Food & Nutrition

Subsections:

2009

Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger

: Ten Things

Eat less meat, conserve energy, buy fair-trade products, support sustainable agriculture, advocate for food security as a human right...
Michelle Obama's Fresh Food Revolution

Mark Hertsgaard : Environment

The First Lady hopes to entice Americans away from their junk food past to a healthier, more delicious future.
We Need a Department of Homegrown Security

Chip Ward : Agriculture

Drop the scary Bush lingo and start creating resilient communities than can effectively recover from disaster in this age of financial and climate chaos.
The Food Lobby Goes to School

American News Project

A look inside the backrooms of the capital, where the interests of American children intersect with the lobbyists for multinational food companies.

Milk Scandal Taints China's Self-Image

Anna Greenspan : China

The tainted milk crisis could prod China to act responsibly.
Toxic Loans, Tainted Food

David E. Gumpert : U.S. Economy

As financial markets reel from the US financial crisis and tainted Chinese dairy products are sold around the world, we're learning hard lessons on the limits of globalization.
Slow Food for Thought

Eric Schlosser : Agriculture

Affluent foodies embrace sustainable agriculture, oblivious that ordinary people--especially the poor--don't have a seat at the table.
Burgers or Biofuel?

Frances Cerra Whittelsey : Environment

Biofuels have become the new villain in the climate change and food crisis debate. But America's consumption of meat is a bigger part of the problem than the cars and trucks we drive.
Drawing Your Last Breath Hungry

Allan Nairn : Myanmar (Burma)

We can blame the Burmese government for the unfolding tragedy in the wake of the cyclone. We can also blame ourselves.
Got Milk? Get Investigated

David E. Gumpert : Civil Rights & Liberties

State and federal authorities are relying on undercover agents to entrap dairy farmers.
Milk Wars

David E. Gumpert : Agriculture

As struggling dairy farmers seek profits by responding to rising consumer demand for raw milk, regulators are taking a hard line.

USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program

David E. Gumpert & William Pentland : Agriculture

A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.
Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing

Nevin Cohen : Agriculture

There is an alternative to unhealthy eating and irresponsible development schemes.
Luxury Grub

Barbara Ehrenreich : Gap Between Wealth & Poverty

What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.
Old McDonald Had a Farm...and He Got Arrested?

David E. Gumpert : Agriculture

As consumers increasingly seek out farmers who raise organic and unpasteurized food, suddenly energized regulators claim they want to "protect" us from pathogens and other dangers. What gives?
Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats

Matthew Blake : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability

America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.
The Hundred-Mile Diet

Christopher Ketcham : Agriculture

A new way to fight global warming and corporate agriculture: Eat only locally grown food, and call yourself a localvore.