From the monthly archives: July 2010
NRDC filed a lawsuit against the FDA today, pushing the agency to ban BPA in food packaging.
The lawsuit is a follow up to a 2008 petition that the FDA never acted on. Food CEO spoke to some experts from NRDC about the lawsuit:
Continue Reading →How great is this? 82 year old grandmother Jean Hill has been rallying folks in Concord, Massachusetts around an ordinance to ban bottled water sales. According to Food and Water Watch:
Her work has made the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) concerned enough that they are challenging the legality of Hill’s town [...]
Continue Reading →Want to improve your mental health? A new study finds that going vegetarian is one way to do so.
A new study out by researchers from Arizona State University finds that vegetarians have significantly less “negative emotion” than omnivores, according to two different scoring procedures. The study is titled “Vegetarian diets are [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, we talked a little bit about General Mills’ Muir Glen tomatoes ditching the BPA in their cans. It was a little bit unclear as to when these new cans would be available and how to tell which tomatoes were in the new BPA-free cans.
I contacted Muir Glen but hadn’t [...]
Continue Reading →The following is a cross post from Folksy Brews from our newest contributor, Mike Lorey. Mike is an avid home brewer and local food enthusiast, and we’re thrilled to have him on board!
T’ej (Ethiopian-style Honey Wine) is a spontaneously fermented mead. Spontaneous fermentation means that no lab-grown yeast [...]
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