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Men think they need to eat meat to be manly—and it’s making them sick
Shortly after I became engaged, my family members began to worry aloud about the health of my future husband. You see, my fiancé Ray is a man—and he’s about to marry a pescatarian. While it’s true that...
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School Food Lessons We Should Learn From Chipotle
The Boulder Valley School District in Colorado, where I am director of food services, is building a central kitchen, which will eventually cook upwards of 20,000 meals per day for our students, faculty...
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Organic food sales surge to hit almost £2bn
UK shoppers spent an extra £1.73m on organic products last year, as the nation’s appetite for the niche food sector grew for the third year in a row and returned to pre-crisis peaks. The market for...
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EU told ExxonMobil that TTIP would aid global expansion, documents reveal
The European Union’s trade commissioner told the multinational oil company ExxonMobil that a major free trade deal being negotiated with the US would help remove obstacles to fossil fuel development in...
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A New Study Suggests Even the Toughest Pesticide Regulations Aren’t Nearly...
California officials have long touted their pesticide regulations as the toughest in the nation. But a new report from the University of California, Los Angeles, reveals a major flaw in the state’s...
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This is the height of laziness
Few things are as painless to prepare as cereal. Making it requires little more than pouring something (a cereal of your choice) into a bowl and then pouring something else (a milk of your choice) into...
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Los Angeles: City of Breakfast
LOS ANGELES — One thing becomes clear when you go out for breakfast here, whether you join the hordes waiting in line at Sqirl, République and Eggslut, or linger among the regulars sipping cold brew...
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'Save The Fleet, Eat Less Wheat': The Patriotic History Of Ditching Bread
Finding bread alternatives may seem like a thoroughly modern obsession. (Can someone pass the chia-millet rolls?) But the widespread search for substitutes to white flour, in particular, dates back at...
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Salmonella outbreak linked to Kansas sprouts reaches Pennsylvania
A Salmonella Muenchen outbreak linked to fresh alfalfa sprouts from a Kansas grower now includes 13 people from four states, spurring federal officials to join the investigation. Five of the sick...
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Working hand-in-hand with county leaders to build a brighter future for rural...
Summary: Today, the Administration announced new efforts to build on ongoing progress to combat rural child poverty. Between 2012 and 2014, child poverty fell further than it had since 2000, indicating...
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A Town Demands Protection from Pesticides
Almost a year ago, National Geographic told the story of Aixa, now eight years old, who lives in Avia Terai, a town in Argentina surrounded by soybeans and other crops treated with pesticides. Included...
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Rubio turns energy policy over to oilman donor, doesn’t even blush
As political mega-donors all know, you get what you pay for. Still, the friendly policy treatment that rich individuals and their corporate interests receive in exchange for campaign donations is...
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Climate change is already causing dramatic flooding in the coastal U.S.
Here’s the latest news on sea-level rise: The oceans are rising faster than they have in the last 2,800 years, thanks to a combination of heat expansion and melting ice sheets. Total sea-level rise...
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Seize the Morning: The Case for Breakfast
I used to work nights. You can draw that card at a newspaper, same as you might in a hospital or police station, in a factory or a financial house doing business in markets that hum while the rest of...
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Farm Bureau: TPP Will Boost Farm Exports, Income
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 23, 2016 – The Trans-Pacific Partnership will tear down trade barriers and help level the playing field for U.S. agricultural exports to 11 nations across the Pacific Rim....
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Alabama Fast Food Workers Rally To Defend City's Wage Hike
A coalition of fast food workers, clergy and advocates rallied at the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., today as a fight escalated in the state over a proposed minimum wage. Alabama has no minimum...
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CRISPR and the Monsanto Problem (GMO, be some other name!)
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a GMO. What’s GMO? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! If gene...
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More E. coli victims identified in California raw milk outbreak
California officials say the case count in the E. coli outbreak linked to unpasteurized raw milk from an organic dairy in Fresno is increasing, but they aren’t saying much else. As of Monday, 10 people...
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Pesticide Combination Impacts Often Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts, New...
Most scientists, farmers, and regulators usually consider the health effects of pesticides one at a time. But that’s not always how they’re used. “We know these are being applied on purpose together,”...
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Ahold USA announces goal of 100% cage-free eggs for private label by 2022
"Animal welfare is a fundamental part of our responsible retailing program," said Marissa Nelson, senior vice president of responsible retailing and healthy living, Ahold USA. "We believe that...
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