Tag: food

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.

Measure 103 was reportedly proposed to counter efforts to raise corporate taxes at the state level, such as 2016's Measure 97, which voters rejected.

1.6 billion tons of food worth around $1.2 trillion are lost or wasted every year and the problem is only getting worse.

This commitment will spare millions of egg-laying hens a life of extreme confinement in battery cages so small that the birds can barely move or stretch their wings.

There seems to be no corporate recognition of the shameful act of taking decades of societal largesse and then doing everything possible to avoid paying for any of it.