Could drinking beer save the Great Barrier Reef?
Could drinking beer save the Great Barrier Reef? The unlikely marriage of hedonism and philanthropy seems quintessentially Australian. But the germ of this fledgling local “good beer movement” began a...
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NO CHILD SHOULD GROW UP HUNGRY IN AMERICA. But 1 in 5 children struggles with hunger. Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign is ending childhood hunger in America by connecting kids in need with...
View ArticleClimate Change Concern Quiz
Take our 3-question quiz to see how your level of concern about climate change compares with people in 40 different nations in our survey. Our “global climate change concern index score” combines...
View ArticleVegetables Under Glass: Greenhouses Could Bring Us Better Winter Produce
Paul Lightfoot, CEO of BrightFarms, in his company's greenhouse in Lower Makefield Township, Pa. Dan Charles/NPR hide caption In America, our food options are remarkably unaffected by the changing...
View ArticleBrunch at Sadelle's Is Perfect, Almost
A staffer in a white deli coat strides through the dining room with an edible delivery. "Hot bagels," he announces. "HOT BAGELS," the staff shouts as a reply. He carries ten of them (perhaps more) on a...
View ArticleWhat Will It Take for Americans to Eat Insects?
Two billion people around the world consume insects on a regular basis, from Mexico and Venezuela to Cambodia, Thailand, and sub-Saharan Africa. For centuries in the Western gastronomic world, the...
View ArticleBrussels Sprouts Caesar Recipe on Food52
Click the heart, it's called favoriting. Favorite the stuff you like. Author Notes: Thinly shaved brussels sprouts have a discernible flavor that stands up to and complements the lemon, garlic, and...
View ArticleHow drones can detect crop problems early to keep farmers on track
The traditional image of a farmer standing in a field, squinting anxiously at the sky for signs of rain, may be about to get a 21st-century makeover as researchers explore the use of drones on farms...
View ArticleEverything You Need for the 2016 Food Lover's Cleanse
We are so excited to be launching the Sixth Annual Food Lover’s Cleanse on January 2. We hope you will join us as we get back in the kitchen, making delicious, satisfying, food with vibrant unprocessed...
View ArticleThis Whole Dinner Would Have Been Thrown Away"€”But Wasn't
For our event with American Express, Rescuing Dinner, we teamed up with Blue Hill Farm to follow the evening’s meal from scraps to the table. Here’s the story. Very rarely do you get to see all the...
View ArticleWhy Engineers Can’t Stop the Enormous Methane Leak Flooding LA
One of the biggest environmental disasters in US history is happening right now, and you’ve probably never heard of it. An enormous amount of harmful methane gas is currently erupting from an energy...
View ArticleNutrition expert accepts $550,000 from Coca-Cola for obesity campaign
A University of Colorado professor who launched a global campaign to fight obesity accepted $550,000 from the Coca-Cola Co., traveled the world at company expense on speaking engagements and solicited...
View ArticleAgriculture is big threat to water quality. These farmers are doing something...
Agriculture, with its fertilizers, has emerged as the biggest threat to water quality in many parts of the US. Some farmers are trying new conservation strategies. Decatur, Ind. — Mike Werling...
View ArticleHershey dumps sugar beets because of GM concerns
Something was different about a lot of the Hershey’s kisses in your stocking this year: The popular chocolates no longer contain sugar made in Minnesota. For decades, the Hershey Co. has used sugar...
View ArticleInfluence of agricultural practice on mobile bla genes: IncI1-bearing CTX-M,...
Generate a file for use with external citation management software. Many calls have been made to address antibiotic resistance in an environmental perspective. With this study, we showed the widespread...
View ArticleIn Defense of Food
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." With that seven-word maxim, US-based journalist Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing...
View ArticleRaw Feta Plant With "Reoccurring Presence" of Listeria Sparks...
The raw milk Feta cheese manufacturing facility known as the Osage Lane Creamery, LTD was subjected to an inspection last spring by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In inspections on May 21 and...
View ArticleMore Poultry Producers Expected to Switch to New Inspection System in 2016
Enlistments in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s New Poultry Inspection System (NPIS) will likely increase in the new year after the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Dec. 21 tossed a legal...
View Article2015 in Review: Animal Antibiotics
It’s difficult to summarize what happened on the animal antibiotics front this year. There were lots of pledges, lots of discussions and lots of reports, but not very many actions. Still, we still...
View ArticleCan Thrive Market be a Kinder, Gentler Amazon for Organic Food?
The founders of Thrive Market say they’ve discovered a way to make organic, natural, and non-GMO foods accessible and affordable for the average American: Sell them through an online shopping club, at...
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