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Maryland to Become First State to Ban Bee-Killing Pesticides for Consumer Use
In an effort to curb its plummeting honeybee population, Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to pass strict restrictions on neonicotinoids for consumer use. Neonicotinoids are a...
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These vitamin-fortified bananas might get you thinking differently about GMOs
In the winter of 2014, students at Iowa State University received emails asking them to volunteer for an experiment. Researchers were looking for women who would eat bananas that had been genetically...
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Poland approves large-scale logging in Europe's last primeval forest
Poland has approved large-scale logging in Europe’s last primeval woodland in a bid to combat a beetle infestation despite protests from scientists, ecologists and the European Union. The action in the...
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How Restaurants and Fisheries Are Saving Edible Seafood From the Trash
As demand for seafood rises, chefs have their seafood supplier on speed dial. And while species like tuna, cod, and halibut are popular, these days, the daily catch on the blackboard might be something...
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2016 Chefs Collaborative Summit
Chefs Collaborative’s 7th Annual Summit, Good Food is Smart Business, will take place in New York City from April 10-12th, 2016 in partnership with New York University. Together, in the heart of...
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Surprising facts about pulses you might not know
Pulses are good for you, beneficial to farmers' livelihoods and have a positive impact on the environment. It is clear that even though dried beans, lentils and peas have been around for centuries,...
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Women used their work on the land to press for suffrage
March is Women’s History Month. There is a great deal to celebrate about women’s history…including women’s work on the land. However, we have so much more work do on that front, including getting more...
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If Olive Garden gives millions of meals to the needy, a waitress asks, why am...
Since 2003, the American “family style” restaurant chain Olive Garden has donated more than 28 million meals to local food banks across the US as part of its Fight Against Hunger campaign and what it...
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School food loophole must be closed, council leaders urge
A loophole exempting thousands of England's schools from healthy eating standards must be closed to combat child obesity, say council leaders. New standards for school food became mandatory in council...
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Video Library
The Change Food Video Library consists of the best short-length videos covering both problems and solutions to food and farming today. These professionally filmed talks come from different conferences,...
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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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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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At This Supermarket, The Produce Section Grows Its Own Produce
At the end of the produce aisle in the Metro supermarket in Berlin, an indoor farming company is testing the ultimate in local food: Greens and herbs are growing inside the store itself. The greens...
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New genetically-engineered potato gets approval for Canada
Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency gave the green light to a new genetically modified potato on Monday. Innate potatoes are engineered to reduce bruising and black spots and to stop...
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GMO food labels are coming to more US grocery shelves
Consumers around the country will soon know just by looking at the packaging of popular brands such as Cocoa Puffs cereal or Yoplait yogurt whether or not they contain genetically modified ingredients....
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All the News That's Fit to Eat: Kellogg's Jumps on the GMO Labeling Train,...
We’ve read this week’s food news, so you don’t have to. Multiple Food Companies Shift Their Stance on GMO Labeling: ConAgra to Disclose GMO Labels on Labels Throughout U.S. (Reuters) Kellogg’s, Mars to...
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Forced Labor and Worker Rights in Seafood Supply Chains
Food Chain$. The film, which was screened in Baltimore, exposes the plight of Immokalee tomato pickers, organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), and their goal of raising wages by a penny...
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Don't Make These Couscous Common Mistakes (Unlike Everyone Else)
Oh, couscous. Is there anything you can’t do? Couscous is a dried and cracked pasta made from semolina, like tiny pasta, meaning it cooks at lightning speed. It has a nutty, sweet flavor that pairs...
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GMO labeling: 5 questions with Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack
Immediately after U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack concluded his remarks at the Good Food Festival in Chicago Thursday, he was approached by a couple of admirers — and one ardent supporter of...
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'Food Chains' Documentary Sheds Light on Farmworkers' Reality
Molly Hannon is a freelance journalist based in Virginia. She has written for Al Jazeera America, The New York Times, The Guardian, Modern Farmer, The Daily Beast, Paris Review Daily, among others. She...
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