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America’s Homogenized Dairy Industry

Most of us know that flavored milk has come under fire for contributing to the slew of diet related health problems in America’s children, including the rising obesity rates among kids.  Last June, with the help of Jamie Oliver, the sugary drinks … [...]

Influence Explored: Kraft splits like an Oreo – which side will the cream stick to?

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Kraft* is splitting into two publicly-traded companies – one that will manage its snack foods business, and another that will manage its North American grocery store business. Aside from … [...]

Pizza with Figs, Caramelized Red Onion and Chevre

Urban Roots, the 3-acre farm where I work, has a small orchard on its property.  A beautiful, if small, collective of trees that bear a lovely alliteration of plums, peaches, pears, and pomegranates.  The odd one out is also the most producti… [...]

Local Food: Do We Just Mean Mileage?

How do you define local? Your city? Driving distance?  Biking distance? Your state?  How about the whole country?Perhaps local is something concrete: 150 miles is an oft-sighted number for local food production.  Congress’ definition of … [...]

Flowers! Flamenco! Food! This Weekend at the Garden

If you need some motivation to visit New York City’s greatest garden, consider us your motivators: This weekend is going to be spectacular! [...]

Urban Chickens in Albany

We’ve posted a few times about the curious topic of urban chickens. The issue really crosses a lot of lines between the public-health origins of zoning; class; sustainability; and modern trends like local food. Local chickens are being debated in… [...]

Jamie Oliver in Los Angeles

Jamie Oliver’s new season kicked off last night.  Since the LA school system has given him the cold shoulder, Jamie started working on the fast food industry — particularly an independent fast food restaurant called Patra’s (owned by, Deno, a fel… [...]

American Diet in a Cool Circle Graph

Civil Eats and UC Berkley have joined forces in ongoing studies about the way Americans eat.  Most recently, they came up with this chart that shows “calories available per day per capita” for Americans.  The chart here gives you an idea of p… [...]

American Diet in a Cool Circle Graph

Civil Eats and UC Berkley have joined forces in ongoing studies about the way Americans eat.  Most recently, they came up with this chart that shows “calories available per day per capita” for Americans.  The chart here gives you an idea of p… [...]

Organic farmers sue Monsanto

Tweet Photo of organic seed packets by Flickr user LollyKnit. Reuters reports that the Public Patent Foundation, a nonprofit organization located at Cardozo School of Law and dedicated to preserv… [...]