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Facebook’s Troubling One-Way Mirror
So Facebook, born of the open Internet that knocked down the traditional barriers to information, becomes a gatekeeper itself. It now has an inordinate power to control a good part of the national...
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Germany’s Bayer Offers $62 Billion Cash to Acquire Monsanto
Bayer AG made an unsolicited $62 billion all-cash offer to acquire Monsanto Co. to create the world’s biggest supplier of farm chemicals and genetically modified seeds, a proposed acquisition that...
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Plant-Based, the Beyond Burger Aims to Stand Sturdy Among Meat
For the handful of companies working to develop plant-based alternatives to meat, finding a hearty stand-in for the humble hamburger is the holy grail. One of those companies, Beyond Meat, says it has...
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When it Comes to Food Access, are Grocery Store Hours as Important as Location?
There are two options for buying groceries near Cathy’s home in West Oakland, California: a tiny and sometimes expensive co-op and a 99 cent store. Although she loves the co-op, they’re only open until...
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Trump acknowledges climate change
Donald Trump says he is “not a big believer in global warming.” He has called it “a total hoax,” “bullshit” and “pseudoscience.” But he is also trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his...
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Why the new nutrition labels won't work
The Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Nutrition has a tendency to cling to bad policies and reject any new ideas. So it was back in the 1990s, and so it is now—a couple of decades later. The...
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Vilsack Stays Mum On Ag’s Current Consolidation Boom
The country’s top agriculture official, Tom Vilsack, is declining to comment on some of the largest mergers the farm economy has ever seen. Possible deals between Germany-based Bayer and American seed...
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Invasive Lionfish Coming to a Menu Near You
American seafood enthusiasts have spent years dining on salmon, shrimp, and the occasional mahi mahi. Now a new, rather unexpected fish is starting to creep onto menus and into seafood shelves at...
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A secret ingredient for ending world hunger
Interviewer: “Have you ever done anything to help your family have enough food or to make food last a long time?” Child: “Yes.” Interviewer:“What do you do?” Child: “I normally don’t eat it that much.”...
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School lunch menu is about more than taste, price
When asked to picture a typical school lunch, most of us think of sad-looking chicken nuggets or soggy french fries. For many of the millions of public school students, that’s not far off mark. To...
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School lunch menu is about more than taste, price
When asked to picture a typical school lunch, most of us think of sad-looking chicken nuggets or soggy french fries. For many of the millions of public school students, that’s not far off mark. To...
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Lake Mead declines to lowest level in history
The nation’s largest reservoir has broken a record, declining to the lowest level since it was filled in the 1930s. Lake Mead reached the new all-time low on Wednesday night, slipping below a previous...
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How southern Africa is coping with worst global food crisis for 25 years
Drought is affecting 1.4 million people across seven of Angola’s 18 provinces. Food prices have rocketed and acute malnutrition rates have doubled, with more than 95,000 children affected. Food...
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Virginia Tech study aims to help explain honeybee losses
BLACKSBURG — Richard Reid of Montgomery County had beekeeping foisted upon him in 1972 by a landlord and happily kept at it until all his hives died in 1995. The 1990s kicked off a wave of honeybee...
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How corporate America bought Hillary Clinton for $21M
“Follow the money.” That telling phrase, which has come to summarize the Watergate scandal, has been a part of the lexicon since 1976. It’s shorthand for political corruption: At what point do...
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Plant-Based, the Beyond Burger Aims to Stand Sturdy Among Meat
For the handful of companies working to develop plant-based alternatives to meat, finding a hearty stand-in for the humble hamburger is the holy grail. One of those companies, Beyond Meat, says it has...
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"Small farmers are foundation to food security, not corporations"
May 22 has been declared International Biodiversity Day by the United Nations. It gives us an opportunity to become aware of the rich biodiversity that has been evolved by our farmers as co-creators...
View ArticleFood Gusto, Inc. Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Milk in Birdy 3 in 1...
(862) 264-6774Kit Sirichartchai 862-264-6774 Food Gusto, Inc. of Paterson, NJ, is recalling its Birdy 3 in 1 coffee mix (Robusta) because product contains undeclared milk. People who have an allergy or...
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European Trade Unions Join Fight against Glyphosate Herbicides
Trade unions across Europe have joined the Great Glyphosate Rebellion by urging the European Union to take precautionary action on the use of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide....
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