Why a New Fisheries Bill Is Being Dubbed the “Empty Oceans Act”
People fish for steelhead in the Grand Ronde River.ed Conklin/ZUMApress.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network. What the farm bill is to terrestrial food production, the fish bill, a.k.a. the Magnuson-Stevens Act, is to the ocean—the law that governs America’s…
Delicious Purple Beans Connected One Chef to Her Family’s Culinary Past
Yardlong BeansBSPollard/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Aileen Suzara reaches into her refrigerator and pulls out a tangle of yardlong beans, a popular ingredient in Filipino cuisine. They look like green beans, except, as the name implies, they’re much, much longer. And instead of green, they’re a deep purple-maroon. When Suzara, a…
A Court Finally Forced the Government to Ban this Gnarly Neurotoxic Pesticide
Crop sprayer spraying pesticides on crops in field.simonkr/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last March, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt abruptly reversed the agency’s own proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide widely used by US farmers. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finally ordered the EPA to…
How “Greens, Beets, and Tomatoes” Turned Around This Historically Black Church
Members of the Pleasant Hope Baptist Church at one of the church’s farmers markets. Black Church Food Security Network Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few years ago, the Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III, the pastor of Baltimore’s historically African American Pleasant Hope Baptist Church, noticed a problem in his…
Too Hot to Cook? These Instant Pot Recipes Will Save You.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the middle of a brutally hot summer—even by Austin standards—I’m not keen to fire up the oven. But at the farmers market, many of the vegetables I encounter are hardy ones that do well with a long, hot roast. There’s loads of butternut squash,…
Your Chicken’s Salmonella Problem Is Worse Than You Think
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Americans love chicken, but it doesn’t always love us back. We eat way more of it than any other meat, and it triggers more foodborne disease outbreak-related illnesses than any other food, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The main…