It is more important than ever before to know exactly where your food comes from. Recently, I have seen news stories investigating false labeling of such common food products as Parmesan cheese, olive oil, Kobe beef, and fish of all kinds, especially sushi. While the...
Conventional industrial meat production is destroying the environment. Feedlots, known in the industry as “concentrated animal feeding operations” or CAFOs, are creating seas of animal waste across the United States. These so-called farms, which exist to fatten up and...
When shopping for the healthiest, cleanest foods, both for our bodies and for the planet, we are often faced with a choice between buying local or buying organic. (Both would be the best of all possible worlds, but local organic food is not as widely available as many...
According to the Environmental Working Group, research has shown that neonicotinoid pesticides are highly toxic to bees and are at least partially responsible for the pollinators dying in record numbers. While researching this article about the importance of...
Pink slime has been in the newspaper lately. A company called Beef Products, Inc. sued ABC News for a series of exposés that the TV station ran on “pink slime.” The lawsuit was settled out of court. What is pink slime and where is it used? The technical term for pink...
