Best of 2014: Writings on GMOs
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Big Ag and Small Farms: Why We Need Both
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The Low Fruit Has Been Picked. High Impact Crop Breeding is Hard, Arduous Work.
Here’s a big snippet from what I think is the most interesting part of my column today about a Center for Food Safety article on […]
Do Food Hubs warrant a federal subsidy?
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 […]
Asymmetry of Misinformation
Karl Frankowski | Flickr | cc A recent Paul Krugman post describes how critics of Obamacare stay misinformed, not always through incorrect information, but rather […]
Chefs, Breeders, and Dogtown and Z-Boys.
Sarah Laskow has an article in the Atlantic about a chef-led plant breeding movement that setting its eyes on the next horizon: flavor. In the […]
Surprising News on Lobbying Spending by Industry in Labeling Fight
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; […]
Ferguson to NYC: A Fast Food Worker’s Journey for Justice
Local McDonald’s workers felt that it would distract from the focus in their community on the Michael Brown tragedy if they held a strike right […]
Q: What Do Non-pollinating Organic Corn and Arctic Apples Have In Common?
image: slappytheseal | flickr | cc A: It’s easier to change the damn crop than to change people’s thinking. Civil Eats has a story on […]
A Hard Look at Naturally Modified Organisms
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New Member Registrations
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From the Department of “Be Careful What You Wish For”
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 […]
Some Crisp Thinking on Beef Impacts
(photo by Petras Gagilas – flickr – CC) I recently picked a few nits with a post by Jayson Lusk on the environmental impact of […]
The Great Endocrinological Culture Shift
A recent Washington Post article on why it’s harder for women to lose weight underscores the great cultural shift that has taken place in nutrition […]
The Rice Bucket Challenge
Amazing how NOT being a bloated, imperial culture can focus the mind.
This Is Idiotic.
Arby’s Meat Mountain “Sandwich”. Why can’t we get a food culture in this country that isn’t hopelessly precious at one end and completely brain dead […]
Reservations on Subway Workers Organizing
It was great to see the news recently that a group of Subway franchise workers had voted to unionize in New Jersey recently. Workers at […]
Annals of Bad Health Reporting: Local Food and Food borne Illness Edition
A few days ago, a member shared a health column from The Globe and Mail asking the question, “Does eating locally prevent food borne illness?” […]
Kevin Folta’s Reddit AMA on Transgenic Crops
Worth checking out.
Thoughts on Food Banks Refusing Unhealthy Donations
The other day I was asked what I thought about a food pantry refusing donations of unhealthy food. An Ottawa food bank is saying no […]