Italians Show Energy and Food Can Grow in Harmony
As global food demand rises, so does the controversy of growing crops for biofuels on arable land. But it’s not really as cut and dried as some critics make it out to be. The food versus fuel debate...
View ArticleWhy Food Needs a Plank on Party Platforms
An American election happens about one year from today, and so far the only attention food has received is reports on what the candidates eat. Jeb Bush is paleo (great news, because with his recent...
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A First-Generation Russian Bull Comes of Age
Golden Autumn, Moscow’s annual livestock show, is a glorified petting zoo. Families walk the aisles petting sheep, rabbits, geese, chickens, ferrets, goats, and more. At this year’s fair, the animals...
View ArticleWhen Employees Buy Restaurant Ingredients at Cost, They Get More Than Better...
Sometimes it takes just one person to push an obvious solution to a complex problem. When it comes to getting nutritious food to restaurant-industry workers—the dishwashers and busers most diners never...
View ArticleU.S. Approval of GMO Salmon May Set Precedent
There’s a new fish in town—but not everyone’s ready to make room on their plates for it. Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its first approval for a genetically engineered animal...
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How To Update ‘Harvest of Shame’ for the 21st Century
On the day after Thanksgiving in 1960, Americans met a mother who couldn’t afford milk for her nine children. They met a family of six who were sleeping in the woods, $1.45 to their name, traveling...
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Growth Promoters for Farm Animals: What If They Just Don’t Work?
The practice of giving food animals small doses of antibiotics has been around since at least the 1940s. In the earliest days they were used, these so-called growth promoters conferred huge benefits,...
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Making the Link Between Agriculture, Hunger, and Climate
The CGIAR Consortium may be the biggest international agriculture force you’ve never heard of. It’s publicly funded to the tune of about $1 billion U.S. annually, and plays a major role in agriculture...
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So What Do ‘Natural’ and ‘Healthy’ Really Mean on a Food Label?
It’s a new year, and there’s a new chance to cleanse your cupboards of the junk and focus on food that’s more natural and healthy. The trouble is, when we see those words on food labels, they can be...
View ArticleWhat’s in America’s New Dietary Guidelines—and What’s Not
The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, published in final form today, are less likely to be remembered for what they say than for what they don’t say. As we’ve reported, bitter battles have been...
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Ranching May Offer Soviet ‘Ghost Farms’ of Kazakhstan New Life
On the steppes of northern Kazakhstan, a collective farm town called Chilinka Sovkhoz crumbles, abandoned. The 250,000-acre farm was once home to over 60,000 livestock (mostly sheep, but also cattle...
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Farmers and Producers Not Ready for Big Antibiotic Changes in 2016
The most significant changes in U.S. food-animal production in decades are coming by the end of this year, and farmers and producers aren’t prepared. That’s the warning of the nonpartisan Farm...
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Russians Raise the Steaks By Demanding Blood
On April 23, 2012, the sun dawned on an act of revolution. In the night, someone had hung 240 banners along the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, gateway to Red Square and the Kremlin. Each was printed with...
View ArticleSome Restaurateurs Are Building Better Benefits Into Food Jobs
The eggs and flour at Rose’s Fine Food, a diner on Detroit’s deep east side, are local. The bread and mustard, the donuts and pickles and beets, are all made in-house. The lunch menu offers a $13.75...
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The Surprisingly Big Carbon Shadow Cast By Slender Asparagus
The debate over our diet’s impact on the climate is getting louder. Most of the noise centers around beef, which many calculations put at the top of the impact charts. But conscientious eaters are...
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Rockefeller Foundation Puts Money, Muscle Behind Global Food Waste Efforts
Perhaps you weren’t at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month. Maybe the invitation got lost in the mail or your jet was in the shop. If that’s the case, you missed some significant...
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Should Citrus Farmers Use Antibiotics to Combat Greening Disease?
When you hear about antibiotic use in agriculture, it is almost always about the kind of routine everyday use in livestock that the Food and Drug Administration is trying to eliminate. But there’s...
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Brownies or Blunts, Marijuana Experimentation Is On
Legal marijuana (Cannabis sativa) is one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S., which means that more and more of us are now in a position to get our hands on pot. Now that we’ve got it,...
View ArticleLatest Soda Tax Puts Pressure on Waistlines and the World
When George Osborne, the UK’s finance minister, made his annual budget speech on Wednesday, he surprised many people by announcing that the country would join several other nations attempting to...
View ArticleSteak, Lobster, and Other Myths About Food Stamps
Last month, New York state Senator Patty Ritchie introduced a bill that bans “luxury” foods, such as steak and lobster, as well as junk food like soda, ice cream, candy, cookies, and decorated cakes,...
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