Food Safety
Do you know what's in your food?
With all of the problems in our food system, it can be hard to find the information we need to make smart choices about the food we eat. Use this page to keep up to date on food safety issues, including pesticides, aspartame, flouridation, irraditation, toxic sludge, mad cow disease, and more.
An article published in 2008 on the United Nations website — and recently taken down after it resurfaced and went viral — explains the elite class is not motivated to end world hunger because if everyone is well-nourished, there may be no one willing to provide cheap labor.
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Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using 'agroecological' methods, according to Hilal Elver, UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Her call coincides with a new agroecology initiative within the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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In late March, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its second month, U.N. agencies issued dire warnings regarding the world’s food supply. The war, they said, was pushing food-insecure countries to the brink of a “devastating” hunger crisis. Just two weeks after the war’s start, spot prices for a bushel of wheat
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Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most humans were engaged in agriculture. Our relationship with nature was immediate. Within just a few generations, however, for many people across the world, their link with the land has been severed. Today, many farmers are trapped on chemical and biotech treadmills.
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On Thursday, a lawsuit was filed in California against Skittles-maker Mars Inc., alleging consumers who "taste the rainbow" of sugar "are at heightened risk of a host of health effects for which they were unaware stemming from genotoxicity – the ability of a chemical substance to change DNA."
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A recent global study found almost 90% of free-range egg samples from contaminated sites in developing nations exceeded the European Union (EU) maximum food limits for toxic pollutants, including PCBs linked to cancer, hormone disruption and alterations on brain development. Plastic waste is a major contributor to pollution.
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The impact on human or farm animal health is as yet unknown, but researchers are concerned because microplastics cause damage to human cells in the laboratory and air pollution particles are already known to enter the body and
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How can we heal our relationship with food in the age of artificial food? In response to the crises in our food system we are witnessing the rise of technological solutions that aim to replace animal products and other food staples with lab-grown alternatives.
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After a much-publicized study this year found high levels of a toxic chemical class in food wrappings, many of us are eyeing that pizza or to-go salad in a new light.
Experts warn, though, that we shouldn’t just be concerned about exposure from packaged food. The compounds, PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, appear to be widespread in our food supply . PFAS
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Consumers might be getting shortchanged on the protein found in certain items sold by Beyond Meat, a new lawsuit alleges. According to the proposed class action, a number of claims made by the company concerning both protein and nutritional benefits are “false and misleading.” The complaint alleges that the plant-based meat substitute company “miscalculates and overstates” its products’ protein content and protein quality.
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