Tag: food

A handful of multibillion-dollar chemical companies have waged war on our bodies and our environment for nearly 70 years without our knowledge...

Our current factory farming model is broken – environmentally, medically and morally.

Foods with unnaturally high levels of sugar and salt keep Americans snacking their way to obesity.

Frugality doesn’t just save money – it helps save the environment, too.

A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: End hunger.

Scientific scrutiny of pesticide residue in food grows; regulatory protections questioned.

Scientific scrutiny of pesticide residue in food grows – regulatory protections are being questioned.

The U.S. food sector depends heavily on immigrant labor and is also the lowest-paid and most exploited one in the nation.

This means that restoring food sovereignty to Native communities requires the re-introduction of indigenous food production, distribution practices and infrastructure, in concert with the re-valuation of traditional ecological knowledge that has long been sidelined from Western notions of science.

The FDA’s lack of urgency dumbfounds food safety scientists.