Food

I'm on Food Stamps: My Shame and Pride in Signing up for the Most Stigmatized Benefit

By Christopher D. Cook / Salon

I call myself frayed white collar -- part of the privileged poor. I'm a semi-accomplished, mid-career journalist and writer, but now I'm hurtling precipitously toward poverty.

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The Dark Side of Chocolate: What Our Love Affair With Cocoa Means for the World

By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the Corporation They Fear Will Take Over All America's Crops

By Anna Lekas Miller / AlterNet

I Will Not Be Pinkwashed: Komen's Race Is For Money, Not Cure

By Emily Michele / ButterBeliever.com

1.25 Billion Chicken Wings? The Vast Amounts of Crappy Food Americans Consume on Super Bowl Sunday

By Tara Lohan / 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

The Scary Danger of Meat (Even For Those Who Don't Eat It)

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

The Truth Behind Why High Calorie Chef Paula Deen Is Pushing Diabetes Drug

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

Paula Deen: Populist Cook or Diabetic Scam Artist?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

While Republicans Play Politics Over Food Stamps, New Film Focuses on Hunger in America

Amy Goodman, Raj Patel / Democracy Now!

Sugar High: The Dark History and Nasty Methods Used to Feed Our Sweet Tooth

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Compost Cuisine: Amazing Ways to Make Delicious Food Out of Garbage

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

How Genetically Modified Foods Could Affect Our Health in Unexpected Ways

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

How Activists Can 'Occupy' Their Cities with New Legal Structures That Empower Communities Over Corporations

Jeff Reifman, Thomas Linzey / YES! Magazine

Hope for Salmon as Dams Come Down

Jennifer Kaye / YES! Magazine

Why You Can Be Branded a Terrorist for Fighting Animal Abuse

Rania Khalek / AlterNet

Why You May Be Drinking Soda That Contains a Dangerous Flame Retardant Banned in Europe and Japan

Brett Israel / Environmental Health News

We've Lost Nearly All of Our Wild Foods -- What Happened? And What Are We Missing?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

More Nature, More Sex, More Sleep: 8 New Year's Resolutions That Will Actually Make You Happy and Healthy

Alison Pace / AlterNet

Goodbye 'Shop Til You Drop' Mentality: Renegade Band of Economists Call for 'Degrowth' Economy

Christine MacDonald / AlterNet

The Wrong Kind of Fat Tax: Forget Taxing Soda to Curb Obesity, Tax Producers of Sugar and Sweetners

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?

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

The Best, Worst and Most Overlooked Food Stories of 2011

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

Family Farmers Are the 99 Percent: How Occupy Wall Street Is Bridging the Rural/Urban Divide

Dave Murphy / AlterNet

The Health of Children and Consumers Is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Welcome to Peak Water: Scientists Say Time Is up to Prepare for Melting Glaciers

Douglas Fischer / Daily Climate

Regulators Crack Down on Micro-Dairies, But Small Farmers Fight Back With Local Food Sovereignty Ordinances

Rebekah Wilce / AlterNet

Why Is a Farmer Who Sells Extra Milk From His One Cow to Neighbors Being Sued By the State of Maine?

Rebekah Wilce / AlterNet

Bugs and Krill, the Other White Meats: Time to Start Eating at the Bottom of the Food Chain

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

10 Most Horrifically Unhealthy Cereals

Kiera Butler / Mother Jones

Occupy Your Food Supply: Radical Farmer's March Aims to Bridge Urban-Rural Divide, Focus in on "Food Justice"

Anna Lekas Miller / AlterNet

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