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One drift you don’t want to catch Kurt Michael Friese reports at Civil Eats on Iowa’s Grinnell Heritage Farm, which was nearing organic certification when its fields were contaminated by a crop duster spraying a Monsanto-managed corn field across the road earlier this month.
More than certification at risk Meanwhile, in California, the United Farm Workers [...]

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The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) has recently released an exciting report about a new opportunity for clients of WIC, the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, to use their benefits at farmers’ markets. Back in December of 2007, the USDA published a new WIC food package rule that increased the variety of WIC-approved foods with an increased focus on nutritional quality and expanded cultural food options. State agencies have until October to phase in changes, so the deadline is fast approaching!

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Bottled water offers the illusion of purity, and it’s proven to be a tremendously successful marketing ploy, preying on our fears that our tap water isn’t safe. And, unfortunately, while tap water is, in fact, more strictly regulated than bottled, it’s got its own dirty laundry list of potential contaminants.

We like to think that the lack of clean, safe drinking water is a problem primarily for underdeveloped nations, but we’ve got plenty of water woes right here at home, including (but not limited to): rivers and streams clogged with toxic debris from mountain top mining removal; mercury emissions from coal-powered plants; pesticides, fertilizers, hormones, and antibiotics from industrial agriculture; and the residue of the prescription drugs we gobble like M&M’s to cure all our self-inflicted modern maladies.

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From our friends at Healthy Monday:

American teenagers live a fast paced life surrounded by modern technology. They spend their time talking and texting on cell phones, studying and surfing the web and grabbing fast food while driving between home, work, school and social activities. The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) explains the environmental dangers of [...]

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Food policy destinations, from a distance US Food Policy’s Parke Wilde has put together a top 10 list of the country’s “food policy destinations,” complete with real-life visuals (compliments of Google Earth), giving you a real-life view of the land involved in operations like Smithfield’s Tar Heel plant, as opposed to “the pastoral image that [...]

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