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The scientists trying to rid Lucky Charms of artificial colors are baffled by...
Trix? Check. Golden Grahams? Check. Reese’s Puffs? Check. In January, General Mills announced that it would be reformulating these cereals with no artificial colors or flavors. One cereal was notably...
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Private Tests Show Cancer-Linked Herbicide in Breakfast Foods; FDA mum on its...
If you started your day off with a whole wheat bagel and a bowl of instant strawberries-and-cream-flavored oatmeal today, you might think you made some fairly healthy breakfast choices. You might want...
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Protecting Organic Integrity through Enforcement
The mission of the National Organic Program (NOP) – part of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service – is to protect the integrity of the USDA organic seal. Consumers look for and trust the organic seal...
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The Devastating Consequences of Unequal Access to Healthy Food
Download Policy brief Technical appendix A Case for a National Food Policy Diabetes rates in the United States have nearly quadrupled over the past three decades. About 30 million Americans currently...
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TPP would hurt small scale farmers in developing countries, groups say
Minneapolis – More than 50 development, religious and sustainable agriculture groups are demanding that Congress reject the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) because of its potential impacts on small...
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Everything you need to know about pot’s environmental impact
Americans smoke a lot of weed. It’s a little tricky to get a handle on the actual numbers — there’s that whole “illegal” thing in a lot of places — but we can say there are at least 20 million users in...
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Do We Really Need Probiotics In Our Coffee, Granola And Nut Butter?
Picture a dusty, nomadic herdsman around 5000 B.C., trudging with his mare somewhere in Central Asia, and pausing to quaff a refreshingly tart yogurt drink from his gourd. Fast forward to the present...
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Chocolate milk maker wanted study touted with
NEW YORK — A small chocolate milk company wanted to tout the ability of its drink in helping high school athletes recover from concussions to coincide with the Will Smith movie “Concussion,” according...
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New survey highlights tension between love for the land and trying to make ends meet among North American family farmers. Find local farmer’ markets that support in-season organic food and make the...
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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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Adding Food into the Climate Equation: A Post-COP21 Agenda
Earth Day 2016 has special significance as signing day for the United Nations' COP21 Paris Climate Agreement, a landmark in the collective effort to fight climate change. While greenhouse gas emissions...
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The Detroit Food Academy Makes Teens Food Industry Ready
Nineteen-year-old Hassan Amaleki is on the fast track to a successful career in the food industry. By the time he graduated from high school in 2015, Amaleki had worked for a thriving food business,...
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A loophole is letting genetically modified foods sidestep American GMO...
A rather standard-looking white button mushroom has just planted itself at the center of the debate over genetically modified foods in the US. In a letter published on April 13 (pdf), the US Department...
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How the Government Decides What You Eat
Portraits of lawmakers in dark suits peered down from the walls as Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the secretary of Heath and Human Services, sat inside a congressional...
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The world's 4th-largest chemical giant wants to genetically modify corn to...
In a letter released to the public on Monday, chemical giant DuPoint Pioneer announced plans to market the first crop that uses a type of precise genetic modification called CRISPR-Cas 9. DuPont is...
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Pupils turn city school playground into tasty vegetable garden
A London school has transformed its playground into a garden of fruit and vegetables, so that its pupils can grow and eat their own food. Lots of children in cities live in flats or houses without a...
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How a Health Clinic Made a Local Grocery Store Part of Its Prescription
This article was originally published by Shelterforce. Sue Joss and Jason Barbosa might seem to be unlikely economic development partners. She is the veteran CEO of a major nonprofit health care...
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Stunning Photos Shatter The Stereotype Of What A Farmer Looks Like
When most people think of a farmer, they might envision an Old MacDonald type in a straw hat -- but that's far from reality. The Female Farmer Project is shattering the stereotypical image of a farmer...
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Sustainable Diets: What You Need to Know in 12 Charts
|PrintWe are what we eat, and what we eat has a profound impact on the planet. When people think about food and sustainability, they typically focus on how the food is produced. Is it, for example,...
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Keeping it Real: How Farmers’ Markets Verify Producer Claims
Once upon a time, back in the 1980s, farmers’ markets were pure. Local farmers gathered in convenient public places to sell food directly to customers, bypassing faceless wholesalers and giant...
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