Food

Arsenic in Your Apple Juice? How a Dangerous Poison Found Its Way Into Fruit Juice

By Tom Philpott / Mother Jones Online

So how much reason is there to be concerned about the trace of poison lurking in your kids' juice box?

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Can Ocean Farms Actually Be More Sustainable Than Even the Most Environmentally Sensitive Traditional Farms?

By Brendan Smith / AlterNet

Globalization Leads to Struggle for Food that Imperils Filipino Poor

By Erika Eichelberger / AlterNet

4 Reasons to Give Thanks to Our Oceans (Without Them We're Screwed)

By Casson Trenor / AlterNet

Who Will Be the Biggest Loser if We Don't Fix the Farm Bill?

By Rich Bindell / Food & Water Watch

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

4 Absurd, Damaging Right-Wing Lies About Food Stamps

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey On?

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

5 Ridiculous Myths People Use to Trash Local Food -- And Why They're Wrong

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Why the Most Important Fish We Need to Save Is One You've Never Heard Of

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

When It Comes to the Environment, Are We the 99 Percent or the 1 Percent?

Christine MacDonald / AlterNet

Are Farm Subsidies Really to Blame for Obesity?

Wenonah Hauter, Carmen Rita Nevarez / Other Words

Why Is the State Department Using Our Money to Pimp for Monsanto?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

7 Billion and Counting: Welcome to a Planet With Population Overload and Resources in Crisis [With Photos From National Geographic]

Scott Thill / AlterNet

Pakistan's Refugees Reluctant to Return as American War Rages

IRIN

Corporate Crimes In the Cereal Aisle: How Companies Are Fooling You Into Thinking Their Products Are Healthy

Ida Hartmann / AlterNet

Worst Food Additive Ever? It's in Half of All Foods We Eat and Its Production Destroys Rainforests and Enslaves Children

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

If We End Farm Subsidies, Does That Mean Our Food System Will Be Healthy?

Wenonah Hauter / Food & Water Watch

Nuclear Disaster in the US: How Bechtel Is Botching the World's Costliest Environmental Cleanup

Joshua Frank / Seattle Weekly

Tarps, Not Spirits, Sag as Storm Soaks Liberty Square

Nick Turse / AlterNet

If You Eat, You Better Occupy Wall Street

Dave Murphy / AlterNet

Landmines Take Horrific Toll

IRIN

Why Danes Are So Much Happier Than Americans

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

Thanks to the FDA, You Really Have No Idea What's In Your Food

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

One of the Worst Meals You Can Possibly Eat Has Just Been Banned in California

Casson Trenor / AlterNet

Refugee Rape: The Hidden Side of the Famine Crisis

Isaiah Esipisu / IPS News

Is Yemen on the Brink of Humanitarian Disaster?

IRIN

USDA Gives Taxpayer Money to Fund Company's Efforts to Genetically Engineer Salmon

Clare Leschin-Hoar / Grist.org

After Years of 'Research' and Millions of Dollars, Is Wendy's New Burger Really Any Better?

Jim Hightower / Other Words

Need a Job? Start Your Own -- Here Are 5 Entrepreneurs Who Ditched the Corporate World

YES! Magazine

There Is No Biological Reason to Eat Three Meals a Day -- So Why Do We Do It?

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

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