Forget Organic Food, Go for Growth

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Sep 27, 2018 Using less land and having more high-yield farms could be the best answer to the planet’s needs. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Whole Foods Co-CEOs’ Mea Culpa: ‘We Made Some Mistakes’

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Jul 2, 2015 Now that Whole Foods' tag-team CEOs Walter Robb and John Mackey have admitted that "inadvertent" mistakes were made in raising prices on products in New York City stores, it remains to be seen whether consumers will buy their explanation. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Consumer Agency Alleges Whole Foods Has ‘Worst Case of Mislabeling’

Staff / Truthdig Jun 25, 2015 From 80 extra cents for a package of pecan panko to a $14.84 overcharge on coconut shrimp, Whole Foods Market may be living up to its widely used nickname, "Whole Paycheck." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Why Organic Farmers Are Angry With Whole Foods

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Jun 13, 2015 The chain's latest move is another strike against its holier-than-thou image. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What the U.S. Can Learn From Cuba’s Food Revolution

Reese Erlich / Truthdig Dec 30, 2014 Long before President Obama's historic opening, American and Cuban foodies have been exchanging cutting edge ideas in agriculture and health. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Radical U.N. Report Promotes Democratic Control of Food and an End to Corporate Domination

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Mar 20, 2014 A new report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the "Right to Food" took aim at the entire basis on which food is produced and distributed on a global scale. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

‘America’s Temple of Pseudoscience’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 24, 2014 "You don’t have to schlep all the way to Kentucky in order to visit America’s greatest shrine to pseudoscience," Michael Schulson writes at The Daily Beast. "In fact, that shrine is a 15-minute trip away from most American urbanites." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Higher Education Comes at a High Cost

Staff / Truthdig Sep 10, 2012 Students all over America are defaulting on their student loans, especially those who attended private, profit-making institutions; Democrats' chants about Osama bin Laden's death take us back to George W. Bush's boasts about Saddam Hussein; meanwhile, new scientific studies prove organic produce contains fewer pesticides and bacteria. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

But What Whole Foods Really Always Wanted to Do Is …

Staff / Truthdig Mar 18, 2011 What America really needs is another film festival, especially one sponsored by Whole Paycheck Foods, right? The health food superstore is bringing to theaters across the country a series of films about, you know, the planet and eating right and stuff . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Food Safety Bill Stalls

Staff / Truthdig Sep 18, 2010 If you need yet another example of how Washington just doesn't quite work, a bill that aims to curb food contamination has stalled despite having broad bipartisan support, plus backing from President Obama and industry and consumer groups, and the fact that the House passed its version of the legislation more than a year ago. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Behind the Label

Staff / Truthdig Aug 29, 2009 An industry group of organic and natural food producers is attempting to develop a standard for non-genetically modified and organic food. Existing labels declaring food "organic" are based as marketing devices, not on an actual standard of rigorous testing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jane Ciabattari on the Delights of the Rural Life

BLANK Jul 10, 2009 Is the pastoral arcadia of the country life far from derivatives and emissions and the other excreta of our modern cities all that it's cracked up to be? Two new memoirs give readers who don't want to stir from their armchairs to take up farming an insider's look. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )