Food

5 Weird and Frightening Effects of Fracking You May Not Know About

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

We know fracking has environmental and health damages, but there are other terrifying consequences.

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Can the Local Food Movement Scale Up to Meet the Demand of Hospitals and Other Big Purchasers?

By Kendra Klein / The Nation

Why the Right to Know What's in Our Food Has Become One of the Biggest Fights of the Election

By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

Debunked: 6 Lies That Biotech and Big Food Are Telling Voters About Prop 37

By Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Israeli Government Consciously Planned to Keep Palestinians "on a Diet", Controlling Their Food Supply, Damning Document Reveals

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment

Yuck: Our Seafood Is Loaded with Unspeakably Gross Pollutants

7 Highly Disturbing Trends in Junk Food Advertising to Children

Good News For Animal Lovers: Factory Farming's Days May Be Numbered

Food

Big Trouble Ahead? Why the Forecasts for Food Production Could Be Entirely Wrong

George Monbiot / Monbiot.com

Communities Take Food Justice Into Their Own Hands, One Plot at a Time

Rachel Morello-Frosch , Manuel Pastor / AlterNet

Ryan Campaign Forced its Way into Soup Kitchen for Fake Photo Op, Jeopardized Charity's Funding

Jed Lewison / Daily Kos

Fast Food Companies Like Subway, McDonald’s and Starbucks Are Gaming the System to Avoid Millions in Taxes

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Karuk Tribe: Learning from the First Californians for the Next California

Manuel Pastor / AlterNet

2012 Drought: Pick Your Poison

Brian Bienkowski / Daily Climate

Palestinians Face Food and Water Crisis in the West Bank Spurred by Israeli Control of Resources

Anna Lekas Miller / Triple Crisis

If America Only Knew How Much Arsenic Ends Up on the Average Dinner Plate

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Is Whole Foods Sincere About its Support for Labeling Genetically Modified Foods?

Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Food MythBusters Take on Big Ag's Worst Lies

Anna Lappé / AlterNet

Seeking Living Wage and Humane Conditions, Workers Bring Fair Food Struggle to Chipotle

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

$34.4 Million Can’t Seem To Buy Prop 37 Opponents Like Monsanto and Big Food Their Own Facts

Zack Kaldveer / AlterNet

Big Fail From Congress, Farm Bill Expires

Ferd Hoefner / AlterNet

Phoenix Mayor Attempts to Live on a Food Stamp Budget: 'I'm Tired, and It's Hard To Focus'

Travis Waldron / Think Progress

Brainwashed by Junk Food? New Study Reveals Fast-Food Logos "Imprinted" in Children’s Minds

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

50 Years After 'Silent Spring' We Have Ignored Rachel Carson’s Findings to Our Peril

Joseph J. Mangano, Janette D. Sherman / The Washington Spectator

South Africa Lifts Fracking Moratorium; Citizens Alarmed By U.S. Fracking Examples

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

Why Capitalism, Not Population Is Our Greatest Environmental Threat

Devon G. Peña / AlterNet

Are You Ready for the Post-Masculine World?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Top 10 Ways Corporate Food Is Making Us Fat and Threatening Our Food Supplies

Juan Cole / Informed Comment

Beware! 5 Depressing Stories About Food in the News This Past Week

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Farmers Warned to Watch for Carcinogen as Drought Continues

Editorial Staff / Daily Climate

Revealed: World's Most Predatory Company is Poisoning You

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

"Pink Slime" Company Brings Defamation Suit Against Media, Scientists and Whistleblowers

William K. Black / Benzinga

Is Alzheimers Just Another Form of Diabetes? How Our Diet May Be Destroying Our Brains

George Monbiot / Monbiot.com

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