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Tell Pop Secret to Stop Killing Bees!
It’s no secret we love popcorn, In fact, Americans consume more than 16 billion quarts of popcorn each year. But we’re getting more than we bargained for in all those bowls of popcorn: bee-toxic...
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Drugging Animals on Factory Farms—ENOUGH Already.
We’ve all grown accustomed to the steady parade of television ads—$3 billion year worth, by some estimates— urging us to “ask our doctors” about the latest miracle drug. Pharmaceutical ads have been...
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Meet The Women Who Decide What You Eat For Dinner
It’s fun to talk about meal kit services—we love to debate their merits, argue over their sustainability, test them out, compare them. And yet these conversations tend to center around the customer,...
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Organic Breakfast Parfaits for #WakeuptoOrganic
These organic breakfast parfaits were the second of three recipes which I demonstrated at The Natural Organic Products Europe exhibition at The ExCel last weekend. I have been working with The Organic...
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What Small Farms Need to Compete With Corporate Food
When Heather Retberg started selling raw milk a few years ago, she ran up against an obstacle that she felt sure would ruin her family’s farm. Retberg, of Penobscot, Maine, remembers the state quality...
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Krispy Kreme Name to Be Struck from Children's Clinic
We should have known it wouldn’t last. The powers that be at UNC are apparently yielding to outside agitators who don’t understand the logic of putting Krispy Kreme into the name of their children’s...
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Farm Storage Loans Expanded to Help Farmers Reach Local Food Markets
Small and mid-scale family farms operating in burgeoning local and regional food markets received some welcome news from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today. USDA’s Farm Service Agency...
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Caught in the Middle: Farmers Seek a New and Improved GMO Debate
Our recent feature on GMOs caused plenty of heated debate, and some pretty pointed criticisms from leading thinkers in the world of food and farming. But it also garnered praise as a rare example of...
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Purple Grain: North Dakota Farmer Plows Prince's Symbol in Field
EDGELEY, N.D. — A retiree in a tiny community in North Dakota has paid tribute to Prince in perhaps the most unique way a farmer can. Gene Hanson is a retired farmer in Edgeley who always liked the...
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Can You Really Know If That Pizza Is Antibiotic-Free?
Some of the world’s biggest restaurant chains have taken major steps to voluntarily limit the use of antibiotics in their supply chains. Customers trying to understand these new policies might need to...
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Five Easy Ways to Reduce Food Waste
In the US, we waste roughly 40 percent of all the food we produce. This is totally insane - and it's an environmental disaster. Food production is a resource-intensive process, requiring water, energy,...
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Cartoonist Fired From Farm News for Pro-Farmer Cartoon
When he paused to talk, he revealed he was leaning against a fence, and the heifers were staring at him, hard. “They are going, How come you are not feeding me right now?” Mr. Friday said. “And I have...
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Our Top 50 Food Activists
Humans have been growing food, cooking and eating for centuries, but it’s never been more difficult to navigate our food system than it is right now. Processing, marketing, healthwashing, genetic...
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What Makes Texas Texas
I have met Texas Rangers who actually do seem larger than life and artists and writers who have taken the state’s entrepreneurial energies in entirely cool directions. I’ve met conspiracy theorists,...
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Liverpool in drive to name and shame fizzy drink brands
Liverpool city council is to start naming and shaming heavily sugared drinks, such as Lucozade and Coca-Cola, in a hard-hitting drive to warn parents about the health dangers they pose to their...
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Is Your Pet Lonely and Bored?
The way the pet industry advertises and sells animals gives the impression that having a pet is easy and fun, and that pets themselves are cheap and disposable toys. You can, for instance, stop at the...
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‘People before profits!’ Thousands rally against TTIP, US corporate rule, GMO...
Get short URL Tens of thousands came out in the capital of Italy to decry the secretive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal between the EU and the United States, which protesters...
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What Is 'Natural' Food? A Riddle Wrapped In Notions Of Good And Evil
Americans have until May 10th to help the Food and Drug Administration with one of philosophy's greatest riddles: What is the meaning of "natural"? Given our current attitudes, the riddle might be...
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Slim pickings for a meat free lunch in supermarkets & high street...
Category :Plant-based eating Eating Better news Behaviour change Business Food service Sustainable diets Meat consumption Who doesn't grab a sandwich for lunch? Some even say it's our national dish!...
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