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Bridging Nutrition and Tradition: Abriendo Caminos
When preparing your meal, what’s the first thought that comes to mind? Do you have the right ingredients to create a meal that is both fulfilling and packed with enough nutrients to meet the daily...
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Iowa’s 60 Million Laying Hens Aren’t Being Monitored by Food-Safety Inspectors
In 2010, 550 million eggs were recalled after thousands of people were sickened with salmonella in an outbreak tied to farms in Iowa, the leading state for laying-hen production. Despite Iowa producing...
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ConAgra Going Nationwide With GMO Labeling
Updated March 22, 2016 6:02 p.m. ET ConAgra Foods Inc. is going nationwide with labels that will say a food product is made with genetically modified organisms, finding it to be the easiest way to...
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Omaha Law Firm Launches Investigation in Cases of Farmers with Non-Hodgkin...
Omaha, Nebraska-based law firm Domina Law Group has announced it will be investigating cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in farmers from Nebraska and across the country who have been exposed to the...
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Chipotle using games, brains and off-site cooks to turn corner
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. has a new game online, a new executive director of food safety on payroll, a new public relations firm in New York City and new ways of cooking its food away from its...
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Shuttered sprout grower issues Listeria-related recall
Henry’s Farm Inc. — shutdown March 3 after years of ongoing Listeria problems in its fresh sprouts and its facility in Virginia — issued a recall yesterday for soybean sprouts produced “on or after...
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Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry
Global warming is, in the end, not about the noisy political battles here on the planet’s surface. It actually happens in constant, silent interactions in the atmosphere, where the molecular structure...
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Has the NFU president's farm led by example when it comes to bad practice in...
“It’s simple,” a civil servant at the government’s environment department, Defra, once told me. “When we want to know what our position should be, we ask the NFU [National Farmers’ Union].” There are...
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Is Rural North Carolina the Next Flint? Groups Say People of Color There Bear...
All eyes have been on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, but it is by no means the only city where the poorest residents face environmental damage and lax government oversight. Further to the South,...
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The end of the Cold War is coming to your fridge
When President Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Cuba since the revolution earlier this week, he brought along a veritable army of representatives of US business...
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There Were Five-Hour Lines to Vote in Arizona Because the Supreme Court...
Aracely Calderon, a naturalized citizen from Guatemala, arrived just before the polls closed at 7 pm in downtown Phoenix to vote in Arizona’s primary last night. “When Calderon arrived, the line...
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Please Stop Writing Racist Restaurant Reviews
Any Asian-American kid who's brought home-cooked food to school for lunch will tell you: It's not uncommon to hear that Asian food is dirty, smelly, and unclean. I wasn't the only one teased for being...
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Rockefeller fund dumping fossil fuels, hits Exxon on climate issues
HOUSTON, March 23 The Rockefeller Family Fund said on Wednesday it will divest from fossil fuels as quickly as possible and "eliminate holdings" of Exxon Mobil, chiding the oil company for allegedly...
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Tesco under fire for 'farm' brands which sound British but are imported
Tesco is facing heavy criticism for its new “farms” range, which uses British-sounding farm names to sell fresh produce from abroad as well as the UK. The seven new brands have been named after farms...
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Ceci N'Est Pas Ice Cream (Actually It's Lard And Food Coloring)
So, maybe your Instagram pics of #delicious #foodporn never look nearly as scrumptious as the real thing. Don't despair — it's not you. It's just that your food is too real. Professional food stylists...
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USDA regulators clear two GM corn traits from Monsanto, Syngenta
CHICAGO The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will no longer regulate a genetically-modified corn developed by Monsanto Co to resist its dicamba herbicide, the agency said on Wednesday. The move by...
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It's practically impossible to define "GMOs"
Debates rage over what to do about genetically modified organisms, but we rarely stop to ask a more basic question: Do GMOs really exist? It’s an important question, because no one in this debate can...
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The True Cost of American Food
This conference will bring together up to 700 leaders and interested citizens to address one of the most critical barriers currently preventing sustainable food systems becoming mainstream – the...
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Senate Blocks Bill To Create Voluntary National Standards For Labeling GMOs
3:27 Download Embed Embed iframe src="http://www.npr.org/player/embed/470715871/470715872" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The Senate...
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The farm bill drove me insane
In fall 2011, in an act of what can be described only as hubris, I had the bright idea of teaching a course on the farm bill. For nearly 25 years, I had been writing and teaching about food politics...
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