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Former Costco Executive Launches First Ever Certified Organic Fast-Food Chain
A former Costco executive is launching America's first fast-food chain that has been certified organic by the USDA. Erica Welton was a food buyer for Costco for 14 years before leaving to launch the...
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Living Soil, Green American Magazine, Winter 2015 Issue
Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a tireless crusader for economic, food, and gender justice. She earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of...
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The Rising Star of the Paris Climate Conference – Soil!
Center for Food Safety’s food and climate team went to the UN’s 21st Conference of Parties - COP21 with shovel-ready solutions and one big goal: to spread awareness of the vast, currently...
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At Incubators, Chefs Aim to Turn Recipes Into Big Businesses
Food entrepreneurs who share a warehouse kitchen space in Long Island City, Queens, talk about what makes their products special. Inside a brick warehouse in Queens, Free Bread turns out gluten-free...
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7 ways the soda industry 'follows tobacco's playbook to the letter'
ThrillistThe Food and Drug Administration proposed a sea change to American diets last month, recommending we limit our sugar intake to 50 grams — roughly the amount in a can and a half of Coke — a...
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As decision nears, opposition builds to offshore drilling along Atlantic Coast
VIRGINIA BEACH — When then-Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) first pushed the idea in 2010, it was easy to find Virginians who favored oil and gas drilling along the Virginia coast, even in this...
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USDA Ends COOL Enforcement With President's Signature on Omnibus Bill
Effective immediately, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says, USDA will no longer enforce the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) requirements for beef and pork products because COOL was repealed by...
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Courts Will Continue to Be Food Safety Enforcement's Big Stick in 2016
Criminal courts have played a prominent role in food safety during both 2014 and 2015, and that will continue in 2016. We know that much for certain just by the amount of work the courts are carrying...
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FDA Gets A Few More Warning Letters for 2015 in the Mail
A cheese manufacturer in Michigan and a seafood processor in New Jersey are on the receiving end of warning letters that are among the last for the year. The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
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First genetically edited cows arrive at UC Davis
New technique designed to help pack more cows into pens, trucks The two calves that grace a muddy pen on the UC Davis campus will never grow horns typical of their breed. Instead, they’ll always sport...
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Fixing the Holiday Food Drive with Fresh Produce Ordered Online
It’s one of the great ironies of the holiday season: Many of us donate food this time of year, but it’s not usually the type of food that improves the diets of food-insecure folks. Patrick O’Neill, the...
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It's practically impossible to define "GMOs"
Debates rage over what to do about genetically modified organisms, but we rarely stop to ask a more basic question: Do GMOs really exist? It’s an important question, because no one in this debate can...
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5 Things Monsanto Doesn't Want You to Know About the GMO Labeling Debate
Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made history when the federal agency approved the first genetically modified (GMO) animal for human consumption: AquaBounty Technologies’ GMO...
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A top chef from a world-famous restaurant wants to fix America’s school lunches
After serving as Noma’s chef de cuisine for three years and maintaining the standards that earned it a top spot among the world’s best restaurants, former Washingtonian Daniel Giusti will leave the...
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Agriculture, the unspoken piece of Paris climate-change deal
Chuck Abbott sends you the reporting you need every weekday morning on food and agriculture policy. And now FERN’s Ag Insider in going pro!
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Christmas Recipes
Jazz up some shop-bought mincemeat to make your mince pies the envy of your friends. Add some lemon and lime zest, dried cherries and a splash of good brandy. Before Christmas starts, make a couple of...
View ArticleHow marketers convinced us that we all need mint to fix our bad breath
Modern society provides us with all sorts of breath-freshening products: toothpaste, mints, mouthwash, gum, and even weird, translucent strips that dissolve in your mouth. By now, this seems quite...
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More Than Half the Trees in the Amazon at Risk of Extinction. Are Your...
The Amazon is one of the most biologically diverse places on earth. It is also diminishing rapidly. A new study published today in Science Advances looked at more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species and...
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Peppered with Questions
Chili peppers—why do we call them that? Chili comes from the Nahuatl word for the fruit, but the Spanish word for “pepper”—pimienta—existed in the pre-Columbian world. It referred, as it still does, to...
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Was Chipotle too busy avoiding the fake dangers of GMOs to focus on actual...
The news about Chipotle's food safety record keeps getting worse. In recent months, people in California, Washington state, Minnesota, and elsewhere have gotten sick after eating at Chipotle. Earlier...
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