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Livestock Falling Ill in Fracking Regions, Raising Concerns About Food by Elizabeth Royte for The Food & Environment Reporting Network In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling [...]
Heat and Harvest – the documentary by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California with the Center for Investigative Reporting Like what you see in the supermarket produce section? Enjoy, because things may be changing there – the prices, even the mix of [...]
VIDEO: THE (OPEN-SOURCE) ECOLOGIST A farm run by DIY technologists aims to revolutionize agriculture. By Mario Furloni and Thomas Gorman for The Ration Dr. Marcin Jakubowski. photo: Sean Church Marcin Jakubowski traded in a promising career in nuclear [...]
The hidden costs of hamburgers by Carrie Ching, Arthur Jones and Sarah Terry-Cobo for CIR Americans love hamburgers – we each eat an average of three a week. But what are the hidden costs? It turns out that industrial beef creates about as [...]
Farmworkers plagued by pesticides, red tape by Ronnie Greene for iWatch News NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Laboring in the blackberry fields of central Arkansas, the 18-year-old Mexican immigrant suddenly turned ill. Her nose began to bleed, her skin developed [...]
Toward a Regional Food System Alliance Development Strategy for the West Kootenay: an analysis of the best practices for forming and sustaining a regional food system alliance for our region by Deconstructing Dinner in collaboration with Columbia Basin Trust, [...]
Food Chemical Regulations Rely Heavily on Industry Self-Policing and Lack Transparency by The PEW Charitable Trusts Safety decisions concerning one-third of the more than 10,000 substances that may be added to human food were made by food manufacturers [...]
As part of the suit, the groups asked the Department of Pesticide Regulation to release documents explaining how the agency decided to approve the chemical. The plaintiffs wanted to know how the agency had settled on exposure levels more than 100 times higher than what scientists within the agency believed were safe.
Iowa is ground zero for undercover investigations of livestock facilities by animal rights activists. It is also the first of four states to try to ban them. One former investigator goes public for the first time to offer a rare glimpse at how these videos are made, and what's at stake for farmers, animals and consumers.
Researchers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England, recorded a case of a leptin-deficient girl who ate enormous meals and constantly demanded snacks. After a year of leptin treatment, she lost weight and reported that she no longer felt constantly hungry. Berridge called leptin-deficient people “proof of the logical possibility that something like a food addiction exists.”