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The war over Chesapeake Bay
LANCASTER, Pa. — Linn Moedinger's farm has been in his family for 10 generations, dating back to 1711, 150 acres of rich fields and meandering streams nestled in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch...
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Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future
A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no one had ever spoken of. I registered on Ancestry.com, plugged in the little I knew, and soon was found by a...
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Moving Forward Together
Cafeterias in schools and early care locations, colleges and universities, hospitals and other institutional settings serve tens of millions of Americans every day, placing the farm to cafeteria...
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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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Short films. Big ideas: Farmed with love
This year another eight brilliant finalists were handpicked as winners across a number of categories. Over the next few weeks we’ll be talking about each of them, and inviting you to watch the films....
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Waste Not Want Not: major new Grocer campaign to fight food waste
Print Email Save As Dr Julian Parfitt, one of the world’s leading authorities on food waste, was compiling his landmark report for Wrap on food waste in the UK’s grocery supply chain, he did not expect...
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Dinner & a Movie with LSP
821 E. 35th St, Minneapolis, MN 55407Google Map » RSVP to Mark Rusch, 612-722-6377, mrusch@landstewardshipproject.org Join the Land Stewardship Project on Friday, May 27, beginning at 7 p.m., for...
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Food shortages take toll on Venezuelans' diet
Not so long ago, whenever Juan González would go to the butcher he’d buy a few nice steaks for himself and cow lung, known here as bofe, to chop up and feed his dog. “Now bofe is what I eat, when I can...
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Short films. Big ideas: Everybody eats
This year another eight brilliant finalists were handpicked as winners across a number of categories. Over the next few weeks we’ll be talking about each of them, and inviting you to watch the films....
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Business Of Disaster: Insurance Firms Profited $400 Million After Sandy
Business Of Disaster: Insurance Firms Profited $400 Million After Sandy Listen· 21:38 21:38 On a cold rainy day last fall, dozens of people gathered in a plaza across the street from New Jersey's state...
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Sugar’s Not Just Bad for You—It’s Bad for Coca-Cola’s Business
Now is not a great time to be in the sugar business. On the health front, Philadelphia is joining the list of cities that want to tax people on sugar-sweetened drinks, and the Food and Drug...
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Taxing Sugar to Fund a City
OVER the last decade or so, taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages have been proposed in a handful of American cities; they’ve failed all but once. Sometimes, this has been through a lack of governmental...
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Celebrity Chefs Hope to Press Congress on Food Waste
Celebrities often land on Capitol Hill to testify about world atrocities, advocate medical research or defend the rights of musicians. Now, the chefs are coming to press for new food policies. On...
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125 Recipes to Help Fight Food Waste
Forty percent of food in the United States goes uneaten. Forty percent. It’s a statistic we’ve talked about before, multiple times in fact, but one that bears repeating because the number is so...
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UN expert calls for tax on meat production
Governments should tax meat production in order to stem the global rise in consumption and the environmental damage that goes with it, according to a UN expert. The world faces serious environmental...
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When Houston Ended Glass Recycling This 8-year-old Saw a Healthy Business...
HOUSTON—Eight-year-old Tristan “Pan” Berlanga never dreamed of starting his own business. “I’ve always wanted to be a basketball player,” he says as he and his business partner, 28-year-old David...
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Senator Stabenow's 'Smart' Labels Would Hit Her Hometown Residents Hard
With the worst broadband coverage in the country, Detroit residents would be left in the dark when it comes to product ingredients A handful of multinational agribusiness and food companies have spent...
View ArticleGuidance for Industry: Ingredients Declared as Evaporated Cane Juice
Available in PDF (71KB) Docket No. FDA-2009-D-0430 for commenting Federal Register Notice Constituent Update More Labeling & Nutrition Guidance Documents & Regulatory Information Contains...
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Acidifying Waters Put Dungeness Crabs at Risk
When it comes to American culinary institutions, the Dungeness crabs that are hauled ashore from California to Washington state every winter season are the crustacean equivalents of apple pie. The...
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'Evaporated cane juice' should be declared as 'sugar,' says FDA; get ready...
The use of the term ‘evaporated cane juice’ (ECJ) to describe a crystalized sugar derived from sugar cane has prompted scores of lawsuits against firms from Chobani to Trader Joe’s in which plaintiffs...
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