Congress pushes back on healthier school lunches 11.15.11
Congress wants to keep pizza and french fries on school lunch lines, fighting back against an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.
Soda Bans in Schools Have Limited Impact 10.7.11
State laws that ban soda in schools — but not other sweetened beverages — have virtually no impact on the amount of sugary drinks middle school students buy and consume at school, a new study shows.
Long road from farm to fork worsens food outbreaks
WASHINGTON — The recent listeria outbreak from cantaloupe demonstrates one likely cause of large-scale occurrences of serious illnesses linked to tainted food: the long and winding road what we eat takes from farm to fork.
In Debate About Food, a Monied New Player
LAST week, a new public-relations campaign about agriculture got off to a splashy start. With full-page ads in newspapers and panel discussions live-streamed on the Internet, the newly formed U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance began what it called a bid to “reshape the dialogue” about the American food supply.
"Cycling to Crenshaw" Bike Pilgrimage to Publix Immokalee to Lakeland, FL 8/27 - 9/6, 2011
After a long journey by bicycle from Immokalee to Lakeland, Publix's CEO Ed Crenshaw refused to even meet with the farmworkers who had traveled 200 miles to personally invite him to visit Immokalee.
When Bloggers Don't Follow the Script, to ConAgra's Chagrin 9.6.11
Food bloggers were invited to a special dinner at a NYC restaurant, but were surprised eating a Marie Callender dinner. This publicity stunt by ConAgra, didn't end up the way they intended.
Why the Breakfast Most Americans Will Eat Today is a Corporate Scam 9.2.11
Not all of it. But nearly every breakfast staple -- cold ceral, donuts, yogurt, bagels and cream cheese, orange juice, frappuccino -- is a staple only because somebody somewhere wanted money...
Publix targeted by picketers 9.3.11
She joined farm workers and members of the Fort Myers-based Interfaith Action Group of Southwest Florida Friday afternoon in a picket outside of the Publix on State Road 70 just west of Interstate 75. The store was the latest stop in a 200-mile bicycle trip undertaken by the workers, who belong to the Coalition for Immokalee Workers...
Fresh and Direct from the Garden an Ocean Away 8.29.11
The foods we consider local are results of a globalization process that has been in full swing for more than five centuries, ever since Columbus landed in the New World. Suddenly all the continents were linked, mixing plants and animals that had evolved separately...Food's New Foot Soldiers 8.23.11
FoodCorps, which started last week, is symbolic of just what we need: a national service program that aims to improve nutrition education for children, develop school gardening projects and change what's being served on school lunch trays...
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