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Sustainable Food Trust
Young people today are inheriting a catalogue of issues associated with a broken food system. Josh Viertel, former Slow Food USA President, told Slow Food’s International Congress in 2008, “There is...
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GMO labeling bill divides, torments Democrats
The Senate Agriculture Committee's markup of a controversial bill to preempt state GMO labeling laws Tuesday put the divide among Democrats on full display. Chairman Pat Roberts' legislation cleared...
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Ugly fruit is taking Canada by storm. Here's why you should care.
The much-maligned misshapen apple is ready for its day in the sun. There is just too much hunger, poverty and food waste to continue to push ugly fruit into the trash can for no reason other than...
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USDA's Vilsack Calls For Mandatory GMO Labeling
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Agriculture.com)— The U.S. should make genetically modified organism (GMO) labeling on food products mandatory for food companies, according USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack....
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France Pushes for EU Ban on Glyphosate Herbicides
Following a meeting with EU Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis on Friday, French Minister of Ecology Ségolène Royal has announced that France will vote against the EU re-licensing of glyphosate,...
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Why the EPA’s recent pesticide battle could be a big deal
A battle between the U.S. government and a chemical giant revealed a fundamental flaw in the way we control pesticides — one that could be allowing thousands of unsafe chemicals to go undetected. In a...
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Peanut Mush In Infancy Cuts Allergy Risk. New Study Adds To Evidence
Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. Parenting can be an angst-ridden journey. And one bump along the road is that horrible feeling that...
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She Wanted to Do Her Research. He Wanted to Talk ‘Feelings.’
Honolulu — OVER the past two decades as a professor, I’ve grown thousands of plants, studying how their biology shifts in response to our changing environment. Soon I’ll begin to design and build my...
View ArticleProgressive Gourment Inc. Issues Alert on Sausage Egg Cheese Muffin Because...
Progressive Gourment Inc.1-800-224-7630 View Product Photos Progressive Gourmet Inc. of Wilmington, MA, is recalling its 6 ounce packages of Sausage, Egg, and Cheddar Cheese on English Muffin breakfast...
View ArticleVoluntary Recall of Non Organic Gogo Squeez Applesauce Pouches
1-844-275-5841 Matthew Della Croce Email 646-428-0616 New York, NY Materne North America Corp. (MNA) is voluntarily recalling specific packages of GoGo squeeZ® applesauce pouches due to potential...
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Why South Africans will pay 'sin tax' for fizzy drinks
South Africa has joined the battle against sugar, becoming the first African country to plan a tax on drinks loaded with the sweet stuff. That could hurt many here, for whom a supermarket trip is not...
View ArticleMaking It Right in Flint
Imagine for a moment that, starting tomorrow, water flowed from your kitchen spigot with a sickening brownish tinge and a vile odor that made you doubt it was fit for drinking. You complained to local...
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Antibiotic-free chicken chasing cage-free eggs
When it comes to poultry industry trends, this much is clear: The cage-free egg came before the antibiotic-free chicken. But similar to the egg industry's shift toward cage-free housing systems for...
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Review: Documenting the Madness of Philadelphia’s ‘King Georges’
Do you like food? Do you like movies? Do you like movies about food? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you might enjoy Eater at the Movies, a column by Joshua David Stein which examines...
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ON COMMON GROUND
When the scientists who created the Oldways Common Ground Consensus Statement crafted their point #10, they had multiple reasons for doing so. This tenth point states: “We support the cultivation of...
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The 11 Best Lines From GQ's Deep Dive Into the Future of Food
What will the future of the American food industry really look like? GQ Magazine attempted to find out the answer by discussing the subject with a panel of esteemed professionals. Writer Brett Martin...
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Science has found a brilliant new use for your kitchen scraps
| Wed Mar. 2, 2016 6:00 AM EST When John Wick and his wife, Peggy Rathmann, bought their 540-acre ranch in 1998, it was in bad shape. Located in California's Marin County, a windswept region northwest...
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Bad News From Monsanto, Bad News for DuPont, Dow Chemical
Monsanto (MON) cut its 2016 earnings guidance today, a fact that has made its shares the worst performer in the S&P 500. Its guidance cut could also have an impact on other chemical companies,...
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Why Trump?
By George Lakoff Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next...
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Greenpoint’s Culinary Ghosts
When I moved to Brooklyn in 1999, I’d never heard of Greenpoint — a working-class Polish community out past Williamsburg with questionable subway access — before the apartment broker sold me on it. My...
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