Yes! The Spring issue of Yes! magazine is entirely devoted to food and mentions the Eat Well Guide. Thank you, Yes!
Failure to yield That’s the name of a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists on yield increases in Bt cotton and corn, which Elanor at The Ethicurean calls “stunningly lame.” Meanwhile, NPR reports that the so-called Green Revolution has resulted, for India, in an agriculture system that is unprofitable, unsustainable and on the brink of collapse.
Plastic making kids fat? Researchers from Mount Sinai Medical Center have found a link between plastics and childhood obesity. In a study of 400 young girls, levels of phthalates (an endocrine-disruptor found in many types of plastic) in urine corresponded directly with weight, meaning that the girls with the highest levels of phthalates were also the heaviest.
Gendreck veg, for real Germany has banned the selling and planting of Monsanto’s Bt corn. German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner made the announcement this week, saying that she had legitimate reasons to believe MON 810 could put the environment at risk.
Faces of a grass-fed movement The Ethicurean’s Bonnie Powell and her husband Bart have put together a fantastic slide show of attendees of last year’s Food & Society conference.
Au contrarian Livable Future blog responds to an op-ed from last Friday’s NY Times, where one James McWilliams paints free-range pork as more likely than its pent-up counterpart to harbor trichinosis, pointing out what he fails to mention — namely, that the study he cites was sponsored by the National Pork Board and that the hogs didn’t test positive for trichinosis, but for antibodies against it.
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