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On The Trail Of The Wily Wild Hog
On The Trail Of The Wily Wild Hog Listen· 6:40 6:40 Andrew Herrington slips on a battered green backpack, stashes a .308 bolt-action rifle under his arm and steps off a boat onto the steep, rocky...
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Canada Approves Sale of Genetically Modified Salmon
It's North America's most contentious fish: a salmon conceived in Massachusetts and raised in Panama. It's AquAdvantage, a genetically modified salmon from the company AquaBounty. After a comprehensive...
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Evaporated Cane Juice? Puh-leeze. Just Call It Sugar, FDA Says
The Food and Drug Administration seems intent on bringing sugar out of the shadows. Not only will food companies have to reveal, right on the package, how much sugar they've added to food; they also...
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EU agency wants 65 pct cut in farm use of last: ditch antibiotic
LONDON Agricultural use of a last-resort antibiotic should be cut by two-thirds to limit the spread of dangerous drug resistance, European medicine regulators said on Thursday. The demand for strict...
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Infection Raises Specter of Superbugs Resistant to All Antibiotics
American military researchers have identified the first patient in the United States to be infected with bacteria that are resistant to an The patient is well now, but the case raises the specter of...
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Privately funded food safety lab opens at Cornell University
A new food safety lab opened April 29 on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY, funded by a $250,000 pledge from the Rich Family Foundation. The foundation is affiliated with Rich Products Corp.,...
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Australia, the time for pussy footing is over
In mid March of this year I woke up to a shock announcement from the UK that they would be implementing a sugary drinks tax in 2018. It was only a shock because I have developed quite an interest in...
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“Game changing” study links cellphone radiation to cancer
It's the moment we've all been dreading. Initial findings from a massive federal study, released on Thursday, suggest that radio-frequency (RF) radiation, the type emitted by cellphones, can cause...
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How a Former Vegetarian Became a Butcher and Ethical Meat Advocate
Before she was a butcher, Meredith Leigh was a vegetarian. She was fascinated by plants and loved vegetables—how they grew, the way they tasted right out of the field, how they changed color and...
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Farm Belt Banks Tighten the Buckle
May 26, 2016 7:42 p.m. ET Banks are tightening credit for U.S. farmers amid a rise in delinquencies, forcing some growers to turn to alternative sources of loans. When U.S. agriculture was booming this...
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The super-bug nightmare we always feared is upon us
Late last year, a team of of Chinese and UK researchers shocked the global public health world when they identified a strand of E. coli circulating among Chinese pigs that had developed resistance to...
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Brazil’s impeachment crisis is bad news for climate change
This is a guest post from André Guimarães, executive director of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, and Stephan Schwartzman, senior director of tropical forest policy at the Environmental...
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Trump woos the heartland
Donald Trump may be a penthouse-dwelling New York City slicker, but he’s winning hearts in rural America — and his campaign has quietly started reaching out to farmers to bolster support in key...
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Monsanto boss could net $70 million from a Bayer takeover
LONDON Monsanto boss Hugh Grant could land more than $70 million if the world's largest seed company is taken over by German chemicals giant Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE). The U.S. firm said it was open to...
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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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20 Iconic Delis of the Greater New York Area
Once Jewish delis were the backbone of the New York food scene; now their numbers are greatly diminished. Low-fat and anti-meat mania over the last couple of decades has had its effect, but so have...
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Nestlé’s Sugar Empire Is on a Health Kick
Nestlé is by far the largest food company in the world. Its 335,000 employees produce more than 2,000 brands, manufactured in 436 factories across 85 countries. It’s Europe’s most valuable corporation,...
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Monsanto Is On A Major Losing Streak
Monsanto's list of problems is growing like a weed. Now, the world's largest seed company seems vulnerable to a $42 billion takeover bid by its German rival Bayer, maker of the eponymous Aspirin brand....
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Loving The Ugly (Produce): It May Just Change Your Life
I used to think that the fruits and veggies I saw in supermarkets were all there was. I thought this perfection of fruit and veggie color, size, and shape was how nature had intended our food to be. If...
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All-Beef, No Butcher: Meet the Minds Behind Lab-Grown Burgers
MAASTRICHT, Netherlands—Selling the merits of an all-beef burger to a crowd of vegans and vegetarians is never easy. After all, as any of its proponents might tell you, a meatless diet is a...
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