Food

Why Is Vermont’s Governor Peter Shumlin Bowing to Monsanto?

By Will Allen / AlterNet

Shumlin has repeatedly expressed reluctance to stand up to Monsanto despite the fact that 90 percent of Vermonters support labeling genetically modified foods.

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Is Sustainable Tourism Everything It's Cracked Up to Be? I Found Out in Ecuador.

By Nola Solomon / AlterNet

Corporate Food Giants Have Reason to Worry -- Some Very Brave Supermarkets Are Sharing Nutritional Score Numbers with Customers

By Marty Kaplan / AlterNet

Undocumented Farmworkers Are 'Perfect Victims' for Sexual Assault and Harrassment

By Joseph Sorrentino / Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute

The 7 Patty Burger? Diner Chain Flips Off Nutritionists With Greasy Monstrosity

By Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

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Food

Why America Has the Cheapest, Most Addictive and Most Nutritionally Inferior Food in the World

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

The Weaponizing of Salt, Sugar and Fat: The Secrets of How Big Food Got Us Hooked on Junk

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

What it Means that Monsanto Holds the Patents on Life

Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Oceana Uncovers Rampant Seafood Fraud Across United States

Angela Kinsey, Andrew Sharpless / Huffington Post

Nanoparticles Are in Our Food, Clothing and Medicine -- And No One Knows for Sure How Dangerous They Might Be

Heather Millar / Orion Magazine

To Eat Quinoa or Not: As the Controversy Continues, Are We Even Asking the Right Questions?

Tanya Kerssen / AlterNet

Monsanto Likely to Score Supreme Court Win with Far-Reaching Benefits for Corporate Farming

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

The 9 Weirdest Diets in History

Emine Saner / The Guardian

Nestlé Recall and Mafia Connections: 5 Things You Should Know As Horse Meat Scandal Grows

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Uncovering the Real Story Behind the 'Conversion' of Mark Lynas from Climate Change Journalist to Cheerleader for Genetically Modified Foods

Zack Kaldveer, Katherine Paul / AlterNet

Heart Attack Grill Delivers on Its Promise

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Heart Attack Grill Lives Up to Its Name

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Note to Mrs. Obama: Try Hemp in the White House Garden

Jim Hightower / Creators Syndicate

The Super Bowl Ad That Coke And Pepsi Desperately Don’t Want You To See

Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress

Is Everything You Learned About Breakfast Wrong?

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

Exposed: How Whole Foods and the Biggest Organic Foods Distributor Are Screwing Workers

Ronnie Cummins, Dave Murphy / AlterNet

The Surprising Connection Between Food and Fracking

Tom Philpott / Mother Jones

Listen Up, Foodies! Saru Jayaraman Thinks You Should Care as Much About Restaurant Workers as You Do Your Organic Chicken

Amy Dean / Truthout

Ashton Kutcher Lands in the Hospital After Adopting Steve Jobs' Fruitarian Diet

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

How Big Food Is Targeting My Toddler

Pamela Mejia / Berkeley Media Studies Group

The Nefarious Ways Junk Food Marketers are Trying to Buy Off Dietitians

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Is Sugar a Killer?

Elizabeth Weil / Pacific Standard

Nestle and California Pizza Kitchen Being Sued for "Deliberately Poisoning Their Consumers"

Matt Reynolds / Courthouse News

Hate Eating Corporate Food? Democracy Is the Best Recipe

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

'Foodopoly:' Exposing the Handful of Corporations That Control Our Food System From Seed to Dinner Plate

Wenonah Hauter / The New Press

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