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Occupy Your Kitchen!

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Farming, Farms, Cooking, Agriculture, Food Democracy Now!, Food, Big Ag, Food and Water Watch, Chefs Collaborative, Occupy, Adm, Monsanto, Tyson, Food News
Kurt Michael Friese

What we have is not just a food problem in this country, but a cooking problem. Food marketers have been working for decades to convince people that cooking is a chore.

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"Sugar is Sugar" Claims the Corn Refiners Association. But Is It?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Precautionary Principle, Corn-Refiners-Association, Prevention, Children, Health, Adm, Cargill, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Genetically Modified Food, Obesity, Sugar, Allergies, Corn Allergies, Food News
Robyn O'Brien

The Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking that manufacturers have the option of using "corn sugar" as an alternate name for high fructose corn syrup.

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Most Non-Politically Correct Investments You Can Make (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, Deepwater, Bp, Unethical Companies, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Blackstone, Newmont Mining Corp, Stocks, Exxon Valdez, Goldman Sachs, Stock Market, Monsanto, Slidepollajax, Philip Morris, Altria, Securities and Exchange Commission, Adm, Business News

Cigarette makers, war profiteers, oil drillers -- they're great for your bottom line. As Libya endorses BP stock, and others quietly follow suit, ...

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A Tale of Two (Extremely Different) Meals

Steve Ettlinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Processed Food, Artificial Ingredients, Food Politics, Food, Food Culture, Univ. Of Illinois, Adm, Local and Sustainable Farming, Farmers' Markets, Goat Cheese, Illinois, Twinkies, Twinkie Deconstructed, Food News
Steve Ettlinger

In two days I managed to taste the widest difference in sources and processing possible. Synthetic to sustainable, totally processed to minimally processed, commodity to local.

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Global Harvest Initiative Seeks Not to Feed People, But to Bolster Big Agriculture's Profits

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dupont, Hunger, Monsanto, Global Harvest Initiative, Dan Glickman, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Richard Lugar, Adm, Norman Borlaug, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Hunger looks on the surface to be the most bipartisan policy issue on our collective plates. We can all agree to the fact that hunger today is a global tragedy. But from there the discussion diverges.

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