Tag: food
Trump threatens to veto first-ever congressional action on “forever chemicals”
A handful of multibillion-dollar chemical companies have waged war on our bodies and our environment for nearly 70 years without our knowledge...
If we want antibiotics to work, consumers have to put big...
Our current factory farming model is broken – environmentally, medically and morally.
Food companies intentionally make their products addictive, and it’s making us...
Foods with unnaturally high levels of sugar and salt keep Americans snacking their way to obesity.
Everything I know about a low-waste lifestyle I learned from my...
Frugality doesn’t just save money – it helps save the environment, too.
This city made access to food a right of citizenship
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: End hunger.
Chemicals on our food: When “safe” may not really be safe
Scientific scrutiny of pesticide residue in food grows; regulatory protections questioned.
Chemicals on our food: When ‘safe’ may not really be safe
Scientific scrutiny of pesticide residue in food grows – regulatory protections are being questioned.
From farm to table, women in the US food system are...
The U.S. food sector depends heavily on immigrant labor and is also the lowest-paid and most exploited one in the nation.
On Indigenous People’s Day, a look at the movement to revive...
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.
5 people died from eating lettuce, but Trump’s FDA still won’t...
The FDA’s lack of urgency dumbfounds food safety scientists.
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EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue
The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike
A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage
Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run
DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.