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What You Need to Know About the GMO Mosquito Study in Florida
Growing up in Northern Ontario meant that I spent the summer months among hundreds of trees and freshwater lakes. As a result, on any given summer’s day, mosquitoes were as common as the rising sun....
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Workwear for Women Who Farm
Nicole DeVito, co-owner of Aravaipa Creekside Growers in Dudleyville, Arizona, says she hasn’t had a hard time finding work pants and boots that fit her well. “I do have a pair of women’s Carhartts,...
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Massive document leak spells 'end of TTIP'
Press releaseToday's publication of the 248-page leak of negotiating documents for the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) spells the end of the controversial EU-US...
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Opting Out of Coastal Madness to Live a Low-Overhead Life
Neal Gabler has been a formative writer for me: His Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity was one of the books that led me to think about leaving scholarship behind and write nonfiction...
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These documents could kill TTIP
Hundreds of leaked pages from the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) show that the deal could be about to collapse, according to campaigners. The huge leak – which...
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How a high school program is preserving seeds of the past for future generations
WALDOBORO, Maine — When researchers in Scotland needed seeds to grow Bere, a very old barley variety once cultivated for thousands of years in highlands, they looked across the Atlantic to a midcoast...
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Rise of robots a boost to small, diverse farms
Marilee Foster is not the kind of farmer who makes rash decisions. But when she heard about Rowbot, a lawn-mower-sized autonomous machine that can fertilize, mulch weeds and sow crops on 50 acres a...
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'A major part of the food business' is hostile to GMOs, says McConnell
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he hasn’t given up on passing a bill to pre-empt states from requiring special labels on food made with genetically modified organisms. During an “Open Mic”...
View ArticleCSM Bakery Solutions' Voluntary Recall of Cinnabon Stix® Due to Undeclared...
Loryn Francolfranco@focusbrands.com404-257-7004 Possible presence of peanut allergens in supplied ingredient Bakery supplier, CSM Bakery Solutions, has notified Cinnabon of the recall of Cinnabon Stix...
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It's Time for Soda's Superstar Songsters to Change Their Tune
Remember the old adage often repeated to young children: "Beware of strangers with candy?" Well, it's more relevant than ever. There are people with self-serving intentions tempting your children with...
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Clean Energy is on the Decline
Originally published in Public Utility Fortnightly [download pdf] Utilities that own nuclear power plants are in serious financial trouble. While it is tempting to blame low natural gas prices and...
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Wanted in San Francisco: Cooks
Former Nopa and Nopalito sous chef Eddie Dick decamped to Tucson: rising rents in the city forced his hand. Ditto Alex Gandelman, also a Nopa kitchen alum, who departed for Portland. Another ex-Nopa...
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Under Attack, Commodity Promotion Programs Try To Hide Their Emails
An increasing number of people are discovering, to their embarrassment, that their emails are subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Scientists at state-funded universities have been forced to...
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Ted Cruz is blaming California’s water woes on a fish
At the California Republican Party Convention on Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz blamed the state’s economic and water woes on a tiny fish known as the Delta smelt. In recent...
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At Food World 'Oscars,' Category Sneakily Redefines All-American Cuisine
The food glitterati will gather in Chicago Monday night for the black-tie James Beard Chef and Restaurant Awards, known as the "Oscars of the food world." Most of the categories sound like industry...
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Farmer plows Prince tribute into field
EDGELEY, N.D. -- Gene Hanson is an artist with a plow and his fields are his canvas. In the wake of Prince's death, he thought: Let's go crazy.
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Cartoonist says his work got him axed
A northern Iowa freelance cartoonist says he was fired for drawing an editorial cartoon that bemoaned Iowa farmers' dwindling profits while CEOs at large agricultural corporations earn millions of...
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What is Going On With Glyphosate? EPA's Odd Handling of Controversial Chemical
The Environmental Protection Agency's ongoing risk assessment of the world's most widely used herbicide is starting to generate more questions than answers. On Monday, it also generated a giant "oops"...
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EPA takes offline report that says glyphosate not likely carcinogenic
CHICAGO The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday pulled a report offline that concluded glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, saying the document was inadvertently published...
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Resettling the First American ‘Climate Refugees’
But even a plan like this — which would move only about 60 people — has been hard to pull off. Three previous resettlement efforts dating back to 2002 failed after they became mired in logistical and...
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