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Why Vermont’s GMO labels will be showing up in your grocery stores
In the next few months, you may see a new phrase on the labels of some foods at the grocery story: “produced with genetic engineering.” Popout Share downloadListen to the Story. These disclaimers have...
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How 'Maintainers,' Not 'Innovators,' Make the World Turn
New technologies and their inventors are often celebrated as society’s heroes. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Larry Page: These are all contemporary “innovators” whose “visionary ideas” and...
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A Radical Attempt to Save the Reefs and Forests
Ruth Gates fell in love with the ocean while watching TV. When she was in elementary school, she would sit in front of “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau,” mesmerized. The colors, the shapes, the...
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Lawsuits Charge that 3M Knew About the Dangers of Its Chemicals
FOR DECADES 3M was the primary producer of C8, or PFOA, and was the sole producer of a related chemical known as PFOS. But while DuPont was caught up in a massive class action suit over C8, 3M has...
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Antibiotics in food: are we facing a crisis?
Some of the world’s leading fast food, pub and restaurant groups are under pressure to stop serving meat and poultry from animals routinely given antibiotics. A group of powerful City investors is...
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How Climate Change is Impacting American Agriculture
This winter was the warmest in the lower 48 states since record keeping started 121 years ago, according to National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration. A lot of that is because of a strong El Niño...
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Roberts calls for GMO labeling pressure as BIO flies in
With help from Catherine Boudreau, Martine Powers and Victoria Guida ROBERTS CALLS FOR GMO LABELING PRESSURE AS BIO FLIES IN: As biotech industry representatives head to Capitol Hill today, GMO...
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Shirley Sherrod's Fight for Civil Rights and Farmers
Blog | April 12, 2016 For more than three decades, farm advocates have been invaluable, supporting farmers across the country in times of crisis and through important changes to their farm businesses....
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California soda tax bill pulled without a vote
Elections come and go, legislative leaders rise and fall, but one constant remains in Sacramento: Soda taxes can’t get traction. A bill to impose a two-cents-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages was...
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Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered...
Christopher E Ramsden, medical investigator Daisy Zamora, epidemiologist Sharon Majchrzak-Hong, research chemist Keturah R Faurot, epidemiologist Steven K Broste, retired statistician Robert P Frantz,...
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If You Eat Fast Food You're Getting a Generous Helping of Toxic Chemicals
Most busy Americans have a powerful push-pull relationship with fast food. While they may know the facts—most fast food is high in fat, saltsugar and can lead to increased risk of diabetes, heart...
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Disturbing new evidence about what common pesticides can do to brains
For defense against the fungal pathogens that attack crops—think the blight that bedeviled Irish potato fields in the 19th century—farmers turn to fungicides. They're widely sprayed on fruit,...
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The Looming Threat of Avian Flu
Even at a distance, it was obvious that there was something odd about the compost pile behind one of Brad Moline’s long white barns. Moline, 37, tops six feet, but the pile towered above him. It was 30...
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European Parliament votes to ban most uses of glyphosate
Monsanto's 'probably carcinogenic' Roundup on open retail sale. Photo: Mike Mozart via Flickr (CC BY). More articles about Scotland's secret cat slaughter revealed in FOI documents Stronger storms...
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Farm to Early Care and Education
Use the quick guide to search through our resource database. You can search by topic, setting, or keywords in order to find exactly what you are looking for. Choose a filtering mechanism above to get...
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At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction
The restaurant’s chalkboard makes claims as you enter from the valet parking lot. At the hostess stand, a cheery board reads, “Welcome to local, farm-fresh Boca.” Brown butcher paper tops tables and...
View ArticleEverything You've Always Wanted to Know About Ramps
Spring has sprung, and that means ramp season is officially in full swing. You know, ramps: those cute, terribly en vogue little vegetables with the slightly unappealing name, that appear on every hip...
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Lives on the Line: The high human cost of chicken
We eat a lot of it—89 pounds per person each year. Chicken is America’s most popular meat. From nuggets to sandwiches to wings, poultry is a $50-billion industry. But how does all that chicken reach...
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The Long Shadow of Childhood Hunger
We all know that hunger is a problem in America, but it can be difficult for many of us to fully grasp its effects, especially when it comes to children. Almost 50 million Americans are food insecure,...
View ArticleMeet the Couple Running the Only All-Organic Farmers' Market in New York State
While on a morning walk one day, Patti and Doug Wood came up with the idea for a farmers' market in their hometown of Port Washington, situated on the north shore of Long Island. And not just any...
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