Is Cooking Really Cheaper Than Fast Food?
You can walk into any McDonald's in America and buy a bounty of ready-to-eat calories for just a few bucks. But can you cook much better food for yourself for even cheaper? That's the message of Slow...
View ArticleObama's Broken Promise on GMO Food Labeling
Back in 2007, a presidential candidate named Barack Obama declared that foods that include ingredients from genetically modified crops should be labeled. As president, he vowed, he would strive to "let...
View ArticleMeet The Child Workers Who Pick Your Food
Agriculture tends to cling to certain practices long after the rest of society has discarded them as morally repugnant.You might think slavery ended after the Civil War, yet it exists to this day in...
View ArticleIs China Rethinking its Embrace of US-Style Agriculture?
Given China's vast and growing population and increasing appetite for meat, it's no surprise the nation's leaders have been scrambling for years to intensify food production along the US model. Lately,...
View ArticleMatt Yglesias Just Doesn't Get the Farm Lobby
Mulling the Occupy Wall Street protests, political blogger Matt Yglesias poses the question, "Do 'Large' Corporations Have Disproportionate Political Clout?" His answer? Not really:I actually think it...
View ArticleFour Reasons for Foodies to Occupy Wall Street
For my regular readers who may have missed it, I had a longer piece on this website's "Environment" channel laying out four main reasons that the Occupy Wall Street protests should focus on Big Food as...
View ArticleIs the FDA Overhyping the Safety of Gulf Seafood?
Is Gulf seafood safe to eat in the wake of BP's massive oil spill last year? Absolutely, insists the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which oversees the safety of the food supply.But a recent study...
View Article'Superweeds' Revive an Old, Highly Toxic Herbicide
Ecologists call it the "pesticide treadmill": pests like weeds and bugs evolve to resist the poisons designed to destroy them, forcing farmers to apply ever-higher doses or resort to novel poisons.But...
View ArticleWhy Freakonomics Is Wrong About Cantaloupes
Federal investigators have traced the source of listeria-tainted cantaloupes, which have killed 25 people and sickened 123, to a single farm in Colorado. Holly, Colorado-based Jensen Farms grows,...
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