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Most honey isn’t really honey
Chances are, that stuff sittng in the plastic bear in your pantry doesn't technically qualify as honey. The FDA requires honey to have microscopic particles of pollen, which allow the honey to be...
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No Secret Farm Bill and other things to be thankful for
Mark Bittman has provided the ultimate Thanksgiving guide for anyone interested in making our broken food system work again. His exhaustive list of the 25 people or groups for which he is most...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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