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Please enjoy this final Food News Feed here at The Green Fork and remember to come back Monday to check out our new blog, Ecocentric, where (spoiler alert!) in addition to daily features, we will be feeding you news briefs about food, water and energy throughout the day, instead of just once a week.   Thanks [...]

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Mmm…Chicken  Among the mind-bogglingly creepy things that find their way into the feed of industrial livestock is arsenic.  The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Center for Food Safety are among a broad coalition of food and farm groups calling on the FDA to ban arsenic-containing additives from chicken feed.  You can join [...]

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Troubled Water BP’s massive oil spill has prompted US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to declare a fishery disaster  in the Gulf of Mexico.
Organic for the Birds? Word on the street is that birds prefer “conventional” seed, but hamsters like organic food and pesticides are linked to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in small [...]

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Brooklyn Grange Roots Down — in Queens An ambitious group of hipsters agrarians from Brooklyn, including ex-Gracer Gwen Schantz, have found a home for their farm in a one-acre rooftop in Long Island City.  You can donate to the project at Kickstarter.
Highway to the Safety Zone Yesterday, the USDA’s new rolling food safety project, the [...]

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While the sustainable production of biofuels may be possible under rigorous best practices and limited production scenarios, it’s impossible for biofuels to live up to broad energy independence and economic revitalization goals without causing serious environmental problems. The rational behind touting biofuels as a silver bullet solution – farm lobbying and subsidy largesse aside – is one of “petroleum replacement.”

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