Archive for the ‘Science & Technology’ Category
Lab-Grown Meat, The Future Is Soon
Flipping to the resources page of the New Harvest website, a non-profit whose mission is to promote and advance meat substitutes, you find twice as many popular articles on the subject of lab-grown meat as there are technical articles on it. Test-tube meat, in vitro meat, cultured meat or whatever name you call it may [...]
July 20, 2009
Tags: agriculture, bacon, Barack Obama, change, cows, farmers, food event, green, greenhouse gases, innovation Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Science & Technology 
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Factory Farmed Animals Hog All The Antibiotics
70% of the antibiotics produced in the US go to animals that are not sick. Amassed together in small spaces, diseases can flourish and rapidly spread to all of the confined animals so the purveyors of Concentrated Animal Feed Operations (CAFOs) use them as a preventative measure, but also to stimulate growth. Both practices are [...]
July 15, 2009
Tags: agriculture, bacon, Barack Obama, change, farmers, food safety, Health, heroes, policy Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology One Comment
State Of The Food Nation
Food Inc. is out in theaters and is scaring the “bejesus” out of people. Michelle Obama has harvested her garden and made stirring speeches encouraging change in the American diet. Healthcare reforms are being debated in Congress that will effect the way chronic, food-related diseases are treated. There are massive food recalls almost weekly. Our [...]
July 6, 2009
Tags: agriculture, Barack Obama, change, farmers, FDA, food, food safety, Health, nutrition, policy, USDA Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology No Comments
A Big Food Safety Bill Could Hurt Small Farms
Safety inspections protocol has been trending toward ‘one-size-fits-all’, leaving many to wonder how much longer small farms will survive.
The farmers that do survive continually frustrate inspection officials. The Polyface farm, featured in the Omnivore’s Dilemma and more recently in Food Inc., demonstrates how of a lot the minutia aimed at large-scale processors is out of [...]
June 29, 2009
Tags: farmers, food safety, policy, USDA Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology 4 Comments
Watermelon, It’s Your Summertime Stimulant …Err…Refreshment
Let’s start off the summer right by reminding ourselves how good watermelon tastes. It’s about now that watermelon is transforming from dry pink mush into lush, juicy pieces of cool refreshment. Â There is even more reason to love watermelon because it:
is concentrated with a ton of antioxidants
helps reduce inflammation
may help prevent asthma when eaten
is [...]
June 17, 2009
Tags: food, Health, innovation, nutrition, trivia Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology One Comment
Another Study Damns Excess Fructose Consumption
Another study is poised to enrage those embattled against sodas and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). A 10-week study led by Peter Havel from the University of California at Davis had groups of overweight men and women consume 25% of their daily calories from either glucose- or fructose-sweetened beverages. The results were dramatic.
Although there was comparable [...]
May 25, 2009
Tags: food, Health, nutrition, obesity, sugar Posted in: Health, Science & Technology No Comments
Soda Tax, An Idea That’s Bubbling All Over
Everyone is excited about soda taxes, except for the soda companies and me. Kelly Brownell, a longtime obesity researcher at Yale, and Thomas Frieden, the New York City health commissioner wrote a persuasive argument (pdf) for the imposition of soda taxes in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that has [...]
May 22, 2009
Tags: food, food event, Health, nutrition, obesity, soda, subsidies, sugar Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology 2 Comments
Mathematically Finding The Biggest Nutritional Bang For Your Buck
Studies have shown once again that when it comes to cost cutting, diets inevitably suffer. Researchers from University of Washington’s Center for Public Health Nutrition analyzed the USDA’s “Thrifty Food Plan” (TFP) and found it, well, lacking. TFP basically takes the USDA’s healthy eating pyramid and puts it on a tight budget. [...]
May 20, 2009
Tags: food, Health, innovation, nutrition, subsidies Posted in: Health, Science & Technology 3 Comments
Marion Nestle Continues To Fight For The Integrity Of Nutritional Science
Nutritionist and food safety activist extraordinaire Marion Nestle wrote a sternly worded email in response to a letter of nomination from the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) to join the Board of Directors of the Smart Choices program. She declined, explaining her reasons in an open letter that she posted to her blog:
Marion Nestle: Smart [...]
May 18, 2009
Tags: education, Health, heroes, marketing, nutrition, policy Posted in: Health, Science & Technology No Comments
Will We Say Cheerio To Cheerios Health Claims?
The FDA is cracking down on General Mills’ health claim on their Cheerios boxes. The claim, which is rather prominently displayed, says eating Cheerios will lower your cholesterol by 4% in 6 weeks. Even if “clinical trials” have shown such improvement, the issue is that General Mills is making a claim that its product works [...]
May 15, 2009
Tags: change, FDA, food safety, Health, marketing, policy Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology One Comment
