#GM(Genetically Modified)

A reader, Katya Bloomberg, suggested I take a look at Bored Cow, “animal-free dairy milk” pumpkin spice flavored, no less. Animal-free dairy milk sounds like an oxymoron.  What could this be?  Mostly, the website says what it does not contain. So what’s in this?  The website doesn’t say, but

In case you haven’t been keeping track, virtually all corn, cotton, and soybeans (and sugar beets not on this graph) are genetically modified.  Not only that, but they take up more than half of all cropland in the United States. And half the corn is used to fuel automobiles. Monoculture,

A post on X (the site formerly known as Twitter) displayed this graph. It comes from a policy report published on FarmDocDaily: Concentration of US Principal Crop Acres in Corn and Soybeans. The bottom line: 30% of harvested acres is devoted to corn, and another 30% to soybeans. These, of

I’m working on a new edition of What to Eat and am spending a lot of time in grocery stores seeing what’s new and different since 2006—vastly more than I thought when I signed up to do this project, which is why it is taking a long time to do. One change is in the number of products displaying

Stacy Malkan hasa new report out. This report documents how Monsanto manipulated public opinion to minimize concerns about the potential dangers of glyphosate (Roundup). In this report, we show how pesticide companies not only followed in the footsteps of Big Oil and Big Tobacco, they helped