Women Still Carry Most of the World's Water

Alternet 7/21 9:00A Bethany Caruso, The Conversation

In a study of 25 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, UNICEF estimated that women there spent 16 million hours collecting water each day. Imagine going through your day without access to clean, safe water...

Some Government Programs Are Basically Slush Funds for the Beef and Pork Industries: Now Some...

Alternet 7/20 8:30P Wayne Pacelle, AlterNet

Click here for reuse options! Abusive federal checkoff programs have been in place for decades. To its credit, the California Senate Judiciary Committee stopped a bill to expand the state tax on...

By 2030, Nearly 100,000 Additional Child Deaths From Undernutrition Will Occur Due to Climate...

Alternet 7/20 9:00A Anthony John McMichael, Alistair

Most public discussion has been slow to connect the dots between climate change, food and health. The following excerpt is from  Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate...

Monsanto Dealt Devastating Blow as California Declares Glyphosate Weed Killer a Cancer-Causing...

Alternet 7/15 9:00A Mike Adams, Natural News

Monsanto sued California to try to stop the listing, but failed. In a significant victory for consumer safety — and a devastating blow to Monsanto —  California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard...

3 Most Important Questions You Must Ask to Identify Authentic Produce and Ethical Farmers at the...

Alternet 7/14 9:00A Linley Dixon, AlterNet

Click here for reuse options! When certified organic isn t available, what should you do? As market season kicks into high gear, farm stands beckon shoppers with signs: Local! Organic! Natural! No...

Local Flowers Make a Comeback

Civil Eats 7/12 11:00P Stephanie Parker

On a former tobacco farm near North Carolina’s bustling Research Triangle, Jonathan Leiss and Megan Cornett Leiss are harvesting small white flowers in preparation for Mother’s Day. The flowers,...

Fish Farming Is So Filthy That Salmon Are Getting Lice

Alternet 7/12 9:00A Julie Cappiello, Mercy for Anima

A study published in 2016 noted that factory-farmed salmon become so depressed they give up on life. Last year, wholesale salmon prices rose by 50 percent due to an outbreak of sea lice from Sweden to...

Urban Gleaning Grows Up

Civil Eats 7/11 11:00P Jordan Figueiredo

America’s 42 million home and community gardeners grow an estimated 11 billion pounds more food than they can use. Meanwhile, 87 percent of Americans are not eating enough fruits and vegetables. The...

There's a Tick That Can Make You Allergic to Meat—and It's Spreading (Video)

Alternet 7/11 9:00A Robin Scher, AlterNet

Click here for reuse options! Bacon lovers, be warned! Imagine one day, right out of the blue, all that delicious meat you’ve come to know, love, and eat suddenly made you feel sick to the pit of your...

Gardening for the Resistance: How One Family is Growing Their Way Out of Despair

Alternet 7/11 4:26A Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch

Taking inspiration from the victory gardens of previous generations, to fight Trump-era hopelessness. In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s  1984   soared onto  bestseller lists...

America Votes the Way It Eats

Alternet 7/8 6:32A Lucian K. Truscott IV, Salon

You can learn a lot about how the voting public thinks based on what s available to eat in chain restaurants. After this last election, we already know the way America votes. Now, after spending the...

The Kings of 'Rotten Eggs' Are Going to Jail

Alternet 7/7 10:05A Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet

Click here for reuse options! Jack and Peter DeCoster, the former heads of Quality Egg Co., were finally punished for their role in a Salmonella outbreak. A couple of rotten eggs finally got their...

6 Reasons More Farms Should Grow Mushrooms

Civil Eats 7/6 11:00P Peter McCoy

It’s a lot easier to grow mushrooms today than it ever has been. For decades, most of the mushrooms we ate came from giant farms using lab-based cultivation practices that required expensive equipment and demanding degrees of precision. In recent...

Why Eating Meat in America Is Like Going on a Trip to the Drug Store

Alternet 7/6 9:56A Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet

Click here for reuse options! Most of the meat Americans eat is banned in other industrialized countries. Recently, Organic Consumers Association, along with Friends of the Earth and Center for Food...

This Beef Farmer Had a Change of Heart and Sent His Cows to a Sanctuary

Alternet 7/6 9:00A Sarah Von Alt, Mercy for Animals

More than 60 cows will now get to live out their natural lives in peace. According to  BBC News , one beef farmer has saved his cows from slaughter by sending them to a sanctuary. In total, 63 cows...