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Carson’s claim that ’10 times’ more people are on food stamps since the 1960s
“By the time we got to the ’60s, LBJ was saying, we, the government, are going to eliminate poverty. Now how did that work out? You know, $19 trillion later, 10 times more people on food stamps, more...
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Want to make your farmers market more accessible? Move it
Picture the farmers market. You may think of mounds of garlic cloves still covered in dirt, misshapen tomatoes the size of newborns, and as many canvas tote bags as a public radio convention. What you...
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How an "ugly food" champion is changing the world's food system
Call that carrot what you want: hideous, grotesque, disfigured, deformed. But whatever you do, just don’t throw it out. Tristram Stuart is a giant of the anti-food-waste movement, a figure as...
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Scientist who discovered that GMO's cause tumors wins lawsuit
A court has ruled that French Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini was correct when he concluded that GMO food, when fed to rats, caused serious health problems including tumors. March-against-monsanto.com...
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Tom Colicchio Says Health Issues Due to Poor Nutrition Will Affect Us More...
As we hear the 2016 presidential hopefuls discuss their positions on health care, immigration, and terrorism this primary season, there's one important topic that Tom Colicchio definitely thinks needs...
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In Zika Epidemic, a Warning on Climate Change
The global public health emergency involving deformed babies emerged in 2015, the hottest year in the historical record, with an outbreak in Scientists say it will take them years to figure that out,...
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Antonin Scalia: Looking Backward
Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy....
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Wellness App Aims to Improve Workplace Nutrition
A growing number of companies are offering their employees digital tools to help improve their eating habits in hopes of increasing productivity, reducing sick days and cutting health care costs. With...
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The Man Who Hopes to Turn Acorns into Gold
In Lincoln Smith’s basement, shiny, solid Red Oak acorns dry in racks stacked up to the ceiling. A bucket of Sawtooth acorns—a failed storage attempt—sit next to his refrigerator, the contents chewed...
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Minnesota farmers find going organic no easy task
You might call it the 36-month challenge. That's how long a field must be free of chemicals like synthetic fertilizers and pesticides before the crops grown there can be labeled organic. It can be a...
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On Being Black in the Kitchen
This comes from Versus, our latest issue, now on newsstands. For more great stuff like this, subscribe today. Edouardo Jordan, the thirty-five-year-old chef and owner of the half-year-old Salare in...
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Rockefeller Foundation Puts Money, Muscle Behind Global Food Waste Efforts
Perhaps you weren’t at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month. Maybe the invitation got lost in the mail or your jet was in the shop. If that’s the case, you missed some significant...
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Former NBA star Ray Allen is opening a fast-food restaurant that's unlike...
Allen and his wife, Shannon, are opening an organic fast-food restaurant in Miami called Grown, The Miami Herald reports. It's one of the first organic fast-food chains in the country, and the only...
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What America can learn from the U.K.’s massive sodium experiment
After all this time, why don’t we know for sure whether eating too much [FILL IN THE BLANK] is bad for us? You can fill in that blank with saturated fat, with meat, with cholesterol, and the answer’s...
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Friends of the Earth
Tell your Senators to stand up for GMO labeling! Dial 202-224-3121 to be connected to your Senators. ********************************** Here is a sample script of what to say: Hi, my name is _______...
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Health Canada kept 'predatory' publisher despite warning from government expert
Health Canada kept working with a “predatory” publisher in Croatia — a website publishing shoddy science — even after a Canadian government expert warned them against the practice, the Citizen has...
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Lo Mein Loophole: How U.S. Immigration Law Fueled A Chinese Restaurant Boom
Americans craving kung pao chicken or a good lo mein for dinner have plenty of options: The U.S. is home to more than 40,000 Chinese restaurants. One could think of this proliferation as a promise...
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Searching for Scientific Integrity in the Dietary Guidelines Report Process
Last Friday, on behalf of the Union of Concerned Scientists, I testified at the USDA about the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The USDA invited stakeholders to comment on the process for developing...
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The Human Fingerprints on Coastal Floods
COMMENTARY By Benjamin Strauss There are human fingerprints on thousands of U.S. coastal floods — and countless more the world over. We have known for a long time that sea level is rising. The link to...
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Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries
The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists...
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