In The News: Too Good to Go; Six Common Food Additives Banned Abroad; The Injustice of Food Stamps; Homes with a Harvest

Posted on August 9, 2016

Too Good to Go A young group of entrepreneurs in the UK launched their digital app, Too Good to Go, this year to help cut down on the estimated 600,000 tonnes of food that is thrown away by restaurants every … Read More

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Take Action: Stop Monsanto’s Dream Bill; Tell Congress to Fight for a Bill for Better Child Nutrition; Tell the FDA to Remove Carrageenan from Our Food

Posted on June 27, 2016

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Stop Monsanto’s Dream Bill Here we are again, fighting to stop Monsanto from pushing through a bill (Monsanto’s Dream Bill, aka the DARK Act) that would ban states from requiring GMO labeling. This is the final push before Vermont’s GMO … Read More

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iEat Green’s Bhavani Jaroff and Tamar Haspel from the Washington Post, Share a Spirited Conversation on the Safety of GMO’s

Posted on April 14, 2016

Hi Everyone, This morning, my guest on the Progressive Radio Network was Tamar Haspel, the award winning journalist who writes a monthly column for the Washington Post called Unearthed. Her writing focuses on food policy issues, such as GMO’s, biotech, … Read More

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In The News: An Eye-Opening Look At The Additives In Our Food; Upscale U.K. Grocer Sends Leftover Food to Charity; Outcry Over the F.D.A. Approval of Oxycontin for Children

Posted on October 12, 2015

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An Eye-Opening Look At The Additives In Our Food Nowadays, we all know that much of our processed foods that we eat have certain chemical and natural additives that are often hard to pronounce, for example, what is azodicarbonamide? And … Read More

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In The News: Long Island Food & Film Feast, Welcome To The Meatrix, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth?How GMOs Took Over the Food Supply, EWG’s “Dirty Dozen” Guide to Food Additives, Food First in Your Neighborhood

Posted on March 17, 2015

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Welcome To The Meatrix Here is a great video which tells the story of factory farming by a cow name Moofius and a pig named Leo. Inspired by the Matrix movie series, they tell the story in a compelling way … Read More

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