Entries Tagged as 'food news'
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.
[Read more →]
Tags: Uncategorized · food news
Shane Crary-Ross spent her childhood summers at farm camp, where her favorite activities were cow milking and bread baking. These days, she studies economics and social work at New York University, and spends her free time gardening, bicycling, and reading science fiction.
Last semester, while researching the National School Lunch Program, I found myself in the [...]
[Read more →]
Tags: food news
Because I didn’t manage to post the News Feed last week, enjoy an extra dose of food news this weekend, some of it a bit fresher than others.
$20 billion food security initiative announced at G8 World leaders dug a little deeper than expected today, pledging an extra $5 billion in food aid to poor countries. [...]
[Read more →]
Tags: Uncategorized · food news · news feed
Time to change kids’ lunch This week, Slow Food USA launched its Time for Lunch campaign. They’re gathering signatures to show support for prioritizing “real food” in reauthorization of the upcoming Child Nutrition Act, which funds school lunch (and breakfast) programs nationwide. Reauthorization by Congress is slated for September and Slow Food is organizing a [...]
[Read more →]
Tags: food news
Originally published on the Huffington Post. The Larry Pope (CEO of Smithfield Foods) interview can also be found on CNBC.com.
As I wrote earlier this week, the virus formerly known as the swine flu (although the CDC continues to say that indeed the H1N1 strain does, as initially reported, contain swine, human and avian [...]
[Read more →]
Tags: Uncategorized · food news
