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The Real Problem With Wood Pulp in Cheese
When it comes to the food industry, it's not always easy being cheesy. That's the takeaway from last month's Bloomberg story detailing the use of cellulose (aka wood pulp) in shredded cheese products...
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Farmers don’t try new things because it’s too risky. This could change that
If you peruse news sites like Grist regularly, you’ve read about some amazing new gizmo that promises to make farming sustainable forever more. And, a few years later, you may have remembered that...
View ArticleLoki Fish Company Recalls Smoked Pink Salmon Because of Possible Health Risk
Dylan Knutson 206-200-3631 View Product Photos Loki Fish Company of Seattle, WA is voluntarily recalling two lots of Wild Smoked Pink Salmon Portions, due to a positive test result for Listeria...
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All the News That's Fit to Eat: Tainted Salmon, Salt Labels, and Chocolate's...
Another full week of food policy news has passed you by. But don’t worry, we’ll get you caught up. Slice The Price Of Fruits And Veggies, Save 200,000 Lives? (NPR’s the Salt) Computer models created by...
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Local Honey Offers a Taste of San Francisco's Microclimates
What does San Francisco taste like? The Mission District’s light, floral, almost citrusy sweetness comes from the many blooms that flourish in the city’s balmy banana belt, while the Presidio’s rich...
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'Right to farm' amendment advances in Nebraska legislature
A proposal for a “right to farm” constitutional amendment appears headed for debate in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature, says the Lincoln Journal-Star. The sponsor, state Sen. John Kuehn, a...
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“Global warming is now in overdrive”: We just hit a terrible climate milestone
We’ve just surpassed a historic climate threshold — and the world is still heating up. As of Thursday morning, for the first time in recorded history, average temperatures across the Northern...
View ArticleThis Week in Eco News
One of the many big reasons we fight for a more sustainable food future? Protecting marine ecosystems and our waterways. This week's Eco News highlights how BigAg can negatively affect our water...
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Second Study Affirms New Thinking About Peanut Allergies In Kids
Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. A second big study affirms new thinking: early exposure to peanuts — beginning in infancy — reduces the...
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Giant Eagle Now the Largest U.S. Supermarket Selling Ugly Fruits and Vegetables
Funny, Imperfect, Inglorious, Misfit, Ugly, Unloved. These are just a few of the affectionate names businesses are using for less-than-perfect fruits and vegetables they hope to rescue from the...
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Action On A National GMO Labeling Measure Heats Up On Capitol Hill
With a July 1 deadline looming, Congress was scrambling this week to quickly set a national standard for labeling food products that contain genetically modified ingredients. While most lawmakers...
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The businesses putting animal welfare first F1
26 January 2016 If you’re reading this, the chances are you care very much about where your food comes from. But did you know that more and more businesses care, too? We take a look at the companies...
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German beer purity in question after environment group finds weed-killer traces
Technology | Thu Feb 25, 2016 10:17am EST BERLIN | BERLIN A German environmental group said on Thursday it has found traces of the widely used weed-killer ingredient glyphosate in Germany's 14 most...
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What Instagrams Look Like in Food Deserts
Food deserts, or places where people have limited access to fresh food, are usually measured by the distance people have to travel to get to a large grocery store. What’s harder to measure is what the...
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How Almost A Year In Space Made Astronaut Scott Kelly More Of An...
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly touched down on Earth last night after nearly a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS) — 340 days, the longest time of any American. Kelly and Russian cosmonauts...
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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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America’s Next Top Polluter
Corporate agribusiness is emerging as one of the biggest threats to America’s waterways – contributing to dead zones from the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico and even threatening our drinking...
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BREAKING: Farmworkers, Consumers Declare National Boycott of Wendy’s!
Elena Stein Coalition of Immokalee Workers elena@allianceforfairfood.org | 239-986-0688 Farmworkers, Consumers Declare National Boycott of Wendy’s Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Campaign for Fair Food...
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We Spoke to Tom Colicchio About Petitioning Chefs for More GMO Transparency
Tom Colicchio is the founder and a board member of Food Policy Action, a group that says its mission is to “hold legislators accountable on votes that have an effect on food and farming.” Recently, the...
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