Food

Corporate Land Grabs Reveal a Hidden Agenda: Controlling the Water

By Shiney Varghese / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

The food crisis and recent droughts have confirmed that controlling the source of food—the land and the water that flows under or by it—are equally or even more important.

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Shocking: Reporting Factory Farm Abuses to be Considered "Act of Terrorism" If New Laws Pass

By Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Is Genetically Engineered Salmon Safe?

By Ocean Robbins / AlterNet

Say It Ain't So -- A Can of Soda a Day Can Increase the Risk of Cancer for Men by 40 Percent?

By Scott Thill / AlterNet

6 Foods That Companies Hype to Make You Think They Are Healthy

By Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

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Food

Can Healthy Food Eaters Stomach the Uncomfortable Truth About Quinoa?

Joanna Blythman / The Guardian

Dumpster Diving in the Great Recession: 'I Did It Because I Was Hungry" (Hard Times, USA)

Kenan Heise / Marion Street Press

What's Behind New Findings That It's Healthy to Be Overweight?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Why We Need Labels on Factory-Farmed Food

Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Coca-Cola's New Ad Campaign Claims the Company Is Fighting Obesity? Oh, Please

Marion Nestle / Food Politics

Monsanto's Earnings Nearly Double as They Create a Farming Monopoly

Charlotte Silver / Al Jazeera

5 Celebrities Who Shill For Pathetic Junk Food and Drinks

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

New Report Outlines Our Future: Climate Change Set to Make America Hotter, Drier and More Disaster-prone

Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian

Are Walmart and Big Food Lobbying for a GMO Labeling Law?

Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Are Detox Diets and Cleanses Dangerous?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

The 4 Most Disgusting Energy Drinks Sold in America

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

6 Reasons GMO Labeling Will Pass in Washington State

Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Despite Dubious Evidence of Safety, You May Soon Be Eating Unlabeled Genetically Engineered Salmon

Dan Bacher / AlterNet

Why We Need a New Year's Revolution Against the Corporatocracy

Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

The 7 Worst Things About McDonald's

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

Defense and Security Companies Are Planning to Cash in on Climate Change and Environmental Collapse

Nick Buxton, Ben Hayes / AlterNet

13 Ways to Change the Food System in 2013

Danielle Nierenberg / Food Tank

Palm Oil Is in Everything from Soap to Waffles -- And Causing Massive Human Suffering and Environmental Harm

David Gilbert / Earth Island Journal

5 Reasons Our Changing Climate Is More Dangerous Than You Think

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

How the Food Movement Is Gaining Strength

Ocean Robbins / AlterNet

Revealed: What the Beef Industry Pumps Into Your Dinner

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Is it Time to Just Say No to Eating Beef?

Marc Gunther / Yale Environment 360

Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest

Vandana Shiva / YES! Magazine

Bombing North Dakota: What It's Like to Live Amid the Oil Boom

James William Gibson / Earth Island Journal

Catastrophe in the Making: Mining for Uranium Could Begin on the East Coast

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

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