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Costco gets creative to meet shoppers’ huge appetite for organics
At Costco’s recent shareholder meeting, CEO Craig Jelinek touted the vast amounts of food the company sold last year, from 83 million rotisserie chickens to $6.1 billion worth of produce. As for...
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Italians want their kids to learn about wine in school—and it’s actually a...
Alongside sprouting beans and lentils, winemaking has been an occasional feature of science classes for Italian children for decades. At age seven, I remember making white and red varieties, and...
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Your Quinoa Habit Really Did Help Peru's Poor. But There's Trouble Ahead
The price of quinoa tripled from 2006 to 2013 as America and Europe discovered this new superfood. That led to scary media reports that the people who grew it in the high Andes mountains of Bolivia and...
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Monsanto CEO Says 'Roundup Is Not A Carcinogen’ But 94 Scientists From Around...
Last week, Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant sat down with Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson for a wide-ranging, two-part interview about everything Monsanto, from genetically modified crops and the future of...
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Farm Tools for Women, by Women - Food Justice
When Ann Adams and Liz Brensinger started a small heirloom vegetable farm in the early 1990s, they called their new venture Green Heron Farms, after the birds that nested in a copse of trees on their...
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The Future of Food According to Alice Waters
How many times has Alice Waters’ The Art of Simple Food saved you from a complete disaster in the kitchen? This is the cookbook that explained how to properly cut an onion through its whimsical...
View ArticleIn Photos: Celebrating Eight Years of the White House Kitchen Garden Spring...
The First Lady welcomed students and guests from across the country to plant the White House Kitchen Garden for the eighth year in a row, and final time as First Lady. This annual springtime tradition...
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Americans’ junk food habits start in toddler years. At age 1, we eat fries...
The first few months of a child's life are a glorious — and healthful — time for eating. There are the tentative swallows of soupy cereal grains. The sweet bites of neon-green pureed peas. The smears...
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Ian Leslie
Robert Lustig is a paediatric endocrinologist at the University of California who specialises in the treatment of childhood obesity. A 90-minute talk he gave in 2009, titled Sugar: The Bitter Truth,...
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Is spirulina the new kale? A Thai startup is bringing back the tiny green algae
The hot Thai sun is beating down on the rooftop of the Hotel Novotel Bangkok on Siam Square, in downtown Bangkok. There, a few dozen white barrels line the edges of the rooftop; inside, a bright green...
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Reducing food waste would mitigate climate change, study shows
Reducing food waste around the world would help curb emissions of planet-warming gases, lessening some of the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather and rising seas, scientists said on...
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Here's How Many Resources We Burn on Food No One Eats
Whether you’re counting by calories, pounds, or dollars, the world is wasting a huge amount of food. But there’s also another way to measure it: The quantity of resources we burn up for nothing at all....
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Here’s everything we know about how to talk about climate change
Talking about climate change is harder than it sounds (imagine a game of charades in which you must suddenly convince your friends they’re in imminent, life-threatening danger.) The threat is too big...
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Our wasted food is a huge environmental problem
The more scientists study the issue of food waste — and its worrying implications for both the environment and global food security — the clearer it becomes how much of a problem it is. Now, new...
View ArticleTalking Foraging and Sustainability with Wild Edibles Expert Leda Meredith
This week, we're excited to highlight the work of Leda Meredith, who writes and teaches about foraging, food preservation and sustainable food systems. Leda Meredith has been foraging since she was a...
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Plans to change animal welfare codes abandoned by government
The government has abandoned a controversial plan to repeal animal welfare codes. The plan would have put standards into the hands of the livestock industry. Animal welfare groups - including the RSPCA...
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Two widely used pesticides likely to harm 97% of endangered species in US
Almost all of the 1,700 most endangered plants and animals in the US are likely to be harmed by two widely used pesticides, an alarming new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) analysis has found....
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Is Samoa's Obesity Epidemic A Harbinger For Other Developing Nations?
The tiny Samoan islands have among the highest rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the world — and diet and weight-related health issues have been rising in these Pacific nations since the 1970s....
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No restitution for Peanut Corporation of America victims
The four men in federal prison for their crimes involving the Peanut Corporation of America and a deadly Salmonella outbreak won’t have to pay any restitution to their victims, federal Judge W. Louis...
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Bee advocates victorious in Maryland General Assembly
Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban consumers from using a type of pesticide that's believed to harm bees, following final approval in the General Assembly. Lawmakers gave the final OK...
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