Should Sugar Be Regulated Like a Controlled Substance? Why Some Folks Are Saying Yes
By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet
An opinion piece in the journal Nature suggests ways the government could regulate added sugar, including a sugar tax, distribution controls and age limits.
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I'm on Food Stamps: My Shame and Pride in Signing up for the Most Stigmatized Benefit
By Christopher D. Cook
Salon
Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the Corporation They Fear Will Take Over All America's Crops
By Anna Lekas Miller
AlterNet
The Truth Behind Why High Calorie Chef Paula Deen Is Pushing Diabetes Drug
By Brad Jacobson / AlterNet
While Republicans Play Politics Over Food Stamps, New Film Focuses on Hunger in America
By Amy Goodman, Raj Patel / Democracy Now!
Sugar High: The Dark History and Nasty Methods Used to Feed Our Sweet Tooth
By Jill Richardson / AlterNet
How Activists Can 'Occupy' Their Cities with New Legal Structures That Empower Communities Over Corporations
By Jeff Reifman, Thomas Linzey / YES! Magazine
Why You May Be Drinking Soda That Contains a Dangerous Flame Retardant Banned in Europe and Japan
By Brett Israel / Environmental Health News
We've Lost Nearly All of Our Wild Foods -- What Happened? And What Are We Missing?
By Jill Richardson / AlterNet
More Nature, More Sex, More Sleep: 8 New Year's Resolutions That Will Actually Make You Happy and Healthy
By Alison Pace / AlterNet
Goodbye 'Shop Til You Drop' Mentality: Renegade Band of Economists Call for 'Degrowth' Economy
By Christine MacDonald / AlterNet
The Wrong Kind of Fat Tax: Forget Taxing Soda to Curb Obesity, Tax Producers of Sugar and Sweetners
By Emily Badger / Miller-McCune.com
Why Is the FDA Saying It's OK to Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens?
By Brad Jacobson / AlterNet
Family Farmers Are the 99 Percent: How Occupy Wall Street Is Bridging the Rural/Urban Divide
By Dave Murphy / AlterNet
The Health of Children and Consumers Is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Welcome to Peak Water: Scientists Say Time Is up to Prepare for Melting Glaciers
By Douglas Fischer / Daily Climate
Regulators Crack Down on Micro-Dairies, But Small Farmers Fight Back With Local Food Sovereignty Ordinances
By Rebekah Wilce / AlterNet
Why Is a Farmer Who Sells Extra Milk From His One Cow to Neighbors Being Sued By the State of Maine?
By Rebekah Wilce / AlterNet
Bugs and Krill, the Other White Meats: Time to Start Eating at the Bottom of the Food Chain
By Anneli Rufus / AlterNet
Occupy Your Food Supply: Radical Farmer's March Aims to Bridge Urban-Rural Divide, Focus in on "Food Justice"
By Anna Lekas Miller / AlterNet
Arsenic in Your Apple Juice? How a Dangerous Poison Found Its Way Into Fruit Juice
By Tom Philpott / Mother Jones Online
Can Ocean Farms Actually Be More Sustainable Than Even the Most Environmentally Sensitive Traditional Farms?
By Brendan Smith / AlterNet
Globalization Leads to Struggle for Food that Imperils Filipino Poor
By Erika Eichelberger / AlterNet
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