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Proposed Law Would Cut Back on Food Waste From Farm to Fridge
It has been nearly four years since the Natural Resources Defense Council published its landmark study on food waste in the United States. The exhaustive look at all of the perfectly edible food that...
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Don’t Call Me a “Sanctimommy:” The Latest Salvo In the Mommy Food Wars
Over the weekend, Salon published a provocative piece, “Stop telling me I’m poisoning my kids”: Food crusaders, sancti-mommies and the rise of entitled eaters.” In it, writer Jenny Splitter explains...
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Big Food Discriminates Against the Poor by Pushing QR Codes to Label GMOs
It’s no surprise that according to yet another recent poll, Americans overwhelmingly believe they have the right to know if their food is genetically engineered, with roughly 90 percent regularly...
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Environmental justice scores a win in California carbon policy
The cap part of California’s cap-and-trade program gets a lot of love: It places a hard limit on emissions, which benefits everyone. The trade part, however, has its detractors — and with good reason....
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Antibiotic use in food fuels resistance to vital drugs
The use of antibiotics in agriculture is fuelling drug resistance and must be cut back or even banned where they are important for humans, a report commissioned by David Cameron has warned. The Review...
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Antibiotic use in food fuels humans' resistance to vital drugs
The use of antibiotics in agriculture is fuelling drug resistance and must be cut back or even banned where they are important for humans, a report commissioned by David Cameron has warned. The Review...
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Scientists assembled for Monsanto say herbicide not carcinogenic, disputing...
CHICAGO A panel of scientists is disputing a World Health Organization report published earlier this year that concluded glyphosate, the world's most widely used weed killer and main ingredient in...
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Proposal: Set International Targets for Farm Antibiotic Use
The international community needs to set hard targets for using antibiotics in agriculture and should act as soon as possible to reduce the drugs’ use, a project chartered by the British government...
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Fear at the tap: Uranium contaminates water in the West
In this Monday, Sept. 14, 2015 photo, 9-year-old Carlos Velasquez drinks well water from a hose at a trailer park near Fresno, Calif. Residents of the trailer park receive notices warning that their...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'Go part-time vegetarian to protect the planet'
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says people should go meat-free one or two days a week to protect the climate. Meat-eating was an environmental problem, with farming creating an...
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Paris talks: indigenous people and small farmers say rich are setting the agenda
In the climate talks “blue zone”, in the Parisian district of Le Bourget, are the governments, their advisers and lawyers, big business and the financiers. Facebook has a stall, along with UN agencies...
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This Writer Cut Out Processed Foods for a Year. Here’s What She Learned.
Say you’re making spaghetti and red sauce and you want to avoid eating processed foods. Which of these would you choose? 1. A jar of a branded sauce dubbed “Organic Traditional,” with an extensive “all...
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A Banner Year for Research: 5 Innovative Projects Aimed at Helping Growers
USDA scientists work 365 days to provide safe and sustainable food, water, and natural resources in the face of a changing climate and uncertain energy sources. To recognize the contribution that...
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House votes to ban microbeads in the U.S.
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of banning the use of synthetic micro-plastics in personal care products. The bill was introduced by New Jersey representative Frank Pallone...
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Growth Promoters for Farm Animals: What If They Just Don’t Work?
The practice of giving food animals small doses of antibiotics has been around since at least the 1940s. In the earliest days they were used, these so-called growth promoters conferred huge benefits,...
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Awareness to Action: Representative Pingree’s Food Recovery Act
This is a guest article written by Food Tank Advisory Board Member Jonathan Bloom. Bloom is the author of American Wasteland and creator of the blog “Wasted Food.” Find him on Twitter at @wastedfood....
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Veggies Under Glass: Greenhouses Could Bring Us Better Winter Produce
Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. Paul Lightfoot, CEO of BrightFarms, in his company's greenhouse in Lower Makefield Township, Penn. Dan...
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Global Biomimicry Design Challenge: Food Security
The Biomimicry Institute is partnering with the Ray C. Anderson Foundation and food and conservation experts to solicit nature-inspired solutions toward ending world hunger. From 2015-2017, our Global...
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Food Business Accelerator
FOOD-X partners with early-stage food entrepreneurs to bring out their best potential and take them and their products and services successfully to market in areas of food & beverage, health, and...
View ArticleThe Feast of the Seven Fishes: Food52 + Mario Batali
A collaboration from Mario Batali and Food52. This beautiful exclusive digital recipe collection includes 11 dishes inspired by the traditional holiday feast. By signing up, your email will be added to...
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