Urban agriculture can reflect the ways that people across socioeconomic strata react to fresh food access — or lack of it. City spaces can become sustainable communities where food security, nutrition, and income generation are intertwined.
The government has had a hand in marketing the least healthy foods for decades. This pro-GMO program isn’t much different from the USDA checkoff programs that promote meat and dairy to consumers.
For the second time this year, the USDA is buying up excess dairy. How did we get such an abundance of dairy, and why are our tax dollars being used for this AGAIN?
Despite mountains of evidence linking dairy foods to poor health, the USDA is buying a mountain of cheese and giving it to poor people.
Kelley, we have to talk about your new ad campaign for the milk industry!
USDA released its newest set of Dietary Guidelines last month, and the new standards are shamefully incomplete.
McDonald’s recently reassured investors during a conference call that it’s going to address its declining sales by boosting efforts to attract parents, teachers and school children despite national efforts to keep fast food away from children.
Great news: Perdue has stopped its use of antibiotics in chicken hatcheries — the end of a 12-year project to eliminate the use of unnecessary antibiotics.
Farm to table: Chefs flaunt it, and we flock to farmers markets to support our small, local farms. But is it really making a difference for our farmers?
The Energy Department’s methane biogas program has been chugging away in relatively obscurity for several years, and now that’s all about to change. The agency has just teamed up with EPA and the Department of Agriculture to announce a new initiative for ramping up manure-to-biogas at dairy farms and other farming operations, called the Biogas Opportunities Roadmap.
Holy guacamole: this week there’s actually more good news than bad! Such an occurrence is like a rare comet, seen only once in a great while. Don’t miss it — get your (good) food news fix here!
What news have you missed this week? Don’t miss a thing: find the top food news stories here!
This week’s food news will make you cringe and rejoice. New obesity research offers both hope and Western chagrin. Animal ag’s dark footprint puts salmonella on the spice rack, as well as on sandwiches. According to the CDC, we’ve got a bit of a mad cow problem around here — though obviously it’s actually a human problem; more specifically, it’s a wildly dysfunctional food-system problem that we could fix if we chose to do so. Don’t miss the yum or ignore the yuck: read on, for the week’s top news in food!
