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D.C.’s food scene gets a prestigious boost: Michelin inspection (and stars)
The Washington food scene’s decade of dramatic transformation has brought us artisanal toast, $22 cocktails and numerous accolades. Now, the city’s foodscape will be recognized by one of the world’s...
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Action against obesity, type 2 diabetes and tooth decay: the individual,...
As human beings, we are programmed to eat to survive; it is in our makeup. We evolved and adapted biologically to an environment where food was scarce. However, whilst our biology has remained the...
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Why Christopher Kimball Is Moving On From America’s Test Kitchen
“What’s the worst that can happen?” he asked over dinner in Cambridge one evening. “Public humiliation?” The move is certainly a gamble. Mr. Kimball, who is worth tens of millions of dollars, turns 65...
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Venezuela Is Running Out Of Beer Amid Severe Economic Crisis
Lorenzo Mendoza greets and kisses worker at his shuttered brewery in Caracas, Venezuela. He's trying to boost morale. Mendoza is the chief executive of Venezuelan food giant Empresas Polar, which was...
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Houston flooding is a perfect storm of climate change and bad urban planning
Flooding in Texas killed six over Memorial Day weekend, bringing the death toll from the state’s unprecedented floods this year to at least 14. The area surrounding Houston has been hit especially...
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Mysterious Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak Stumps Disease Detectives
The last time, we heard about a "mysterious hemorrhagic fever" in a country, it was February 2014. The outbreak was in Guinea. And by the time doctors had pinpointed the culprit, Ebola was spiraling...
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Renewable energy surges to record levels around the world
New solar, wind and hydropower sources were added in 2015 at the fastest rate the world has yet seen, a study says. Investments in renewables during the year were more than double the amount spent on...
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How Industry Money Keeps Unsafe Products in Wide Use
Loading Please Wait | 11,290 views Please or to continue. By Dr. Mercola The recent federal lawsuit filed against former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg again...
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Can Compost Recycle Our Drugs?
A half-mile down the dusty road of a northern California ranch stands a large, black rectangle, silhouetted against the afternoon sun. Under a black water-resistant cover sit nine of the most...
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Statement by Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis
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Is Monsanto hot for Bayer's pesticides?
"We work to help farmers produce food in a sustainable way," states Monsanto's website. "Monsanto uses plant breeding and biotechnology to create seeds that grow into stronger, more resilient crops...
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Will Cigna And Anthem Merge? How Health Insurance Companies Pump Money Into...
Is bigger necessarily better? That age-old question is no abstraction when it comes to your healthcare premiums, as Cigna and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield are pushing to merge into the largest health...
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Is Buying Organic Really Worth It?
Buying organic food typically involves shelling out a premium. But is the extra pinch to the pocket actually worth it? Last week, a Department of Agriculture report revealed just how much it really...
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Obama takes aim at salt
The Obama administration issued sweeping salt reduction goals Wednesday for foods ranging from French fries to granola — a controversial move aimed at getting Americans to eat healthier. The...
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Food and Environment Reporting Network
The waiter at New Orleans’ Red Fish Grill, a wiry and spring-loaded man, recommended the whole red snapper. “Head, tail, eyes, looking at you up off the plate,” he said. I opted instead for the snapper...
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Seven Major FSMA Rules Now Final
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently finalized two of the remaining major rules required by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA): one governing shippers, carriers, and any other...
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‘GMO Crops Are Tools of a Chemical Agriculture System’
Janine Jackson interviewed Patty Lovera about Monsanto protests for the May 27, 2016, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. PlayStop pop out MP3 Link Janine Jackson:...
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House Speaker Paul Ryan Reveals ‘the Hardest Question’ He Gets (and It’s Not...
Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan says he wasn’t trying to make parenting history last fall when he accepted the job of House Speaker on one condition: weekends off at home with his wife and their three...
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It’s Crucial the New Superbug Was in a Urinary Tract Infection
The alarm over the arrival of a grave new superbug in the United States is obscuring part of the story that is crucial to understanding what might happen next. Here it is: The woman who was carrying an...
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Trump’s Attack on a Judge Is an Open Appeal to Racism. Don’t Normalize It.
Republicans who have sworn allegiance to Donald Trump—the majority leaders of the United States House and Senate, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, and numerous governors and members...
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