Food

Holy Cow! How Senators and Movie Stars Use Livestock to Game the Tax Code

By Pat Garofalo / AlterNet

Bigwigs are using sheep and cows to gain big tax benefits for themselves at our expense. These loopholes must end.

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Why Hot Dogs, Chicken Nuggets and Some Other "Meats" Are Way Grosser Than 'Pink Slime'

By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

Federal Government May Lower Poultry Inspection Standards

By Renee Scott / American Federation of Government Employees

Does Meat Kill More Americans Than Cigarettes Do?

By Kathy Freston / AlterNet

Got Propaganda? Why All of the Milk Industry's Health Claims Have Been Proven Wrong

By Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

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

How America Is Making the Whole World Fat and Unhealthy

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

What You Should Know About the Company Pushing Genetically Engineered Salmon on Consumers

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

There's No Time to Delay: Congress Needs to Pass a Farm Bill in 2012

Ben Burkett / Other Words

Students Eating "Pink Slime" for Lunch? Fast Foods Have Ditched the "Meat" But Schools Are Still Stuck With It

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Is Gluten Ruining Your Health (Or Are We Way Too Paranoid?)

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

How FreshDirect Delivers Misery Along With Your Groceries--And How Workers and the Community are Fighting Back

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

I Love Food, But Food Doesn't Love Me -- What's Behind Food Intolerance?

Casey Lazonick / AlterNet

Activists Are Reclaiming Vacant Lots For Gardens -- But Will There Be Legal Challenges?

Anna Lekas Miller / AlterNet

New Laws Open The Market for Homemade Foods

Brie Mazurek / CUESA

How I Learned the Mainstream Myth About Eating Disorders Was Wrong

Autumn Whitefield-Madrano / Salon

Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat

Christopher D. Cook / AlterNet

Goodbye Overconsumption: Why the Commons Can Save Us From Drowning in Too Much Stuff

Jay Walljasper / On the Commons

Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France

Anthony Gucciardi / Natural Society

Humanity's Growing Impact on the World's Freshwater

Sandra Postel / National Geographic's Water Currents

What Are We Really Eating? Reporter Goes Undercover to Reveal the Real Story of Our Broken Food System

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

Making Sustainability Legal: 9 Zombie Laws That Keep Cities From Going Green

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

Is Israel's Government Involved in Harassment Lawsuit Against Washington Food Cooperative?

Phan Nguyen / Mondoweiss

Why Everything You've Been Told About Dieting Is Wrong

Kerry Sheridan / AFP

Is Your Local Restaurant Relying on Exploited Women's Labor?

Michelle Chen / Ms. Blog

After Bankruptcy Hostess Vows to Keep Making Twinkies, But Sacrifices Workers

Jim Hightower / Other Words

UN Declares 2012 The Year of The Co-op: Is This The Future of Capitalism?

Jessica Reeder / YES! Magazine

Sex and Food: The World's Strangest Aphrodisiacs Through Time

Felisa Rogers / Salon

Victory: Trader Joe's Signs Fair Food Agreement, Promising Better Conditions for Workers

Josh Eidelson / In These Times

Have Bees Become Canaries In the Coal Mine? Why Massive Bee Dieoffs May Be a Warning About Our Own Health

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Should Sugar Be Regulated Like a Controlled Substance? Why Some Folks Are Saying Yes

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

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