Quantcast
Channel: Food Safety | Grist
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 32 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Don’t look now, but some turkey has antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Not to put a damper on your Thanksgiving or anything, but there are two new studies showing that drug-resistant bugs like MRSA are showing up in farmed meat, including turkey. Farm animals get fed a...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Eating rice raises risk of arsenic exposure

Sometimes it just feels like we should give up eating, particularly if "we" are "pregnant women." A new study links rice consumption with higher levels of arsenic in the bloodstream, which can...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Your mom was right: Don’t eat raw cookie dough

I know, I know, it's so good. But a study of a 2009 E. coli outbreak, led by CDC researchers and state health officials, has traced the contamination back to prepackaged raw cookie dough. Turns out...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The bad food news of 2011

We continue digesting this year’s food politics coverage below — only this time we take account of the things that didn’t go so well. (Tired of bad news? See the year’s good food news instead.) 1....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Fast food chains give up ‘pink slime’ meat product

McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King just stopped using a product popularly known as "pink slime" in their burger meat. The "slime" comes from the tiny bits of beef in leftover fatty trimming. Those...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Scrooged: FDA gives up on antibiotic restrictions in livestock

Most "subtherapeutic" antibiotics are administered to animals on industrial farms via their feed. (Photo by Kerben.) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pulled a Scrooge move just before Christmas....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Will the Butterball raid yield any real results?

The Butterball facility in North Carolina that was raided on Thursday. (Photo by Mercy for Animals.) If turkey were beer, Butterball would have the brand power of Budweiser, Miller, and Coors...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

‘Antibiotic-free’ pork has the same rate of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

We really do try to Pollan it up and do the whole “eat food, not too much, mostly plants” bit. But “mostly plants” obviously means “sometimes bacon.” And maybe the farmers’ market wasn’t open, so we...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Economist uses stale right-wing ideas to attack government regulation

Regulations kill jobs? Yeah, we've heard that one before. Cross-posted from the Center for Progressive Reform. The Economist’s Feb. 18 edition offers a cover package of five articles on...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Dr. Vandana Shiva: Occupy our food supply!

Photo by Ajay Tallam. Today, Feb. 27, is an Occupy Our Food Supply day of action. The following essay is just one of several related posts that will be appearing around the internet to mark the day....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Why less arctic ice means more mercury in your babies

Here is a thing I definitely would not have understood without this animation. Reuters explains the results of this NASA study in words, which aren’t nearly as adequate. [T]hick, perennial Arctic sea...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

School lunches still contain ‘pink slime’

For those among you who really miss the “pink slime” content of McDonald’s hamburgers and Taco Bell’s … everything, you can still get your fix of the ammonia-doused meat product, made of leftover,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Campbell’s to ditch BPA from soup cans

Photo by Antonio. Attention, shoppers: Campbell’s (FINALLY) announced plans to eliminate hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A from the linings of its soup cans. And it only took consumer outrage,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Pig ears and donkey butts: 5 foods that could save the world

Photo by Laura Billings. Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods, eats some pretty strange dishes. Now, he wants you to do the same in the name of saving the world: You can change...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Beekeepers to EPA: We’re running out of time

Beekeepers have seen average population losses of around 30 percent every year since 2006. (Photo by Enrique Lara.) Beekeepers have been concerned that pesticides are to blame for the bee die-offs...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

FDA to GMO labeling campaign: What million signatures?

It hasn’t been a good week for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — if you care about public health. If, however, you think corporate interests and politics should trump science, well, then it’s...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Antibiotics in your meat? The ethanol industry might be partly to blame

Photo by USDA. Last year, while touring a fairly small, pasture-based farmstead cheese company, I found myself in a giant feed barn with a group of curious foodies. It was one of the last stops before...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Peebottle Farms: The dirt on the dirt

Photo by Jonathan Steffens. I’m a phenomenal putter-offer, and getting my backyard soil tested is exactly the kind of chore I am fantastic at avoiding. It is the obvious, responsible thing to do,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Four important food and farm stories you may have missed

1. FDA and antibiotics: If you’re confused, it’s not your fault As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the courts have recently told the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) it has to regulate several commonly...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Where ‘the whole animal’ meets pink slime

Photo by Teresia. A recent New York Times op-ed declared that sustainable meat is a “myth.” Whether pastured, small-scale, large-scale, rotationally grazed, locavore, industrialized, etc., all meat is...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Scientists discover ancient antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Okay, nobody panic, but scientists have found a stash of bacteria that have never had contact with humans, but are resistant to antibiotics anyway. If this happened in a movie, this would probably end...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Paper asks: Does high-fructose corn syrup contribute to a rise in autism?

Photo by Robert Bradley. I know what you’re thinking: “Tom, it’s been ages since you wrote about high-fructose corn syrup.” And you’re right! It has. But as I’m feeling petulantly defiant, I think...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Deadly tree disease could wipe out California’s citrus industry

Photo by Yellow. Cat. Hide ya’ lemons, hide ya’ limes — a deadly disease is coming for California’s citrus trees. State ag experts recently found a tree that tested positive for Huanglongbing–and yes,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Scientists use glow-in-the-dark fish to track hormone-disrupting chemicals

Photo by University of Exeter. Imagine if your body could tell you where and when a certain chemical is impacting your health. Scientists at the University of Exeter have done just that — with...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Ew! Eyeless shrimp and deformed fish now routinely caught in the Gulf

Ok, this is gross. The shrimp coming out of the Gulf of Mexico two years after the BP spill have some seriously nasty stuff wrong with them. They are lacking in eyes. Their gills are full of junked up...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Leaked letters suggest Maryland’s governor is henpecked by the chicken industry

Photo by the Chesapeake Bay Program. The Gulf of Mexico dead zone seems to get all the attention. Yes, the low-oxygen area that forms every year in the waters surrounding the Mississippi Delta is the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Raw deal: Maine residents’ fight for unregulated food draws crackdown

Farmer Dan Brown has been sued by the Maine Dept. of Agriculture for selling raw milk, despite the passage of a food sovereignty ordinance in his town. New England town meetings typically include...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Researchers find link between drug-resistant bladder infections and poultry...

From the Food and Environment Reporting Network: Bladder infections affect 60 percent of all American women, with a rising number resistant to antibiotic treatment. Now researchers looking into the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

You know you want to be Grist’s newest fellow

Are you an early-career journalist, storyteller, or multimedia wizard who digs what we do? Then Grist wants you! We are now accepting applications for the spring 2017 class of the Grist Fellowship...

View Article



After farmed salmon break-out, Washington state says: “Please, go fishing.”

The state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife is urging the public to fish as they would in their wildest dreams — no limits on size or quantity! Last weekend, an unknown number of farmed Atlantic salmon...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 32 View Live




Latest Images