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Dr. Thomas Farley Takes on Big Food and Big Tobacco
A century ago, most local health departments concentrated their efforts on fighting infectious diseases like cholera, polio and tuberculosis. But today, many health departments have a very different...
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Here's what I learned inside the country's most controversial company
I normally cover the agrichemical industry from afar—parsing World Health Organization pesticide assessments, say, or analyzing mega-mergers. But on a recent afternoon, I found myself plunged into the...
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OSHA finalizes protection for food safety whistleblowers
Food company employees — from field workers to grocery store clerks — are on the front lines of food safety efforts but are sometimes reluctant to speak up about problems because they fear retaliation....
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Tim Caulfield on a mission to debunk celebrity health advice
LOS ANGELES — Canadian lawyer Tim Caulfield has made it his mission to expose fraudulent health advice — particularly when it comes from Hollywood stars. He’s a relentless debunker on Twitter. And his...
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Walk out of a restaurant at lunch tomorrow and throw an uneaten half-sandwich onto the sidewalk; see what happens. People on the street will glare at you with barely disguised contempt. A few of them...
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Can we actually make a difference by changing the way we eat?
You’ve probably seen the statistic: According to the United Nations, we’ll need to produce 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed ourselves. That goal of increasing production by 70 percent, which is...
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Nestle Axes GMO Ingredients and Additives in Some U.S. Ice Cream
Nestle SA is eliminating artificial flavors and colors from some U.S. ice-cream products as the world’s biggest food company steps up efforts to remove additives from its portfolio. The maker of...
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Appropriators move to block FDA on sodium
APPROPRIATORS MOVE TO BLOCK FDA ON SODIUM: You might have missed it during the marathon seven-hour House agriculture spending bill markup on Tuesday, but appropriators approved a provision to block the...
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Tom Colicchio: 6 Tips to Enjoy More Food and Waste Less of It
When I found out that America wastes 40% of its food, I was shocked. This is a country where nearly 50 million people aren’t sure where their next meal is coming from. Yet we throw away millions of...
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Businesses find new opportunity in food that once went to waste
Bay Area shoppers will soon be able to get a new kind of local produce at Whole Foods stores. Affectionately known as ugly produce, the fruits and vegetables are perfectly healthy and safe yet are...
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Treasury's Lew to announce Hamilton to stay on $10 bill
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Wednesday will announce a decision to keep Alexander Hamilton on the front of the $10 bill and put leaders of the movement to give women the right to vote on the back of...
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Dirt First
Rick Haney, gangly and garrulous, paces in front of a congregation of government conservationists, working the room for laughs before he gets to the hard data. The U.S. Department of Agriculture soil...
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Tesco changes rules on Kenya green beans to cut food waste
Tesco is to relax rules on fine green beans imported from Kenya in a move expected to save more than 135 tonnes of edible crops from going to waste every year. The UK’s largest retailer said shoppers’...
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Shifting Diets for a Sustainable Food Future
Installment 11 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future shows that for people who consume high amounts of meat and dairy, shifting to diets with a greater share of plant-based foods could significantly...
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Instagram’s White Savior Barbie neatly captures what’s wrong with...
Savior Barbie stands in front of a chalkboard in a run-down classroom somewhere in Africa. “It’s so sad that they don’t have enough trained teachers here. I’m not trained either, but I’m from the...
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Vegetable soup recalled because of botulism potential
Vegetable soup distributed to retailers and farmers markets in three states is under recall because laboratory tests showed it could be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, which causes botulism...
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After Fires In West, Mushroom Hunters 'Chase The Burn'
Right now, and in the coming weeks, commercial and amateur mushroom hunters will scour hills from Northern California to Alaska, land ravaged by fires last summer and fall. "Sometimes we call it...
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If Bottled Water Is So Bad, Why Are Sales Hitting Records?
Bottled water is poised to become the king of beverages in the United States. Despite the fact that more than a dozen colleges have banned sale of bottled water at campus dining facilities, that sales...
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What does Student Loan Forgiveness Have to Do with Farming? Everything.
This is the first spring Davon Goodwin will spend running his own farm. The young farmer is planting grapes and elderberries and raising pastured pork and lamb on Off The Land (OTL) Farms. He’s leasing...
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Clinton 'very supportive' of Philadelphia soda tax
(CNN)Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she is "very supportive" of a plan by the mayor of Philadelphia to tax soda in order to pay for universal pre-school. Clinton was speaking at a forum in Philadelphia...
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