food
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Don't dam Atlantic fisheries to extinction
Removing abandoned river dams across the Northeast will revive Atlantic fisheries, boost East Coast economies, and help bring the ocean back to life.
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Is it enough to tax junk food and subsidize good food?
The New York Times' Mark Bittman is right that we need to tax junk food and make healthy food more affordable. But we also need to quash junk-food advertising.
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In defense of organic
A "mythbusting" Scientific American blogger took on organic agriculture recently, but she got much of the story wrong. Grist sets her straight.
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Why is Michelle Obama’s food initiative promoting Walmart?
At Michelle Obama's event announcing that several retailers will open stores in "food deserts," James Gavin said he'd like to see Walmart double its U.S. store count.
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Growing Water Deficit Threatening Grain Harvests
Many countries are facing dangerous water shortages. As world demand for food has soared, millions of farmers have drilled too many irrigation wells in efforts to expand their harvests. As a result, water tables are falling and wells are going dry in some 20 countries containing half the world’s people. The overpumping of aquifers for […]
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Our economy is hungry for food stamps
Food stamps do more than feed the needy-- they also boost a struggling economy.
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Is it meaningless to talk about ‘sustainable’ food?
How sustainable is your jar of Ragu tomato sauce? That is an insane question, says self-described “anti-foodie” Frederick Kaufman in his TED Talk.
Sustainability, Kaufman suggests, can be sort of like porn: you know it when you see it. But people really want it to be quantifiable. Kaufman describes efforts by a grand consortium of scientists, farmers, agribusiness, and environmentalists to track all the inputs into a product and mush those into one number that would reflect its overall sustainability.
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High steaks: Meat eaters' climate impact
The Environmental Working Group released the Meat Eaters Guide to Climate Change + Health, and it contains surprises for climate-conscious eaters.
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Organic farming is not really better for you or the planet [UPDATE: Or is it?]
Science writer Christie Wilcox lays out the top myths about organic farming in Scientific American, and they might surprise you: