once established, last a...
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How One Woman Changed the Supermarket Produce Section Forever
It all started accidentally. Frieda Caplan, new mother and UCLA political science graduate, was looking for a job with flexible hours. Through her relatives she found an opening at Giumarra Brothers...
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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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8 Easy Ways to Cut Back on Food Waste (and Save on Groceries)
Like us on Facebook First, the bad news: If you’re like a typical American, you’re probably tossing more than 200 pounds of wasted food in the trash every year [PDF]. That’s not just bad for the planet...
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Justice Department Refers Exxon Investigation Request to FBI
The U.S. Justice Department has forwarded a request from two congressmen seeking a federal probe of ExxonMobil to the FBI's criminal division. U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier sought...
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Cutting Deforestation Out Of Palm Oil
On this page In recent years, the world’s biggest companies have woken up to the environmental costs associated with palm oil and the other commodities they buy. Nowhere are those costs more evident...
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Factory farming divestment: what you need to know
The fast food chain Subway is latest to join the backlash against antibiotic use in the farm sector. It has launched a new chicken sandwich in the US made with meat from animals raised without...
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Are Fertilizer Explosions Just Another Cost of Doing Business for Big Ag?
Three years ago, an explosion at a West, Texas fertilizer plant killed 15 people and injured another 260. In January, the Chemical Safety Board, the federal agency that investigates chemical disasters,...
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With Economy Stuck In The Mud, Farmers Sink Deeper Into Debt
At the Lee Valley consignment sale near Tekamah, Neb., dozens of used tractors, planters and other equipment were on the auction block for farmers trying to save a few extra dollars. It was a muddy...
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European Union
Farm machinery spraying glyphosate to oilseed rape. Photo: Chafer Machinery via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) More articles about Tall stories: BBC's anti-science support for badger culling Five ways to slash...
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