The National Chicken Counsel Is Trying to Con Shoppers

Alternet 9/19 9:59A David Coman-Hidy, AlterNet

New guidelines are an attempt to deflect consumers’ real concerns. Lying big is a tried-and-true practice of big business. Reports from August on a disturbing Harvard study found that ExxonMobil has a...

Big Corporations Like Nestle Are Aggressively Making People Even Fatter Across the Globe

Alternet 9/18 10:35A Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet

Developing countries are a hot market for Big Food s high-calorie junk food. There are now more than 700 million obese people worldwide, 108 million of them children, reported the New York  Times...

Building Portland’s Local Food Economy at the Redd

Civil Eats 9/17 10:58P Hannah Wallace

When Cattail Creek Lamb owner John Neumeister was younger, he would devote one day per week to making the 110-mile drive from his ranch near Junction City, Oregon to Portland, where the bulk of his...

There's a Hidden Carcinogen Tainting Tap Water and Consumer Products Nationwide

Alternet 9/15 8:30P Tasha Stoiber, AlterNet

More than 7 million Americans across 27 states are impacted. Water supplies for more than 7 million Americans in 27 states are contaminated with an industrial chemical at levels higher than what...

7 Good Things That Happen Every Time You Decide to Buy Local

Alternet 9/15 4:50A Valerie Vande Panne, AlterNet

Shopping local will help you live longer—and better. In times like these (Donald Trump, the climate crisis, environmental degradation, police brutality, etc.), it’s natural to feel a need to do...

Two Serious Threats Could Put Latin American Coffee Production Into Crisis Mode

Alternet 9/13 9:00A Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief

For java junkies, trouble is brewing. Trouble could be brewing for the Latin American coffee industry, new research warns, as it faces losses in suitable farmland and declines in important bee species...

Do You Really Need a Meal in Box Delivered to Your Doorstep?

Alternet 9/8 8:30P Melissa Kravitz, AlterNet

The meal kit service Blue Apron had an underwhelming IPO. A New York City chef offers one possible explanation. “To me, meal kits feel like cheating, not cooking,” Chef Amanda Cohen wrote in a New...

How Monsanto Is Devastating Thousands of Farms Across 20 States

Alternet 9/8 8:00P Bill Freese, AlterNet

Monsanto s GE cotton and soybeans were made to be resistant to an herbicide that drifts and damages nearby crops. Bill Bader is Missouri’s largest peach grower, supplying produce to retailers...

Water Just Got Healthier—or So Pepsico Wants You to Think

Alternet 9/8 3:00P Sophie Linden, AlterNet

Does reverse-osmosis designer water really help a crippled planet? This year PepsiCo released a new line of water called Lifewtr, a pH-balanced drink sparkling with electrolytes purportedly meant to...

Trigger Happy With Toxins

Alternet 9/7 10:35A Jill Richardson, OtherWords

New varieties of GMOs come with instructions to douse the earth with toxic herbicides. For many years, genetically engineered crops were said to be environmentally responsible. Those crops have genes...

How Natural Disasters Like Hurricane Harvey Affect Farmed Animals

Alternet 9/7 9:00A Joe Loria, Mercy for Animals

Videos show stranded cows seeking higher ground to avoid rushing floodwaters. The devastating floods caused by Hurricane Harvey affect not only residents and their companion animals but also millions...

Michael Twitty’s ‘Cooking Gene’ Uses History as a Lens on Food and Race

Civil Eats 9/5 11:00P Lisa Held

“What I miss in the U.S. food movement is an urgent sense of history,” writer and activist Raj Patel told Civil Eats last year when asked about racism in the food system. Patel added that he wanted to...

The Relationship Between the Modern Western Diet and Alzheimer's Disease

Alternet 9/3 8:00A Amy Berger, Chelsea Green Publis

Alzheimer s may ultimately be the result of metabolic disturbances similar to those seen in type 2 diabetes. The following excerpt is adapted from Amy Berger s new book The Alzheimer s Antidote: Using...

4 Tips for an Eco-Friendly, Cruelty-Free Labor Day BBQ

Alternet 9/1 8:45P Reynard Loki, AlterNet

Click here for reuse options! Grilling is more enjoyable when it doesn t harm animals or the environment. Like many Americans, you may be looking forward to a backyard barbecue on Labor Day weekend. ...

European Cardiologists Find Drinking More Coffee and Eating Dark Chocolate Are Linked to Longer...

Alternet 9/1 1:34P Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

An apple a day? Forget it. Try four cups of coffee and olive-oil laced dark chocolate. Drinking four cups of coffee a day will help prolong one’s life and snacking on dark chocolate made from extra...