Why Is Bernie Sanders Making Right-Wing Arguments Against Taxing Soda?
The benefit of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is, or at least should be, that it’s broadening the horizons of liberal ambition. But the most recent debate within the primary has inverted the...
View ArticleBeneath An Ugly Outside, Marred Fruit May Pack More Nutrition
When orchardist Eliza Greenman walks through a field of apple trees and gazes upon a pocked array of blemished and buckled fruits — scarred from fighting fungus, heat and pests — she feels a little...
View ArticleJury finds couple guilty in son’s death from meningitis
The mother of a toddler who died of meningitis began weeping uncontrollably Tuesday after a jury found her and her husband guilty of failing to provide their ill son with the necessaries of life. David...
View ArticleGlenn Wayne Wholesale Bakery Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Peanuts in...
Glenn Wayne Wholesale Bakery 1-800-255-0711 View Product Photos Glenn Wayne Wholesale Bakery of Bohemia, NY, is recalling select 7-ELEVEN FRESH TO GO brand cookies because they may contain undeclared...
View ArticleTime to stop legitimizing pseudoscientific health remedies
A Lethbridge jury found David and Collet Stephan guilty of not providing the necessities of life to their young child, Ezekiel. Instead of taking him to a physician for science-based treatment, they...
View ArticleFood and Farming Awards
"The BBC Food & Farming Awards belong to everyone because it’s a celebration of the most delicious and important things in our lives. It’s a real chance for the public to share the food stories...
View ArticleHow to make the perfect bacon sandwich
The people have spoken. The nation's favourite bacon butty recipe is - drum roll, please - white un-toasted sliced bread, smoked bacon and brown sauce. Shockingly, butter doesn't get a look-in. The...
View ArticleJoin The 2015 Food Revolution Summit with John & Ocean Robbins
How does Paul McCartney have the energy to put on epic 3-hour music concerts in front of tens of thousands of people year after year on international tours? How did Dr. Mark Hyman help the congregation...
View ArticleThere Are Almost No Black People Brewing Craft Beer. Here's Why.
I’m in a craft beer bar in Brooklyn, sipping a $9 stout and looking for black people. “Juicy” is on the speakers, and Notorious B.I.G. grew up a five-minute walk from my barstool here on the dividing...
View ArticleDirt 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...
View ArticleBy Following The Life Of A Strawberry, This Campaign Hopes To Make Food Waste...
Food waste is bad — bad for food security, bad for the economy, and bad for the environment. Current numbers estimate that 40 percent of the food that is grown in the United States is eventually thrown...
View Article'Farmsteads' Celebrates Golden State Growers on the Edge
The hardest part of working on a book highlighting California coastal farmers? Whittling the list of potential subjects down to a dozen growers who shine on the edge of the Golden State. In Farmsteads...
View ArticleThis Earth Day, Help Fight Deforestation and Climate Change One Hamburger at...
Building on the momentum of the Climate Accord in Paris and the upcoming meeting of global leaders on Earth Day to sign a historic climate change agreement, the Earth Day Network is launching a...
View Article“Keystone-ization” is the fossil fuel industry’s new nightmare
“Another Pipeline Rejected” is now the go-to headline for updates on new fossil fuel infrastructure in the United States. Does the growing file of scrapped pipeline plans forecast the...
View ArticleMost Retiring Farmers in New England Have No One to Take Over the Farm, New...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NORTHAMPTON, MA, April 25, 2016--Nearly 30 percent of New England's farmers are likely to exit farming in the next 10+ years, and nine out of ten are farming without a young...
View ArticleMeet the Women Running This Year's Food Book Fair
Brooklyn's Food Book Fair returns May 1 and 2. "It's like going to a record store where every bin holds deep cuts." That's how Amanda Dell describes Foodieodicals, the obscure Indie mag showcase at...
View ArticleCorn Belt Farmers Managing Weather-Related Risks Through Greater Soil...
Spring planting season in the Corn Belt reminds those of us living in the region that soil erosion is still a serious concern as we gear up for another year of intensive corn and soybean cultivation....
View ArticleA stuffed pepper became the spark for this radio reporter's California food...
Lisa Morehouse has spent the last year and a half asking Californians about the food they eat and the crops they grow. She calls the project “California Foodways,” and the goal is to get one story from...
View ArticleHouse Child Nutrition Bill Supports Farm to School, But Big Issues Remain
Representative Todd Rokita (R-IN), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education of the full House Education and Workforce Committee, recently introduced the...
View Article$500K challenge to improve local food supply gets underway
On your mark … get set … grow! The Food to Market Challenge — a collaboration between The Chicago Community Trust and Kinship Foundation — is officially underway. At stake: a cool $500,000. The...
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