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IWAKI, JAPAN»The overpowering earthquake and tsunami that ripped through northern Japan in March 2011 took so much from Tatsuo Niitsuma, a commercial fisherman in this coastal c...
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By Agnieszka De Sousa Bloomberg News
The world loses about $400 billion of food before it even gets delivered to stores, according to the United Nations.
Some 14% of all food produced is lost annually, with central and southern A...
Beyond Meat has another high-profile fast-food partner — KFC — to help the faux meat maker tackle a plant-based substitute for a different major protein source: chicken.
KFC, owned by Yum! Brands Inc., will test plant-based nuggets and boneless wings at one of its Atlanta restaurants on Tuesday. Th...
By Kirsten Grieshaber
The Associated Press
Franziska Lienert, a spokeswoman for the company that runs the “To Good To Go” app, uses a tablet to find a restaurant participating with the food-sharing community.
ABERLIN» fter a long day at work, Annekathrin Fiesinger is too tired to consider making ...
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April 7, 2019 at 7:06 pm
Missouri Farm Bureau members were likely startled by the recent “Commentary” in their email queues. The farm bureau’s Eric Bohl reported on his visit to a St. Louis-area Burger King, where the fast food giant is testing a v...
The Denver Post, 11-7-18 Hey, take a gander at your kitchen wastebasket and see all the
money in there.
Statistics come in from several directions to show how much food we regularly waste
(closer-to-the-truth verbs would be “toss” or “throw out”).
In 2015, the last year for which it offe...
Shared from the 2018-07-08 The Denver Post eEdition The U.S. diet is a climate disaster
A new study suggests four easy fixes By Caitlin Dewey
The Washington Post If your household is anything like the American average, your diet generates lots of greenhouse gas emissions: roughly th...
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ES MOINES, IOWA » New rules, decades in the making, that would have required organic meat and egg producers to abide by stricter animal welfare standards were withdrawn by the federal government on Monday, frustrating organic farmers and anim...
At many Chinese restaurants in the United States, there's a special dish called shark fin soup. It's expensive — a delicacy and status symbol in Chinese culture that's served during banquets.
The soup is a hotly debated item in both the scientific and political communities, and it's illegal in 12 s...
Chemicals in Food Children’s diets are an important pathway for exposure to some environmental chemicals and other contaminants. Children may be at a greater risk for exposures to contaminants because they consume more food relative to their body weight than do adults. Additionally, children’s dieta...
The greenhouse gas emissions dataset by researchers at RMIT University and Lancaster University will help consumers and catering firms calculate the environmental impact of the fresh food they eat and the menus they serve.
The new research suggests altering our eating habits for the good of the env...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Even though American consumers throw away about 80 billion pounds of food a year, only about half are aware that food waste is a problem. Even more, researchers have identified that most people perceive benefits to throwing food away, some of which have limited basis in fact.
A stu...
Meat consumption is causing climate change so what will it take to get people to eat less meat?
The question refers to the fact that the meat and dairy industries are a major cause of climate change, so why are people still so stuck on supporting them? Even if we all left the lights on 24/7, the da...
Two percent of American's are vegan. Without traditional sources of protein (meat, dairy, etc), where do they get it from? Tofu, a product of unfermented soy curds, is a main source. This bouncy, little, flavorless chunk of legume based extract is as dangerous (apparently) as it is plain. Many healt...
To eat or not to eat? That is the question.
It seems that many Americans are loving towards their pets, yet eat domesticated livestock without double thinking. How is it that animals smarter than dogs end up on the dinner table? A team of scientists at the University of Melbourne took to find...
It's hard to find the truth nowadays. Even in my interactions with friends and family, the line between fact and fiction can get a little blurry. One can only imagine how hard it must be, relatively speaking, to fathom what is really going on at Monsanto.
If you don't know who Monsanto is, do...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the results of a two year investigation into seafood labeling that found 85 per cent of the seafood it tested was properly labeled.The work included seven hundred DNA samples collected from wholesalers in 14 states, prior to restaurant...
Can ordering a locally sourced, grass-fed steak and an expertly made cocktail in a trendy restaurant actually combat climate change?
That's the goal with the Perennial, a Mid-Market restaurant experiment due in the spring that's the first of its kind in the Bay Area, if not the country.
It's the b...
A worldwide weather phenomenon threatens the future of water and food supplies, as well as the global economy, experts say. Colombia, Pakistan, Somalia, Australia, Guatemala, China and Kenya are just a few of the other countries suffering severe drought conditions.
"The effects of droughts happen...
