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AFBF chief says low prices mean trying times on the farm
With farm income down sharply since 2013, “farmers are going through a trying time,” said Zippy Duvall, the newly elected president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the largest U.S. farm group....
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15 Essential Tools And Products For Setting Up A Korean Kitchen At Home
While writing Koreatown: A Cookbook, a deep dive into Asia’s most beautifully mysterious cuisine, I was sometimes challenged by language—foreign words like kongnamul muchim don’t quite roll off the...
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Activists press In-N-Out on antibiotic policy amid superbug worries
LOS ANGELES Hamburger chain In-N-Out Burger is the newest target in a push by public health, environmental and consumer groups to convince high-profile food sellers to stop serving meat from animals...
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers
In a powerful evening of reflection and action, students and community members of the central Florida city of Lakeland, Florida — Publix’s corporate hometown and the site of six years’ worth of Fair...
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New CSPI Report Highlights Childhood "Globesity" Crisis, Hits Hard...
As the childhood “Globesity” epidemic continues to make headlines, The Center for the Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) released a new report this week called Carbonating the World, highlighting...
View ArticleNIFA Webinars Slated for New Veterinary Services Grant Program
USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) will host two webinars, Feb. 17 and Feb 25, 1-2:30 p.m. EST to seek public comment and input regarding the new Veterinary Services Grant Program...
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This Netflix Documentary Will Inspire You To Make Dinner
It can seem like no one cooks anymore. Most grocery stores (and even some gas stations) have a wealth of pick-up options for hungry people at the end of a long day of work. Processed meals have made it...
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Solar is so hot right now. Check out the latest numbers
The solar energy industry is absolutely crushing it right now. For the first time ever, more solar power capacity was installed in the U.S. last year than natural-gas capacity. The U.S. solar market...
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The world's first food waste supermarket has opened
A charity has opened Denmark's first ever food surplus supermarket. The store in capital city Copenhagen called Wefood will sell produce at prices 30 to 50 per cent cheaper than normal supermarkets....
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What determines whether people accept climate science? Politics, politics,...
What kind of person doesn’t believe that climate change is a problem? What kind of person does? Behold a new set of answers to this thorny social science question, released earlier this week in the...
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Sanders Opposes Bill to Block GMO Labeling
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 – Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement ahead of the Senate agriculture committee’s hearing on legislation introduced by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) that would block...
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Ruth Reichl on Restaurant Audiences’ Changing Needs and Other Food Issues
Ruth Reichl has a long food history: Gourmet editor in chief, Los Angeles Times and New York Times critic, author of many cookbooks, memoirs, and novels on the subject. As part of her tour behind her...
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A Food Bank Proves A Healthy Mediterranean Diet Is Cheaper Than A Junky...
If you’re holding off switching to a healthy Mediterranean diet because it’s too expensive, then think again, before you drop that hunk of hamburger meat into your shopping cart. A new study out of the...
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European commission plans to relicense controversial weedkiller
The European commission plans to give a new 15-year lease to a controversial weedkiller that was deemed “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for...
View ArticleSenate Bill to Stop GMO Laws Monsanto Opposes, Sanders Likes
Congress may be headed for an election-year decision on whether to help big food companies that don’t want to comply with a new Vermont state law designed to give consumers more information about...
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Judge Rules NYC Can Require Sodium Warnings On Restaurant Menus
The New York State Supreme Court has ruled that chain restaurants in New York City can be fined up to $600 after Mar. 1 for failing to post sodium warnings on certain items on their menus. The ruling...
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GOP targeting SNAP, summer food benefits
GOP targeting SNAP, summer food benefits By Whitney Forman-Cook © Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2016 - USDA officials fielded tough questions from a philosophically...
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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. A new report by researchers at the University of...
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Farming in Snow Country
It takes serious sisu to grow food in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Sisu is a Finnish word—the peninsula has more people of Finnish descent than any place outside Finland—that translates roughly as...
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A Bad Effort in Congress to Thwart States on Food Labels
The Senate could soon join the House to try to make it harder for consumers to know what is in their food by prohibiting state governments from requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods....
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