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Where Are We on Cannabis Edibles (and Drinkables)?
Let's start the new year off with a look at what's happening with Cannabis, a food politics topic because of its edibles. The word is that the market for Cannabis products—including edibles and drinkables—constitutes a the "21st century gold rush," despite their illegal regulatory status in the U.S. → Read More
Where Are We on Cannabis Edibles (and Drinkables)?
Let's start the new year off with a look at what's happening with Cannabis, a food politics topic because of its edibles. The word is that the market for Cannabis products—including edibles and drinkables—constitutes a the "21st century gold rush," despite their illegal regulatory status in the U.S. → Read More
Plant-Based Meat: The Cosmetic Color Problem
Plant-based meats are touted as the technological solution to the health and environmental problems caused by excessive meat-eating. Venture capital is flooding to what seems like a hot new market. → Read More
USDA Makes School Meals More Flexible, Translation: Less Nutritious
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its revised school meal rules. → Read More
Worried About Phthalates: 'Just Don't Eat Foods in Boxes'
The moral of this story is to eat a healthy diet and you don't have to worry about things like phthalates. What is a healthy diet? Unprocessed fruits, vegetable → Read More
How the GMO Industry Gets Journalists to Buy Its Messages
How about convincing journalists that food biotechnology is the solution to the world's food problems and that any criticism of it is a critique of science → Read More
Weed Resistance to Glyphosate on GMO Crops: EPA Needs to Do Better
The EPA Inspector General's Office report explains that glyphosate (Roundup) is used on crops modified to tolerate this herbicide, which kills surrounding weeds → Read More
This Blog No Longer Accepts Comments, Thanks to GMO Trolls
Marion Nestle asked her site managers at Cre8d to block all future comments to Food Politics, due to GMO trolls—people who post deliberately hostile comments. → Read More
Remove My Clip From GMO Propaganda Film
Food Evolution is a slick piece of GMO industry propaganda. If you want a thoughtful discussion of the real issues raised by food biotechnology, look elsewhere. → Read More
Why Was a Drug Used to Euthanize Animals Found in This Dog Food?
The FDA warned pet owners not to feed specific lot numbers of Evanger's canned Hunk of Beef or Against the Grain Grain Free Pulled Beef with Gravy canned dog food → Read More
Should Pregnant Women Eat Fish?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have just issued advice to pregnant women about eating fish. → Read More
Berkeley Soda Tax Is Working
The Berkeley study is good news and a cheery start to the week. → Read More
Carbs vs. Fats: What's the Bottom Line?
Wednesday I explained why "butter is back" is not useful dietary advice, even when studies show that eating butter has little or no effect on disease risk (the total diet and calories are what matter). Now I can say the same thing about low-carbohydrate diets.The debate about whether fat or carbohyd... → Read More
Academies of Science Finds GMOs 'Safe,' But 'More Research Needed'
The National Academies of Science has just released its long-awaited report Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects. I was a reviewer on this report months ago and as far as I can tell it hasn't changed much from when I sent in my comments. Here's what I said: In light of public pola... → Read More
Marion Nestle: 8 Books on Farming and Food That Deserve More Attention
I'm overwhelmed by the avalanche of outstanding books that I run across or that get sent to me. But when forced to choose, I settle on these eight as some of the best writing and original research in the bunch. They deserve much more attention than they've received. 1. Food, Farms and Community: Ex... → Read More
Big Ag Forces Firing of Long-Time Farm News Cartoonist
I love cartoons and was appalled when I read this tweet: Here's the offending cartoon: In a Facebook post the cartoonist, Rick Friday, explained: I am no longer the Editorial Cartoonist for Farm News due to the attached cartoon which was published yesterday. Apparently a large company affiliated w... → Read More
Coca-Cola says its drinks don't cause obesity. Science says otherwise
Soda companies spend generously to convince researchers and health professionals not to worry about health effects from sugary drinks → Read More
Coca-Cola says its drinks don't cause obesity. Science says otherwise
Soda companies spend generously to convince researchers and health professionals not to worry about health effects from sugary drinks → Read More
The Soda Industry's Promises Mean Nothing
Agreeing to decrease soda consumption by 20 percent is easy to do when demand is already falling rapidly → Read More
Types of Sugar 101: Everything You Need to Know About the 20+ Hidden Sugars
Our nutritionist shares what to look out for. → Read More