| Mar 26, 2014 | Food / FarmingI know I shouldn’t be, but I am shocked by Americans’ laziness. We look for the closest parking spot to the gym so that we don’t have to walk those extra few steps. We indulge in watching more cooking shows, yet actually cook less than ever. We...
| Mar 12, 2014 | Food / FarmingAs a Californian, I have not gotten too much sympathy from friends and family about our rotten weather this winter. Yes, I said rotten weather. It’s been incredibly pleasant— except for a few times when the temperature crept up to 90 — but we’ve hardly had...
| Mar 5, 2014 | Food / FarmingBig chicken-processing companies generate 1.5 billion pounds of fowl waste annually in Delmarva (the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia tri-state area), and it’s choking the Chesapeake Bay. Each year, Marylanders pay a small tax that goes toward the Chesapeake Bay...
| | Food / FarmingThe Food and Drug Administration recently came out with a sweet surprise. Its proposed new nutrition label will finally give us a bit of key information we need to understand our food: the amount of added sugars. If you look at a nutrition label now, you will see how...
| Feb 11, 2014 | Food / FarmingThe delightfully naughty movie star Mae West liked to joke: “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.” Less delightful are some of the purity claims of such food manufacturing giants as PepsiCo, which has long marketed a line of its Frito-Lay snack foods as...
| Feb 4, 2014 | Food / FarmingYou think bipartisan support is rare? Not when there’s cuts to poor people in there. The Farm Bill again cuts nutrition assistance And barely got any liberal resistance. More subsidies to support the Big Farmer Gets a signature from Barack...
