Growing interest in food distribution centers

2016

How supermarket signs can be misleading

Italy's plan to cut food waste

Obama surrenders to GMO lobby

North Dakota rejects corporate farming

The revival of black farming

Glyphosate found in 93% of tested urine

A half million to be denied by food thanks to cruel time limit

Global fish stocks collapsing

France makes supermarkets give unused products to food banks rather than trashing it

Lettuce can be harder on environment than some meat

Study questions junk food role in obesity

What the media didn't tell you about eating meat

This column is gluten free

Netherlands bans Roundup

Water thieves crop up in California

France approves law to reduce waste food

World Trade Organization gives a hint of what's in store from TPP

MIT comes up with solar desalination machine

The interesting history of farm CSAs

How TPP could damage your health

Vegetarians don't stick with it

Zoning for urban agriculture

2014

Study finds carbs worse than high fat

Most vegetarians give it up

World Trade Organization rules against source of meat labelling requirements

Why natural foods may not be natural

Beef production far more damaging to environment than other livestock

Indoor farms can work

Climate putting corn in trouble

Good news on the cheese front

Obama's war on cheese

Farm to prison table

Food prices driving global unrest

Appeals court okays labelling meat by country of origin

The rise of food gentrification

Study: Pesticides hurting French sperm

How dirt can be healthy

Food stamps BACK TO TOP Obama sells out on food stamps What food stamps have really done Cutting food stamps is not only cruel, it will cost more money Food stamps reduce extreme poverty Urban farming BACK TO TOP 2015 The future of vertical farming 2014 Urban food in Boston Urban farming grows in Latin America How urban gardens can be better than many real fields The rise of vertical farming The world's largest roof top farm All about vertical farming 2013 Urban farm ideas from NYC Urban agriculture spreading Urban agriculture in Los Angeles Hidden benefits of community gardens Problems with vertical farming Three examples of urban agriculture First vertical farm opens in Singapore 2012 URBAN FARMING GROWS INTO A BUSINESS Organic food BACK TO TOP 2016 Organic agriculture boosts local economies Organic food currently accounts for about 5 percent of all food sales in the U.S., but organic farming acres make up less than one percent of total U.S. farmland. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture figures, there were a record number of certified organic operations — 19,474 — In the U.S. in 2014. OTA reported that there were another 3,000 farms transitioning to organic. 2015 How to tell if the food you're buying is organic Organic farms booming around the globe 2014 Organic food status Gallup: 45% seek organic foods Sales of organically farmed food jumped nearly 84% in 2012 from 2007 Creative organic gardens around the world Is the Agriculture Department this scared of organic farmers? Organic farms growing fast 2013 Organic food shortage Largest wholesale distributor of organic and natural food under invesigation for violation of labor laws Organic farming growing worldwide 2012 The part of the organic food study that the media ignored BRITISH STUDY OF ORGANIC FOOD COMES UNDER FIRE BRITISH GOVERNMENT STUDY FINDS ORGANIC ITEMS NO BETTER THAN ORDINARY FOOD ORGANIC FARMLAND UP 118% SINCE 2000

2013

Consumer Reports finds 97% of chicken breasts contaminated

Connecticut becomes first state to require lableling of GMO food

A bag to cook in

Interest growing in micro gardening

Foods sold in America that are banned in other countries

Oregon banning some pesticides

America's war on aspargus farmers

Food practices banned in Europe but just fine here

Aging farmers dramatically changing the ecoomics of farmland

FDA war on manure threatens America's small farms

America's war on aspargus farmers

Farmers want government to suspend ethanol gas requirement

State by state review of war on factory farming whistleblowers

 

Eden Foods: Organic food, anti-women politics

Unsustainable agruculture growth biggest threat to biodiversity

Why is lettuce so complicated?

Rampant seafood fraud found

Chain Restaurants Boost Sales With Lower-Calorie Foods

Pressure to end corn ethanol mandate

Corporate takover of urban farming?

Burger King in UK admits using horse meat

Whole Foods faces backlash over CEO's attack on Obamacare

2012...

