About Food Tank. Our food system is broken. Some people don’t have enough food, while others are eating too much. There’s only one way to fix this problem—and it starts with you and me. Food Tank: The Food Think Tank is for the 7 billion people who have to eat every day. We will offer solutions and environmentally sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty by creating a network of connections and information for all of us to consume and share.
Food Tank is for farmers and producers, policy makers and government leaders, researchers and scientists, academics and journalists, and the funding and donor communities to collaborate on providing sustainable solutions for our most pressing environmental and social problems. As much as we need new thinking on global food system issues, we also need new doing. Food Tank will highlight hope and success in agriculture. Press and other inquiries: View Danielle’s Bio Download Food Tank materials: Food Tank informational flyer Food Tank logo (png) Blog | Eat Drink Politics. How Big Chicken Took Over America Last month, an unusual scuffle played out between two federal agencies over a controversial proposal by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to increase the speed of kill lines for poultry in slaughterhouses. But with testing from Consumer Reports last year revealing that 97 percent of raw chicken breasts purchased at retailers are contaminated with harmful bacteria, and with poultry workers already suffering from numerous job-related injuries, advocacy groups are vigorously opposed to the idea.
The rule would also reduce the number of USDA inspectors required to ensure food safety, transferring some of that responsibility to the chicken and turkey companies themselves. Boston Law School Sells Out to Big Alcohol Front Group By Jason Blanchette and Michele Simon Overconsumption of alcohol remains the third largest cause of preventable death in the United States, causing roughly 88,000 Americans to die prematurely each year.
Continue reading → Grist | Environmental News, Commentary, Advice. Green Food. TreeHugger Latest Stories in Green Food Vermont poised to enact mandatory GMO-labeling April 21, 5:35 PM by Margaret Badore in Green Food The state may soon require foods with genetically modified organisms be labeled. Hydroponic farm in Brooklyn serves up fresh veggies for food bank April 15, 3:31 PM by Margaret Badore in Green Food CAMBA’s food pantry feeds 5,000 hungry Brooklyn residents, with help from a very local farm. Reprise: Have a green sustainable Seder tonight April 14, 5:20 PM by Lloyd Alter in Green Food The Jewish seder is a big meal with a lot of courses; Here are some ideas for making it a little more sustainable.
Best of TreeHugger This is what Earth will look like if we melt all the ice National Geographic has a good interactive map showing what 216 feet of sea ... Civil Eats | Promoting critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems. Eatocracy - CNN.com Blogs. News & Blog. By Genna Reed Last week, Representative Mike Pompeo (R-KS) introduced the “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2014” (HR 4432), a brainchild of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) that would serve as a real road block to the thousands of people who have been fighting for the right to know what’s in their food. This piece of legislation would make voluntary (not mandatory) labeling for genetically engineered foods the national standard, ensure that GMOs can be ambiguously labeled as “natural,” create its own rules for non-GMO labeling and, most heinously, preempt all state efforts to require labeling of GMO foods.
We have been aware of the GMA’s plot to move into the GMO labeling policy world since Politico leaked its proposed bill language in January and then the GMA launched its “Safe and Affordable Food Coalition” in February. So, what is the GMA and why is it so powerful that congressmen do its bidding?