Food Policy

ConAgra And Kellogg’s Join General Mills And Mars To Label GMOs

  By Colin O’Neil • Copyright © Environmental Working Group, www.ewg.org. Reproduced with permission. This is a big week for everyone who...

Lindsay Oberst · March 23, 2016 · 2 min read

Why India’s First 100% Organic State Matters for the Future of Organic Food

Though we might wish otherwise, progress often starts small and takes time. An organic country and an organic world are...

Lindsay Oberst · February 19, 2016 · 5 min read

Denmark is on its way to becoming an organic country

Imagine a organic country. Does this seem possible or realistic? In the United States, where only 1 percent of U.S....

Lindsay Oberst · January 27, 2016 · 5 min read

10 Ways to celebrate the international year of the pulses

by Danielle Nierenberg and Emily Nink • Originally published by Food Tank 2016 is the United Nations International Year of Pulses...

Lindsay Oberst · January 13, 2016 · 3 min read

2015 Dietary Guidelines: A plate full of politics

By David L. Katz, MD I won’t mince words: in my opinion, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, just released today,...

Lindsay Oberst · January 7, 2016 · 5 min read

Monsanto to be held accountable for crimes against human health and the environment

Originally published by the Organic Consumers Association Global Food, Farming, and Environmental Justice Groups to hold Monsanto Accountable for Crimes...

Lindsay Oberst · December 23, 2015 · 4 min read

Dunkin Donuts will switch to cage-free eggs

By Wayne Pacelle • Originally published on the Humane Society of the United States blog If you don’t think we are...

Lindsay Oberst · December 17, 2015 · 2 min read

Big Food aims to kill mandatory GMO labels before year’s end

By Jason Best • Originally published on TakePart Food makers want the Senate to pass a bill that would make...

Ocean Robbins · December 9, 2015 · 3 min read

The future of genetically engineered crops in the European Union and beyond

On March 11, the European Union, currently made up of 28 countries, signed a new law allowing individual countries to...

Lindsay Oberst · September 5, 2015 · 3 min read

Farmers, Corporations, States Move Toward Cage-Free Future

By Wayne Pacelle • Originally posted on The Humane Society blog On August 19, I announced that The HSUS, the...

Lindsay Oberst · September 2, 2015 · 3 min read

New England Journal of Medicine article calls for labeling of GM foods

In the August 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, two respected experts on pesticides and children’s environmental...

Lindsay Oberst · August 22, 2015 · 2 min read

News: Idaho “Ag-Gag” Law Struck Down as Unconstitutional

By Will Potter • Originally published on Green Is The New Red A U.S. District Court has struck down Idaho’s “ag-gag” law...

Lindsay Oberst · August 7, 2015 · 3 min read