Californians Could Vote to Give Themselves the Measles
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This fall, Californians may have the opportunity to vote on a catch-all ballot initiative that would ban genetically modified organisms and get rid of school vaccination requirements. But that’s not all. The so-called California Clean Environment Initiative would also prohibit the use of 300 substances,…
The Price-Fixing Scandal Rocking Big Chicken
buhanovskiy/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The biggest poultry processors in the United States face widespread allegations that they colluded to raise prices over the course of 10 years in the $30 billion broiler chicken market. In just three weeks, two grocery retailers and the country’s two biggest food…
Here’s the Worst, Anti-Science Idea of the Week from the Republican Congress
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a hearing this week, Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Texas) lashed out at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the group that assesses cancer risk for the UN’s World Health Organization. He accused it of conducting “cherry-picked science,” which, he declared “raises questions about why IARC…
USDA Chief to People on Food Stamps: Get a Job
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. According to a recent US Department of Agriculture report, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly called food stamps) “increasingly serves the working poor.” Indeed, among working-age SNAP recipients, 57 percent either work or are seeking employment, and 22 percent are disabled. Even so, USDA chief Sonny…
In its Quest to Kill Regulations, Trump’s EPA May Allow Teenagers to Handle Farm Pesticides Again
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In its ongoing zeal to nix regulations, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has yet another one in its crosshairs: a rule banning minors from applying pesticides on farms. In December, amid the frenzied debate over the GOP tax overhaul, the EPA announced in a release…
Thank Hippies for These 6 Food Trends
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Toward the end of the 1977 classic film Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s straight-laced character squints at the menu of an ultra-groovy Los Angeles restaurant before submitting his order: “I’m going to have the alfalfa sprouts and a plate of mashed yeast.” Hippie food, the rough-and-tumble cuisine…