3 Drinks Flight Attendants Avoid When They're Flying

Alternet 10/19 8:30P Robin Scher, AlterNet

You might think twice about ordering these beverages when you re on a plane. Falling sick after a flight is not exactly news to regular travelers. Typically, we attribute this to the stale air and...

Big Ag's 'World Food Prize' Is Nothing but a Slick Propaganda Campaign

Alternet 10/19 8:00P Katherine Paul, AlterNet

Every year, Monsanto and its biotech allies celebrate destructive, industrialized agriculture. On Thursday, the World Food Prize will be ceremoniously bestowed on yet another cheerleader for...

A Month Later, U.S. Is Failing With Its Food and Water Crisis in Puerto Rico

Alternet 10/19 9:00A Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Wat

We must prioritize an equitable and just disaster response and a sustainable future for Puerto Rico. It’s been a month since supercharged Hurricane Maria delivered a devastating blow to Puerto Rico,...

Big Food Is Starting to Worry About a Millennial Generation That's Not So Into Animal Products

Alternet 10/17 8:30P Nathan Runkle, AlterNet

Click here for reuse options! Big Food is trying to figure out how to make people consume more animals. Hundreds of leaders from fast-food chains, marketing agencies and poultry production companies...

Organic Food and Farm-to-Table Pioneer Alice Waters Is Creating a Revolution in School Lunches

Alternet 10/14 6:05A Don Hazen, AlterNet

Click here for reuse options! The celebrated Chez Panisse founder will not rest until every kid in America has a free, sustainably grown, delicious school lunch. When I spoke with Alice Waters, we...

Costco Cashing in on Preppers' Paranoia: Company Overtly Tries to Sell Year's Worth of Canned Food...

Alternet 10/13 8:30P Reynard Loki, AlterNet

Survivalists are planning for a whole lot of rainy days. Between climate change, extreme weather events, nuclear proliferation, economic instability, food insecurity and the increasing...

You're Probably Consuming This 'Probable Carcinogen' Every Single Day

Alternet 10/13 9:00A Carey Gillam, Island Press

Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto s popular RoundUp pesticide, is now present at all levels of the food chain. The following excerpt is from  Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer,...

I Have Tasted the Future of Fake Meat: Amazingly, It Did Not Suck

Alternet 10/12 8:30P Ari LeVaux, AlterNet

Even die-hard meat lovers will love the vegan Impossible Burger. I have tasted the future of fake meat. Amazingly, it did not suck. It s been a year since the Impossible Burger finally made its debut,...

Alarming Report Finds Pests' Resistance to GMO Crops Meant to Kill Them Is Surging

Alternet 10/12 9:00A Sean Duffy, Courthouse News

Eventually, Mother Nature wins. Resistance to crops that have been genetically modified to kill pests is surging, according to a study that examines 20 years of data. In 2016 alone, farmers worldwide...

On Superior Farmlands, Limited Appetite for Local Food

Civil Eats 10/11 11:00P Lynn Freehill-Maye

When Wes Jarrell and Leslie Cooperband took jobs as soil scientists at the University of Illinois 13 years ago, they bought a farmhouse outside Champaign-Urbana, and set off on a bike ride. The...

Why the Soda Industry Is the Big Tobacco of Our Times

Alternet 10/11 7:20A Marion Nestle, Oxford University

Soft drinks are a multibillion-dollar industry with a health-harming playbook straight from the cigarette companies. The following is an adapted excerpt from the new book  Soda Politics: Taking on Big...

Can We Trust the Sustainable Meat We Order Online?

Civil Eats 10/10 11:00P Lynne Curry

The best way to know where your beef comes from is to order directly from a farmer. But not everyone can afford to pay farmers’ market prices or to front hundreds of dollars for a cow share and then...

Pesticides Contaminate 75% of the World's Honey, New Research Reveals

Alternet 10/9 9:00A Damian Carrington, The Guardian

Contamination rates were highest in North America with 86% of samples containing one or more neonicotinoid pesticide. Honey from across the world is contaminated with potent pesticides known to harm...

5 Anti-Anxiety Foods and Their Key Components to Help Calm Your Nerves

Alternet 10/8 8:30P Annie B. Bond, AlterNet

Click here for reuse options! More Americans than ever before are stressed out, anxious and depressed. If you have a craving for Mexican food, or a dessert of berries and chocolate, you may be looking...

Our Addiction to Palm Oil Is Decimating Wildlife and Threatening Food Security

Alternet 10/6 8:30P Margi Prideaux, Badrul Azhar, Al

Palm oil is everywhere—in foods, cosmetics, soaps, pharmaceuticals and biofuels. And it s ruining the planet. Palm oil is now a ubiquitous international commodity. It’s a key ingredient in a wide...