Guest Author: Lise Nelson, Pennsylvania State University This article previously appeared in The Conversation. It appears here by permission under a Creative Commons license. EDITOR’S […]
There is a meme going around ag circles on social media that claims that Hillary Clinton is trying to tax family farms with an […]
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Guest Author: Gary Frewin Is the practice of organic farming supposed to be about eco-farming at its best or is it supposed to be all […]
Eight years, $3.6 million a year, 40 employees, zero knowledge back. This is the story of GenØk and the politicization of science in Norway. […]
Welcome news from Chipotle. “We just made an announcement internally that we are now going to be offering sick pay and paid vacation time for […]
As part of our series on Culinary Modernism, I’m republishing some older pieces of writing on the theme. This piece previously was published on 9 […]
Planning pesticide application around the arrival of bees for pollination would seem like something that growers and beekeepers should be able to work out among […]
In July of 2013, the environmental news website Grist hired Nathanael Johnson as their new food writer. As a first assignment, Johnson’s editor gave him […]
In the last volume of our Culinary Modernist Reader, we looked at farmers who are practicing sustainable industrial agriculture and showing that it does not […]
As part of our series on Culinary Modernism, I’m republishing some older posts and essays from REALFOOD.ORG. This piece was originally published on My professional […]
Planet Money has an excellent little piece spearheaded by NPR’s ag reporter, the excellent Dan Charles, on the breeding and marketing efforts that went in […]
A few weeks back, Gwyneth Paltrow was challenged by Mario Batali to take the SNAP Challange and attempted to live on a food stamp budget […]
Earlier last month news hit that a Republican state legislator in Missouri had introduced a bill that would limit SNAP (food stamp) recipients from using […]
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Andrea Fonesco CC 3.0 The New York Times reports that the USDA is getting under way with funding for a raft of programs relating to […]
It’s not how much they are spending. It’s how little. Coca-Cola spent $4.8 million through the second quarter of this year; PepsiCo spent $2.34 million; […]
Scientific American: In 2012 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the sale of baby bottles that contain bisphenol A (BPA), a compound frequently […]
photo: Tasso Art | flickr | cc I am opposed to government mandated GMO labels, though I started of in favor of them. In fact […]
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