Global crop production stagnating in some areas

Study links pesticides used by sheep farmers to long-term brain damage

Idea Mill: Bread that can stay fresh for 60 days

Food Bank Stocks Dry Up in Wake of Great Drought

Orlando backs off of anti-front yard gardening rule

The economics of your Thanksgiving dinner

Global land seized could feed nearly a billion people

UN warns of major hunger crisis next year

Kids and food

Man wins $7 million in popcorn case

Alaskan King salmon are disappearing

Burger King to go cage free for pork and eggs

FDA rules "high fructose corn syrup" can't change its name to "corn sugar"

• Bloomberg wants to ban big sugary drinks

Super weeds threasten food production

Bill Gates knows as little about farming as he does about education

Iowa beats Canada in grain production, challenges China in soybeans

HOW COUNTRIES LOSE CONTROL OF THEIR FOOD

USDA Testing Finds 34 Unapproved Pesticides on Cilantro

One bad harvest away from chaos

RUSSIA BANS GRAIN EXPORTS

LEAD FOUND IN KIDS DRINKS AND SNACKS

CONSERVATION SAVING NORTH SEA COD

GRAIN FOR U.S. ETHANOL COULD FEED 300 MILLION FOR A YEAR

AMERICANS WASTE 40% OF THEIR FOOD

PLASTIC BECOMES FARM PROBLEM

PEAK FOOD FOLLOWS PEAK OIL

EVEN BEER THREATENED BY CLIMATE CHANGE

RICHER COUNTRIES RIPPING OFF POOR NATION'S FARMLAND

BILLION TO GO HUNGRY in 2010

GETTING THE POOR INTO COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE

FOOD SHORTAGES THREATEN TO BRING DOWN COUNTRIES

SUPER WEED THREATENS SOUTHERN CROPLAND

SOUTH AFRICAN FARMERS LOSE MILLIONS AS GM CORN CROP FAILS TO PRODUCE SEEDS

ENERGY SECRETARY CHU WARNS CALIFORNIA OF AGRI-CRISIS

SEEDING NEW GROCERY STORES

FDA APPROVES IRRADIATION OF LETTUCE & SPINACH

STUDY: HALF OF ALL FOOD IS WASTED

WORLD LEADERS DISCUSS GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS OVER GOURMET MEALS

AID GROUP SAYS IT WILL HAVE TO CUT FOOD TO 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE

