Sustainability vs. science in dietary guidelines?
ICYMI, California becomes the first state to restrict antibiotic use in livestock. In recent days, California’s governor Jerry Brown has signed into law a host of progressive bills, including legislation ensuring the right-to-die, …
Fast food chains are demanding ethical products
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FDA wants to pull back the curtain on antibiotics
Even as more companies announce that they will reduce the use of antibiotics in meat production, the argument about the use of antibiotics in animals continues. One issue is that …
Friday Wrap: 5/15/15 (it’s a palindrome!)
Happy palindrome week (plus)! From May 10th through May 19th, every day is a palindrome. This means that all the dates are symmetrical and read the same backward and forward. …
“Not eating edible weeds is food waste. On farms, these plants are watered and fertilized accidentally, picked deliberately, then composted or discarded. They volunteer in yards, in parks and public …
What Tyson’s big antibiotic announcement might really mean
Last week, Tyson Foods made big news when it announced that it was “striving” to eliminate the use of human antibiotics in the production of its chicken. Tyson is one …
Tyson to stop giving chickens antibiotics used by humans
A harbinger of things to come? Tyson Foods – the nation’s largest poultry producer – announced it will stop “feeding its chickens any antibiotics that are used in human medicine.” …
McDonald’s USA: new antibiotics policy, sourcing initiatives
McDonald’s USA has announced several new policies relating to food sourcing. The chain said it will only source chicken raised without antibiotics “that are important to human health.” (Farmers who …
Survey of feedlot dust: antibiotics, bacteria found
Background: The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance has become a global health threat; it is often linked with the overuse of antibiotics in industrial-scale animal operations. Excreted antibiotics can …
On the eve of President Obama’s State of the Union address, Mark Bittman provides his own take on the “State of Food” in a piece appearing in the New York …