Tag: food
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Rep. Pompeo to Introduce Koch-Funded, Monsanto-Backed, Voluntary GMO Food Labeling Bill
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) will introduce legislation this month backed by the Grocery Manufactures Association—including biotech giant Monsanto and Koch Industries—that would establish a voluntary labeling system for food made with genetically modified organisms (GMO), according to an industry insider. [caption id="attachment_329456" align="alignnone" width="500"] “American consumers want the right to know what is in the…
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‘Just Eat It’: Documentary Explores Food Waste From Farm to Fridge
What happens when two filmmakers challenge themselves to survive for six months only on discarded food? You get Just Eat It, a new documentary that explores the food waste issue from the farm all the way to a Vancouver fridge. [caption id="attachment_329377" align="alignnone" width="500"] In Just Eat It, Director and film subject Grant Baldwin found…
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Canadian 10th Grader Discovers Radioactive Imported Seafood Long After Government Stopped Testing
Radioactive seafood isn’t foreign to Canadian grocery stores, but we have no research and development professionals to thank for that information—just a 10th grader from Alberta. Bronwyn Delacruz of Grande Prairie Composite High School in Alberta made her discovery with the help of a $600 Geiger counter her father purchased and the need to complete a science project.…
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Yale Researchers Show Why Choosing a Paleo, Low-Carb or Fat-Free Diet is Not the Healthiest Way to Go
Diets can bring about life-altering changes, but they are also the subjects of never-ending debates. Until now. According to Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and researcher Stephanie Meller, there are no winners in your favorite dietary squabbles. Low-carbohydrate vs. low-fat diets? It doesn’t matter. Going vegan? That’s great, but that doesn’t necessarily mean…
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How Ecological Farming Builds Resilience to Climate Change
Last week, I joined a panel at the Global Agribusiness Forum in São Paolo (Brazil) to talk about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production. You might be surprised that Greenpeace was at an agribusiness conference. The room was full of agri-business people, who are not the crowd we normally engage with; they are…