Tag: food

  • A Menu for a Sustainable Food Future

    With the right combination of approaches and unwavering commitment, the world could feed its 9 billion future inhabitants while simultaneously securing economic and social development and protecting the environment. The solutions are there. But governm…

  • Industrial Hemp: The Answer for a Greener Future

    Bringing It Home explores the question of why a crop with so many widespread benefits cannot be farmed in the U.S. by illustrating its history, current industries and talking to both opponents and proponents of the industrial hemp farming legalization …

  • Michael Pollan on the Links Between Biodiversity and Health

    “I think when you bring the concepts of ecology into your body, that’s a revolutionary new paradigm for medicine and for the philosophy of human identity. It breaks down the ‘us and them’ attitude we bring to nature …

  • Fighting Big Food’s Deceptive Marketing Campaign

    It may be unsettling to realize that on grocery store shelves right now are likely hundreds of food products that contain illegal deceptive claims. While the federal government does have specific definitions for some phrases such as “low fat” or “low salt,” otherwise almost anything goes on the front of a food package because the…

  • EU Flags Another Bee-Killing Pesticide While EPA Drags Feet

    While European regulators are taking proactive steps, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is still dragging its feet. And it’s not because the issue is any less dire here in the U.S. Beekeepers continue to report record-breaking losses this year …