Open Season Is Seen in Gene Editing of Animals
SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — Other than the few small luxuries afforded them, like private access to a large patch of grass, there was nothing to mark the two hornless dairy calves born last spring at a...
View ArticleRural America at a Glance, 2015 Edition
You are here: Home / Publications / EIB: Economic Information Bulletin / Rural America at a Glance, 2015 Edition Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-145) 6 pp, November 2015 This report highlights...
View ArticleSoil 101: A Master Class with Bob Cannard
For more than 30 years, Bob Cannard has been the visionary behind 140 acres of highly diversified, natural process farmland at Green String Farms; as well as the Green String Farm Institute, an...
View Article10 things to know before you eat your next chicken dinner
For our December Reveal radio episode, we’re dedicating an hour to stories about food: We go on a salmonella road trip to take a closer look at the chicken we eat, and we uncover the hazards workers...
View ArticleFood Security
Climate change is likely to diminish continued progress on global food security through production disruptions that lead to local availability limitations and price increases, interrupted transport...
View Article7 Ways to Tame the Hangries (Right. Now.)
Do you ever get so unreasonably hungry that you become... well, unreasonable? You are not alone. Hanger has many faces: irritating, irritated, limp, delirious, morose, and straight-up angry. The one...
View ArticleSourcing Food Ethically Is A Huge Challenge For My Startup
Yeah, Purple Carrot’s meals are vegan—but the way we source our ingredients is a work in progress. Four weeks ago, my vegan food delivery company Purple Carrot relaunched. I’m discovering the ups and...
View ArticleWhy are fossil fuel companies sponsoring the Paris climate talks?
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. You might not expect fossil fuel companies to pay for a conference designed to...
View ArticleAmazon Launches Restaurant Delivery in Baltimore
Amazon Prime members in Baltimore are now able to order restaurant delivery using the retail giant's Prime Now service. Over 50 restaurants in 10 zip codes in and around downtown Baltimore have signed...
View ArticleDROUGHT: California dreaming: developing an ATM for groundwater
KERN COUNTY, Calif. -- Bumping along a wide, gravel road, Jon Parker deftly maneuvers his pickup truck while simultaneously pulling out a collection of laminated maps from his center console. Dotted...
View ArticleCommunity Picks Recipe Testing—Recipes with Brown Butter
We've partnered with Organic Valley to bring you our latest contest—Your Best Recipe with Brown Butter—and a really wonderful, buttery prize for the winner. It's that time again—time to...
View ArticleStop the Ultimate Monsanto Protection Act
Breaking: The Monsanto Protection Act is Back and WORSE than ever! Right now Monsanto and biotech lobbyists are scrambling in Washington DC to try to find enough U.S. Senators to pass a deceptive bill...
View ArticleMy 10 Favorite Books: Michael Pollan
For his bookshop installation, One Grand, the editor Aaron Hicklin asked people to name the 10 books they’d take with them if they were marooned on a desert island. The next in the series is Michael...
View ArticleChina's cloned cows: meat on the table or environmental disaster?
A biotech consortium in China has announced that it intends to open a facility near Beijing with the aim of cloning up to a million cows a year to meet the country’s growing demand for beef. The...
View ArticleWhat's the Federal Government Doing to Our Food?
As the year and legislative session comes to an end, Congress has just a few weeks left to deal with some huge unresolved issues. This month it will be an all-out sprint to avert a government shutdown,...
View Article“Stop telling me I’m poisoning my kids”: Food crusaders, sancti-mommies and...
“You are poisoning your children,” the woman told me calmly before walking back into the crowd of activists gathered for the Food Justice march this past October in Washington, DC. Activists from...
View ArticleWith China's GMO sector in limbo, local seed firm targets U.S.
BEIJING A Chinese biotech seed firm is aiming to launch the country's first genetically modified corn products overseas on the home turf of the world's top agricultural companies, as Beijing's...
View ArticleThree food companies with a climate footprint bigger than the Netherlands
They may not be household names but collectively global food companies Cargill, Tyson and Yara have a bigger climate footprint than the Netherlands, Vietnam or Columbia, according to a new analysis....
View ArticleHow Alabama is Farming its Way to an Oyster Revolution
In a good year, the Gulf of Mexico produces up to 500 million pounds of raw, shucked oysters that help feed the economies of Gulf states like Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. But the industry has...
View Article10 Things to Know Before You Eat Your Next Chicken Dinner
This story was written and originally published by Reveal, a new public radio show and podcast from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. Learn more at revealnews.org. This looks like a...
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