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Six thoughts about Greenpeace’s attack on Ray Hilborn.
First, some background: Fisheries Scientist Under Fire For Undisclosed Seafood Industry Funding Ray Hilborn: Overfishing Denier Hilborn’s Response to Greenpeace Or, just read Trevor Branch’s timeline....
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McDonald’s quietly ended controversial program that was making parents and...
McDonald’s has ended a controversial practice of giving nutrition advice to students in schools, pulling back on a program that critics said was a subtle form of fast-food marketing that could imperil...
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Two Computer Scientists Are Programming An End To Food Waste In Chicago
Every day Rajesh Karmani has to solve a complex logistics puzzle. On one side are more than 100 food donors (restaurants, corporate cafeterias, groceries and catering companies). On the other are 250...
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'Solidarity Fridges' Offer Free Food To The Hungry, With Dignity
It’s like “take a penny, leave a penny” -- but with food. “Social fridges” or “solidarity fridges,” offering free food to the hungry or homeless, have been popping up across Argentina, according to...
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GMO Labeling: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Nearly 90% of Americans say genetically engineered food should be labeled, with high support across all ages, races and political affiliations, according to a December 2015 Mellman Group poll. It's...
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Is organic agriculture really better for the environment?
The whole point of organic agriculture is soil. Farm in such a way that your soil stays healthy — rich in organic matter, nutrients and microbial activity — and you can grow crops without the synthetic...
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A Humane Revolution
IN 1903, New Yorkers executed an elephant on Coney Island, effectively torturing her to death. Accounts vary a bit, but it seems Topsy was a circus elephant who had been abused for years and then...
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'Embodiment Of Grit': How Children Of Farm Workers Became Tech Professionals
An unlikely class of college graduates will walk the stage on Saturday. They're the product of intensive three-year bachelor's degree program in computer science called CSin3. We first told you about...
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Why Restaurants Are Ditching The Switch To No Tipping
In recent years, there's been a no-tipping movement within the restaurant industry. The idea has been to rectify a basic pay unfairness to even out the pay between tipped and untipped employees....
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The real value of urban farming. (Hint: It's not always the food.)
During World War II, millions of Americans planted "victory gardens" in their backyards, eventually supplying a hungry nation with 40 percent of its homegrown fruits and vegetables. Once the war was...
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An All-Volunteer Squad Of Farmers Is Turning Florida Lawns Into Food
In Florida, homeowners have a propensity for landscaping. They take great pride in the green carpet of grass in front of their homes. But one Florida man is working on a project that's turning his...
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This tiny American town is staking its future on Chinese foodies
LITTLE CRANBERRY ISLAND, MAINE — The long journey from this remote island of free-spirited fishermen to the most populous country in the world began, as it does most mornings, at just about sunrise....
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and I Support G.M.O. Labeling
Boston — MY first exposure to biotechnology was from my father. He grew up with juvenile Twenty-six years later, I became a founder of a biotechnology company that makes products with genetically...
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Can This Millennial Yogi Transform the Trucking Industry from the Inside?
In 2008, Jann Hedrick, a long haul trucker, went to a clinic for his biannual physical. He’d just finished a grueling round-trip drive between Florida and California and when the nurse took his blood...
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Oxfam: Poultry Industry Routinely Denies Workers Bathroom Breaks
The United States isn't exactly a hotbed of trade unionism and worker power. But presumably, most people can take for granted access to the bathroom while on the job. Not so for people who staff the...
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Chicken Giant Perdue Just Nixed a Nasty Clause from Its Contracts with Farmers
Back in 2014, a chicken farmer named Craig Watts allowed the animal-welfare outfit Compassion in World Farming to film inside one of his chicken houses, where Watts raises birds under contract with...
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Meet the one big ag company no longer playing chicken with antibiotics
The massive metal double doors open and I'm hit with a whoosh of warm air. Inside the hatchery, enormous racks are stacked floor to ceiling with brown eggs. The racks shake every few seconds, jostling...
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Welcome to the new Mother Jones
Forty years ago, operating out of a dingy office above a McDonald's on San Francisco's Market Street, a group of writers and editors inspired by Watergate decided to launch the equivalent of a...
View ArticleA Precautionary Recall of Three Cases of The Farmers Market Chopped Asian...
Fresh Express Consumer Response Center(800) 242-5472Donna Watkins(512) 266-0832 View Product Photos Orlando, Florida - A precautionary recall of three cases (containing 6 salads each) of 6.25 ounce The...
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Judge postpones to 2017 trial of Des Moines Water Works lawsuit
The trial of the potentially precedent-setting lawsuit by the Des Moines Water Works over high nitrate levels in river water was rescheduled to June 26, 2017, rather than starting this August, reports...
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