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The local recycling of juice and milk cartons, produced by packaging company Tetra Pak South Africa, has created 18 jobs and removed the need to ship the recovered cartons to India for recycling, says Tetra Pak South Africa environmental manager Rodney…

One of the great tragedies of failing to act boldly to restrict greenhouse gases is that it will turn the great abundance humanity has known into scarcity.  As part of our series on climate change and food insecurity, our Climate Progress Intern, Tyce Herrman, takes a look at some predictions on the rising price of [...]

We’re in the interlude between winter and spring right now; by the calendar, we’re into spring, but the local vegetable offerings would seem to indicate otherwise. Strawberries, asparagus, and ramps are on the horizon; tomatoes and corn seem m…

DANGEROUS IMPORTED FOODS The whole world is scared of China making ‘black hearted goods’. Can you differentiate which one is made in the USA , Philippines , Taiwan or China ? For your information … the first 3 digits of the barcode is the country code wherein the product was made. Sample: all barcodes that Continue reading →

Bloom: “2% of all US energy goes to food we’re throwing away.” Figure 2 shows that the per capita food loss in Europe and North-America is 280-300 kg/year. In Sub- Saharan Africa and South/Southeast Asia it is 120-170 kg/year. The total per capita production of edible parts of food for human consumption is, in Europe Continue reading →

A group of students at Texas A&M University has hit upon a way to farm shrimp and grow a new biofuel crop in a combined process. The project comes from the AgriLife program, which draws from diverse parts of the school including the  Texas Fo…

We’ve been talking a lot about the disease risks associated with factory farms lately.

In addition to spawning epidemics of zoonotic diseases such as bird flu that can “jump” from livestock to humans, industrial farms are contributing to an ou…

Get It Ripe, jae steele’s 2008 cookbook, established her as a credible and charismatic authority on veganism; her holistic nutritionist background and sassy cowpunk sensibility encouraged countless others to “get it ripe.” Her new cookbook un…

Health experts worldwide are alarmed at the reckless use of antibiotics, and fear their overuse is creating a vast army of antibiotic-resistant “superbug” bacteria. Perhaps the biggest villains in the overuse of antibiotics are factory farms that rais…

The Stevens’ moved out of the city to get away from the rat race and who can blame them when they moved onto an idyllic farm and started an organic farm and vineyard.