Tag: Food
The energy and food crisis is far worse than most Americans realize
Whenever there’s an energy crisis, it can quickly become an everything crisis. by Richard Heinberg May 18, 20212 Everyone who owns a gasoline-burning car has noticed that fuel prices have shot up in recent weeks. And…
EPA bans all food uses of neurotoxic pesticide Chlorpyrifos
‘Long overdue’ “Finally, our fields are made safer for farmworkers and our fruits and vegetables are safer for our children.” by Jessica Corbet, Common Dreams August 18, 2021 Public health experts and labor rights advocates…
Lost jobs and rising hunger: St. Mary’s Food Bank shifts gears during COVID-19
We’re serving 1,000 families a day. That means we need a box of food for 4,000 people a day. This is why volunteers are very important. We have two volunteer shifts a day. One starts at…
Food waste in the time of COVID-19: The real reason to cry over spilt milk
Let’s focus on the economic systems that allowed such waste to be created in the first place, while causing needless pollution, animal suffering and threats to human health. Essay by Dipika Kadaba, The Revelator April 14,…
How to support your local farmers as restaurants and farmers markets close
As the virus has small, local farms scrambling for income streams, community-supported agriculture (CSA) is one way to support them. By April M. Short April 14 The global outbreak of COVID-19, and the collective effort to…
When restaurants close, Americans lose much more than a meal
The Big Texan restaurant, Amarillo, Texas. Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress by Rebecca L. Spang, Indiana University March 20 Arnold Schwarzenegger tweeted a video of himself on March 15 saying: “No more restaurants.” Seated in…
Flagstaff Family Food Center updates request for help
The national and local response to COVID-19 is rapidly changing and the Flagstaff Family Food Center is being responsive to these changes. Here is our most recent update: To comply with CDC guidelines of avoiding gathering…
App delivery as part of the “Care” industry
New Orleans I’m scratching my head trying to figure out what kind of sand platform applications around food delivery are built on. The workers are hardly paid, precarious and unhappy. The restaurants are complaining and…
Modern tomatoes are very different from their wild ancestors – and these researchers found missing links in their evolution
The tomato’s path from wild plant to household staple is much more complex than researchers have long thought. For many years, scientists believed that humans domesticated the tomato in two major phases. Tomatoes’ ancestors looked very…
