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The Soy and Other 'Natural' Food Products in Your Cabinet May Contain a...
All too often it's the companies playing the "natural" card that are doing the most unnatural things to your food.Food purists often fuss about the inadequacies of USDA's organic food standards, how...
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Why You Can Now Kiss Organic Beef, Dairy and Many Vegetables Goodbye
The USDA ruled that farmers are now free to plant GE alfalfa, and USDA won't even keep track of who plants it where. The implications are huge.Monsanto has been trying for years to gain approval for...
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Organic Meat and Dairy Are About to Be History, But There Are Two Ways You...
Even as the Obama administration is starting to look like the Monsanto administration, we can still fight back.The Obama administration struck a blow to freedom in the realms of food and agriculture...
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What Would the World Look Like If We Relied on Industrial Agriculture to Feed...
For the sake of argument let's consider how it might look if industrial agriculture becomes the path humanity chooses to feed itself.The world's population will probably hit 9 billion by 2050. That's...
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Mind-Gut Connection: Why Intestinal Bacteria May Have Important Effects on...
Anybody who's ever "listened to their gut" when making important decisions might be satisfied to learn of the biochemical evidence for the mind/belly connection.Most children seem determined to eat...
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The Sardine's Big Comeback: Why This Lowly Little Fish Should Be at the Top...
Wild seafood is wrought with environmental, ethical, economic, and health implications. But the sardine poses a solution to each of these problems.A seafood meal is the one opportunity most Americans...
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How Seed Banks, Vaults and Exchanges Are Saving Our Food From Disaster
Seeds provide the kind of security to agriculture-oriented people that gold provides to the money-minded.During the Nazi siege of Leningrad, a group of scientists at the world's oldest seed bank...
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Is the USDA's New Symbol of Dietary Correctness a Coup for the Dairy Industry?
While there's some good news when it comes to fruit and vegetables, the new guidelines seem tailored to encourage maximum dairy industry profitability.MyPlate, the USDA's new symbol of dietary...
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Landmark Deal Between Humane Society and Egg Producers: What This Means For...
The former adversaries will jointly seek federal legislation based on their agreement to increase animal welfare standards on egg farms.When news broke on July 7 that United Egg Producers (UEP) had...
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Why All Meat Eaters Should, at Least Once, Kill and Butcher an Animal
How one farmer had to break a no-kill promise to his flock.There's no way around the fact that if you eat meat you have blood on your hands. When I worked on a farm, the long afternoons spent...
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Armed Federal Agents Raid a Health Food Club, Drag Volunteer to Jail
The government is powerless over corporate criminals like Cargill, but is instead cracking down on small businesses selling healthy food to willing consumers.August 3rd was a telling day for the U.S....
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The Paleo Diet: Should You Eat Like a "Caveman?"
An entire subculture is looking at the very, very distant past for a healthier approach to food.The advent of agriculture marked the transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic age, and shifted...
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Why the Food Market Will Be the Next Bubble to Burst
Private investment firms are betting on hunger, and their reasoning, unfortunately, is sound.Residential real estate may be slumping, but ag land is booming. In Iowa, farmland prices have never been...
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Thanks to the FDA, You Really Have No Idea What's In Your Food
An estimated 60 to 70 percent of processed foods contains genetically modified organisms, but unlike 50 other countries, the US doesn't require labeling.For years, polls have shown that about 90...
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The Best, Worst and Most Overlooked Food Stories of 2011
Here's a look at what (sometimes baffling) stories Americans found most compelling and several important ones they missed.Every December for the last nine years, the Hunter PR firm has announced the...
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How Genetically Modified Foods Could Affect Our Health in Unexpected Ways
Yet another reason to test GMOs for safety.Chinese researchers have found small pieces of rice ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the blood and organs of humans who eat rice. The Nanjing University-based team...
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The Dark Side of Chocolate: What Our Love Affair With Cocoa Means for the World
In addition to labor issues, chocolate plantations can be responsible for deforestation. But it can also be empowering to farmers and relatively healthy for the environment.Valentine's Day is the...
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Should Sugar Be Regulated Like a Controlled Substance? Why Some Folks Are...
An opinion piece in the journal Nature suggests ways the government could regulate added sugar, including a sugar tax, distribution controls and age limits.Sugar is a danger to society and should be...
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What You Should Know About the Company Pushing Genetically Engineered Salmon...
If approved AquAdvantage would be the first GE animal greenlighted for human consumption.AquaBounty Technologies, maker of genetically engineered salmon, is almost out of money. It's been more than two...
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Why Hot Dogs, Chicken Nuggets and Some Other "Meats" Are Way Grosser Than...
Processed meats like hot dogs, baloney and chicken nuggets seem, on the surface, no less icky than pink slime. And here's why they could be even worse.If there's one thing America can agree on, it's...
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