ECOLOGY CONCERNS DRAW ATTENTION TO FOOD SHIPPING TRADITIONS

AGRIBUSINESS MAKING HUGE PROFITS OUT OF FOOD CRISIS

HUNGER CAUSES RISING ANGER AROUND THE WORLD

FOOD DISTANCE NOT AS BIG A FACTOR AS THOUGHT

BRITISH STUDY SAYS FOOD ADDITIVES HURT CHILDREN'S INTELLIGENCE

BIOFUELS FUEL FOOD GLOBAL FOOD DISASTER

HUGE FOOD SHORTAGE IN MUCH OF WORLD

FUEL AND LOCAL FOOD: SOME FACTS

MIDWEST AGRICULTURE BIG CONTRIBUTOR TO GULF DEAD ZONE

RISING CARBON DIOXIDE MAY HURT NUTRITION IN MAJOR CROPS

THE EARTH'S DISAPPEARING TOPSOIL

STUDY FINDS SOY CUTS SPERM COUNT

WASTED FOOD A BIG ECOLOGICAL NEGATIVE

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Local food BACK TO TOP 90% of Americans live near local food States that best support local food Food stats BACK TO TOP 2015 ECO WATCH Who grows our food Forty maps that explain food in America World hunger down Somewhere around 1.1 billion acres is being cultivated for food in or within about 12 miles (20 kilometers) of cities. Most of that land is on the periphery of cities, but 16.6 percent of these urban farms are in open spaces within the municipal core. VOX American farmland decreasing at rapid rate Sales of organically farmed food jumped nearly 84% in 2012 from 2007 In 2012, the average age of principal farm operators was 58.3, up 1.2 years since 2007, with 257,697 farmers 75 or older in 2012, compared to 243,472 in 2007, according to a preliminary report from the Department of Agriculture's Census of Agriculture, taken every five years. The number of principal farm operators 65 to 74 rose from 412,182 to 443,558, and from 55 to 64 from 596,306 to 608,060, while numbers of those 45-54 dropped by nearly 100,000, and those 35-44 by more than 50,000, continuing a 30-year trend of aging farmers. 2013 Harvard study says 25,000 Americans may die because of sodas and sugary drinks Study Finds 80% of All Antibiotics in US Used for Big-Ag 2012 Number of farmers' markets more than quadruple since 1994 Corn prices at record high Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that meat eating across the country fell from the 2004 high point of 184 pounds per person to 171 pounds in 2011. Early estimates for 2012 project a further reduction in American meat eating to 166 pounds, making for a 10 percent drop over the eight-year period.- Earth Policy Institute 2011 A Vanity Fair poll finds that 73% of conservatives and 75% of liberals either make buying local food a priority or do it when it is convenient. Another issue that the media ignores, but people find important. We suspect the results would be even better if local food was idenitified better. Genetically modified crops BACK TO TOP While the acreage of genetically modified crops declined in 2015, the NY Times reports that "Three countries — the United States, Brazil and Argentina — account for more than three-quarters of the total global acreage. And only four crops — corn, soybeans, cotton and canola — account for the majority of biotechnology use in agriculture. In many cases, more than 90 percent of those four crops grown in those three countries, and in other large growers like Canada, India and China, is already genetically modified, leaving little room for expansion." 2016 A history of Monsanto Myths about genetic engineeering Some farmers winning against GMO California takes on Monsanto over cancer FDA approves first gentically engineered creature for eating 2015 EPA's fraudulent approval of Roundup Poland becomes 14th European country to ban GMOs Is the USDA rigging science in favor of Monsanto? Study: Monsanto helped kill the monarch butterfly Farmers turn away from Monsanto MIT scholar warns of greatly increased autism in children due to GMO Russia has ban on imports of GMOs 2014 Study finds GMOs contaminate corn up to 2.8 miles away McDonald's Rejects GMO Potatoes Mexican judge cancels Monsanto planting permit The ghosts in the GMO machine Study find cancer jump near fields of GM crops HRC backs GMO Fish & Wildlife Service to phase out use of genetically modified crops Brazil farmers say GMO crops no longer resistant to disease China cracks down on GMO crops If GMO products are so safe and good, why are four organizations suing Vermont to prevent labelling food as having GMO ingredients? Oregon moving to map GMO cropland Chances are your vegatable oil is genetically modified Two largest grocery chains won't sell GMO salmon French government bans GMO corn Worms now eat corn genetically modified to poison them Study: the prevalence of Roundup herbicide Chinese don't like Monsanto Some farmers turning away from GMO crops 2013 The Supreme Court's Monsanto ruling Girl Scouts take on GMO cookies Major food producers pulling out of GMOs - but only in Europe Europe wins against Monsanto Monsanto's ties to Blackwater Monsanto sprays own workers Pigs eating only GM grain have higher stomach inflammation Monsanto gives up on Europe 16 Of the 22 Monsanto lobbyists have held government jobs, including the current FDA chief of foods The Monsanto "We increase food" myth Things to do about Monsanto Food brands using Monsanto seeds Monsanto trying to stop states from requiring labelling Obama signs Monsanto protection act Study: Roundup linked to major health problems Some grocery stores join fight against GM food How Monsanto is ripping off farmers 2012 Poland Bans Genetically Modified Corn, Potatoes Monsanto Gets Its Way in Ag Bill DOJ Mysteriously Quits Monsanto Antitrust Investigation Kenya bans Imports of GM Food Peru bans GMO ingredients 30 states consider GMO labelling issue Study: GMO crops increase pesticide use California voters strongly support labelling GMO food An analysis of the GMO/rat controversy Some scientists question GMO rat study New study zaps Monsanto GM corn France to maintain ban on genetically modified crops French court finds Monsanto guilty in chemical poisoning case Wikileaks: US diplomats shilled for Monsanto & Dupont to push GM crops INDIA DELAYS INTRODUCTION OF GM FOOD DUE TO SAFETY CONCERNS SAFETY OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS GMO PRODUCERS PROHIBIT RESEARCH ON THEIR PLANTS MONSANTO GOES AFTER FARMERS FOR ACTING LIKE FARMERS