Good Food is Everybody's Business
We thought this video was so special that we wanted to share it with our readers. Liza de Guia, at Food Curated, recorded Phil Karlin, founder and commercial fisherman behind PE & DD Seafood in Riverhead, Long Island, NY, talking about his a small, family-owned commercial fishing operation.
Even though scientists have shown that alfalfa “is equipped to invade and dominate unmanaged habitats,” the USDA is recommending deregulation of Roundup Ready (RR) alfalfa. The EIS evaluating potential environmental effects of deregulation will be published for public review on December 23.
What in American society has changed so dramatically that nearly 60 percent of us are now overweight, plunging the nation into what the surgeon general calls an “epidemic of obesity”? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life – class, politics, culture, and economics – to show how we have made ourselves the second fattest people on the planet (after South Sea Islanders).
We’ve all heard about the evils of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) – its the cause of Type 2 diabetes and nearly everything else bad like obesity. But what’s the real story…? Todd Kueny, who blogs at Just Got Lucky, fills us in on the details.
The Neil Jones Food Company (NJFC) is proud to introduce six new organic tomato products which have been Food Alliance Certified. These canned tomato products are the first to bear the Food Alliance seal of approval.
Washington leads the nation in organic apple, pear and cherry acreage, primarily in the central, irrigated regions of the state. For the first time in several years, however, organic acres for apples and cherries declined in 2010.
In spite of the sluggish economic recovery, U.S. families continue to buy more organic products than ever before and from a wider variety of categories, according to findings from the latest consumer study jointly sponsored by the Organic Trade Association (OTA) and KIWI Magazine.
The Humane Society of the United States has released findings from an undercover investigation that documented the inhumane treatment of female breeding pigs and piglets at a Virginia factory farm owned by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer. The investigation is the latest examination by The HSUS into the operations of the nation’s top animal agribusinesses.
