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New Study Finds Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Has Gone Wild, Exposing...
Food for Thought, the CFS Blog News Room Press Releases Blog News "The opposition had Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont and Dow on their side and the largest campaign budget in our county's history, but with...
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Millions of children exposed to junk food adverts during family TV shows
Managing your weight Healthy eating Heart disease is heartless - help us fight back Today we are calling for a ban on all junk food TV advertising before 9pm, as millions of children are being exposed...
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Saudi Arabia is buying up farmland in US Southwest
However, the issue of land rights comes into play. As the owners of the land, the Saudis appear to be playing by the rules. The area of the Arizona desert where the Saudis bought land is a region with...
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Why Corporations Make it Hard to Trust Nutrition Studies
When reports revealed that the Global Energy Balance Network, a nonprofit that used obesity research to stress fitness over healthy eating, was actually quietly funded by Coca-Cola, many people felt...
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Netflix Announces New Michael Pollan Documentary Series, ‘Cooked’
Finally, something you can feel good about binge-watching: Award-winning food writer, author, and documentary filmmaker Michael Pollan is getting his own Netflix docu-series next month. The...
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Bird flu fears halt poultry farming in south-west France
France's foie gras production could run dry this summer after farmers were ordered to stop rearing ducks and geese in the south-west of the country to contain a bird flu outbreak. The highly virulent...
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The Real Problem With Lunch
Houston — THERE’S something about comparing America’s school food to the superior meals in other countries’ schools that we seem to enjoy, in a masochistic sort of way. The latest example is Where to...
View ArticleVolunteer for Sustainable Food This MLK Day
Like many national holidays that were originally envisioned as days of reflection - think of Memorial Day and Veterans Day - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day has become just another day off to many. Back in...
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No food is healthy. Not even kale.
Not long ago, I watched a woman set a carton of Land O’ Lakes Fat-Free Half-and-Half on the conveyor belt at a supermarket. “Can I ask you why you’re buying fat-free half-and-half?” I said....
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Fight brews in Legislature on labeling law for genetically modified foods
AUGUSTA — Supporters of a Maine law that would require labels on foods grown with the use of genetically modified organisms are getting ready for a new fight in the State House. The state crafted a law...
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Cooking Up Change: How Food Helped Fuel The Civil Rights Movement
They looked so young, the four college students who sat down and ordered coffee at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., on Feb. 1, 1960. Previous Next Image by Jack Moebes/CORBIS Previous...
View ArticleA(n Alternative) National Food Policy for the 21st Century
In Oct. 2015, Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, Ricardo Salvador, and Olivier De Schutter, some of the finest food and agriculture writers and activists of our time, put forth a memo to our next president,...
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NHS chief to introduce sugar tax in hospitals to tackle UK obesity crisis
The NHS plans to impose its own sugar tax in hospitals to help tackle the “national sugar high” increasingly ruining people’s health, the service’s boss reveals. Simon Stevens also urged ministers to...
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In Rural Alabama, a Longtime Mistrust of Medicine Fuels a Tuberculosis Outbreak
MARION, Ala. — When Patricia Church, a 41-year-old warehouse worker, felt sick recently, she suspected that she had a cold. But she also feared something more deadly that has been going around this...
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FDA issues warnings to 3 dairy farms, 2 food importers
Three U.S. dairy farms and two food importers were on the receiving end of warning letters recently from the Food and Drug Administration. The warning letters to the dairy farms cited animal drug...
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An organic way to beat the drought
Chinese state run enterprise may join Rosneft Siberian oil project THICK END OF THE WEDGE: Mkhize to thank for Zuma turnaround Court bid to veto Zuma as president could save SA Kariba Dam’s low water...
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Refugee Farmers are Putting Down Roots in North Carolina
The farmers’ market in Carrboro, North Carolina is filled with local staples like lettuce, tomatoes, and eggs. But if you turn left after the welcome booth, you’ll find a table that offers less common...
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Zambia’s ‘No GMO’ stance envy of nations on the globe
EMMANUEL MUTAMBA ZAMBIA’S long held position of ‘No to genetically modified organisms (GMOs)’ is under threat. Zambia’s longstanding ‘No GMO’ position gives the country significant economic advantage....
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What's New in the Dietary Guidelines
Personal HealthJane Brody on health and aging. There’s good news, and not-so-good news for some, in the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, released Jan. 7 by the Agriculture and Health and Human...
View ArticleHonoring a Legacy of Service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Secretary Vilsack thanked the employees of USDA for their work in support of Dr. King’s life and legacy of service to the American people. You can read his...
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