Food

8 Surprising Things That May Be Making Americans Fat

By Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Eating too much and exercising too little, considered the root of obesity, are not the only probable culprits.

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Meet the Corporate Front Groups Fighting to Make Sure You Can't Know What's in Your Food

By Ronnie Cummins, Alexis Baden-Mayer / AlterNet

5 Reasons the 'Geezer Empire' of Billionaire Republicans Are Showering Romney With Cash

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

90 Percent of People Want Labeling on Engineered Food, But We Still Don't Have it: Why Is that?

By Dave Murphy / AlterNet

Global CO2 Emissions Hit New Record in 2011, Keeping World on Track for 'Devastating' 11°F Warming

By Joe Romm / Climate Progress

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Secret Trade Agreements Threaten to Undo Our Last Shreds of Food Safety

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The Trouble With Bread: What I Discovered When I Tried to Get to the Bottom of My Gluten Intolerance

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Food

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

Beatrice Marovich / Religion Dispatches

Working With Your Rapist as Your Supervisor? The Widespread Sexual Abuse of Women in Farm Work

Michelle Chen / AlterNet

The "POM" Pomegranate Scam: The Truth Behind the Company and Its Billionaire Owners

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, PepsiCo and Others

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Goodbye Fish and Shellfish? Meet the Biggest Threat to Our Oceans

Brita Belli / E Magazine

Addiction and America's Fat Problem

Susan Cheever / The Fix

Big Beer Brewers Like Anheuser-Busch Are Drunk on Greed

Jim Hightower / AlterNet

Occupying Farmland for Organic Food and Fairness Exposes University Elitism

Diana Pei Wu / Race, Poverty & the Environment

5 Ways to Make America Less Fat

David Sirota / Salon

Hostess Brands Uses Bankruptcy Court to Screw Workers Out of Pensions, Benefits

Bruce Vail / In These Times

Over 100 Children a Year Die Working On Farms: Why Do Prominent Right-Wingers Fight Safety Regulations?

Mariya Strauss / AlterNet

The Terrifying Truth About America's Obesity Epidemic

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

One in 5 Kids Is Obese, Yet Congress Is More Concerned With Protecting Profits Than Kids' Health

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

How Corporations Like Monsanto Have Hijacked Higher Education

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

10 Amazing Discoveries That Should Be Worth Millions

Liz Langley / AlterNet

Confessions of a Cheating Vegan

Donald Kaul / Other Words

School "Lunch Ladies" Fight for Better Food for Students--And Better Jobs

Kari Lydersen / In These Times

Are Olive Oil and Canola Oil Interchangeable?

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

KFC Ordered to Pay $8.3 Million to Australian Girl Paralyzed After Eating a Twister Wrap

AFP

Gulf Coast Waters Closed to Shrimping

Joieau / Daily Kos

Occupy v. Whole Foods? Activists Take Over Land Slated for Development and Start a Farm

Jeff Conant / AlterNet

Is Vermont's Governor Surrendering to Monsanto?

Ronnie Cummins, Will Allen / AlterNet

Where No City Has Gone Before: San Francisco Will Be World's First Zero-Waste Town by 2020

Sven Eberlein / AlterNet

2012 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Risk Their Lives

Environment News Service

Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives

Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

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