Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future National Survey Commissioned by Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Finds Americans Prioritize Sustainability of Healthy Foods Over Cost and Industry Impact A national survey of 800 Americans shows that 74 percent of adults believe the newly released Dietary Guidelines should include environmental provisions and support sustainable… Read more »
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Non-profit Decodes the Sticky Mess in the Yogurt Wars Between Chobani, Yoplait, and Dannon
Report Helps Identify Which Yogurts are Health Food Versus Junk Food A report, Culture Wars: How the Food Giants Turned Yogurt, a Health Food, into Junk Food, issued by The Cornucopia Institute, accuses Dannon, Yoplait, Chobani, and other major marketers of misleading parents, who are looking for healthier foods for their families, into purchasing yogurts loaded… Read more »
Release: NSAC Comments on Produce Rule
NSAC’s Blog Source: USDA Final Produce Rule Retains Improvements, but Implementation Strategies Surrounding Inspections and Audits Raise Significant Questions and Concerns Washington, DC, November 13, 2015 – Today, FDA released the much-anticipated final rule detailing preventive standards for farms that grow, harvest, pack, or hold covered produce for human consumption. Once officially published in the… Read more »
Farmer Links Dead Calves and Tainted Silage to Pesticide Drift
The Community Word by Clare Howard Source: Chauncey Davis After 40 years of farming in rural Princeton, Dan Schafer is between a rock and a hard place, grappling with a problem that could threaten his livelihood and the safety of the public food supply. He told his long-time buyer Tyson what happened to his registered… Read more »
Tanya Fields is Tackling Racial & Social Injustice with Urban Farming
Madame Noire by Rachael Devaney For Tanya Fields, urban farming has become the most effective tool to tackle racial, social and economic justice. Tired of the lack of affordable, healthy food in her South Bronx neighborhood, Tanya Fields, executive director of the BLK Projek, recently built Libertad Urban Farm, a 4,500 square foot farm located at… Read more »
100+ Businesses Urge Obama Administration to Suspend Bee-Toxic Pesticides
Beyond Pesticides Source: John Bennett More than 100 businesses, including Clif Bar, Nature’s Path, Organic Valley and Stonyfield, sent a letter to the White House yesterday urging it to immediately suspend pesticides linked to global bee declines in order to protect the nation’s food supply, environment and economy. The businesses, members of the American Sustainable… Read more »
10 Best: Places to Dine Down on the Farm
USA Today by Larry Bleiberg Source: Ralph Daily With farm-to-table restaurants booming in popularity, farms themselves are now getting in on the act, offering meals to diners craving super-fresh cuisine that’s often raised on site. “The producers are honoring the ground, presenting the fruits of their labor in a fun and delicious fashion,” says Matt Jones of Slow… Read more »
Open-Sourcing Chicken: Breaking Free from Corporate Genetics
National Geographic by Maryn McKenna By now, I suspect, most people concerned with the provenance of meat have a clear mental image of what concentrated production looks like. Take chicken, the meat we Americans eat more than any other: industrial chicken lives out its life in walled houses with tens of thousands of other birds,… Read more »
Carrageenan: Risks and Reality
This article includes excerpts from the report: Carrageenan: How a Natural Food Additive is Making Us Sick. Read the report and the rest of Cornucopia’s work investigating this controversial ingredient. If it’s in our food, it must be safe to eat, right? We can say that about countless ingredients that have been proven to be… Read more »
Your Certified Organic Beer Just Got More Organic
Changes in the way hops are grown has led the USDA to rewrite the rules. TakePart.com By Twilight Greenaway Organic hops used to be a rare crop. So rare, in fact, that the rule makers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture decided in 2007 that organic hops weren’t necessary to make certified organic beer. Now,… Read more »
