How Long Can Florida's Citrus Industry Survive?
Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. Oranges ripen in a grove in Plant City, Fla. Citrus greening, a disease spread by a tiny insect that...
View Article3,000 Hepatitis A Vaccines at a Cost of $100,000 Due to Ill NY McDonalds Worker
David Shaw of the Finger Lakes Times reported today that the Seneca County Public Health recognized for its response to a recent hepatitis A scare after a McDonald’s worker in Waterloo was diagnosed...
View ArticleEating less meat isn’t just good for you, it could save the planet
The food writer Michael Pollan summed up how to eat healthily: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” It is unlikely that when the British and American governments issue new dietary guidelines the...
View ArticleCOP21 actions go ahead: 'We are not defending nature
As a couple years of planning draw to a close, the protests in Paris around the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference, or COP21, are shaping up to be an edgy and diverse...
View ArticleContaminating Our Bodies With Everyday Products
IN recent weeks, two major medical organizations have issued independent warnings about toxic chemicals in products all around us. Unregulated substances, they say, are sometimes linked to breast and...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: Time for More Criminal Prosecutions in Food Poisoning...
It has been a busy past several weeks for public health investigators (and lawyers) and uncomfortable (and sometimes deadly) for food poisoning victims, as well as for the management of several...
View ArticleJamie calls for pupil weigh-ins
As part of his anti-obesity campaign, Jamie Oliver wants the makers of breakfast cereals, burgers, sauces, yoghurts and biscuits to be forced to meet government deadlines to cut sugar and fat (David...
View ArticleNative American Tribe Bets On Olive Oil
The Yocha Dehe tribe grows, mills and markets its own extra-virgin olive oil. The tribe's mill uses top-of-the-line equipment imported from Florence, Italy. Courtesy of Lisa Morehouse hide caption The...
View ArticleGMO Salmon is Coming to a Store Near You. Will You Know When it Arrives?
Late last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved AquAdvantage salmon—the first edible genetically engineered animal to earn such an approval. The salmon, produced by AquaBounty...
View ArticleOrganic Nearly as Productive as Industrial Farming, New Study Says
Dr. Doug Gurian-Sherman is Center for Food Safety’s Director of Sustainable Agriculture and Senior Scientist. Prior to that, he was a senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union...
View ArticleFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The Conference Awards were all established on the basis of Conference Resolutions, during previous editions of the FAO Conference, the organization’s highest governing body. The very first award...
View ArticleHow a Family Farm Opened a Restaurant and Created its Own Supply Chain
Larissa Zimberoff is a NYC-based writer specializing in food, science and health issues. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Salon,...
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View ArticleSlow Food USA National School Garden Program Monthly Webinars
The National School Garden Program hosts monthly leader calls/webinars to provide our Slow Food chapters and school garden volunteers further support and technical assistance. Our webinars are free and...
View ArticleSugar Rush
Join Jamie in his brand new documentary as he investigates the role sugar is playing in rising global health problems This year my team and I started looking into sugar consumption and what we found...
View ArticleVoices of the Food Chain + StoryCorps: Sharing the Stories of the Workers Who...
Anna Lappé sat in her driveway riveted to her car radio listening to a StoryCorps conversation between two emergency-room doctors. She’d already parked outside her house but couldn’t stop listening....
View ArticleVoices of the Food Chain
Voices of the Food Chain is a project of the Food Chain Workers Alliance and Real Food Media to capture and share stories of the country’s 20 million food workers in their own words. Including voices...
View ArticleSchools Resource Packs
When you subscribe to a Food for Life support package you will receive both a printed resource pack and access to a personalised portal for your school where you'll find a wealth of resources to...
View ArticleMeat tax far less unpalatable than government thinks, research finds
Taxing meat to simultaneously tackle climate change and improve global health would be far less unpalatable than governments think, according to new research. Meat production produces 15% of all...
View ArticlePinnacle Foods to acquire Boulder Brands for $975 million
Boulder Brands and its line of Udi's gluten-free breads, Evol natural frozen foods and Earth Balance oil-based spreads has landed in the hands of the multibillion-dollar maker of Birds Eye frozen...
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