Earlier this month, when the recommendations of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” Commission were| Food Safety News
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released its 20-page Strategy Report on Tuesday, indicating that the federal government will pursue a range of food and food safety policies simultaneously, rather than the traditional one-at-a-time approach. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remains as controversial as ever, despite holding down the position... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
The Campbells’s Company will stop using artificial food dyes in 2026, joining several other companies that have made similar promises in response to a request from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In announcing the switch, the 155-year-old company said it has used many colors derived from... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
The FAO and WHO are facing increasing demands for scientific evaluations at a time when there has been a “significant” reduction in donor funding. The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) secretariat made the comments at the latest meeting of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods. A... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Calling for the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., almost two dozen groups say his policies and actions are a threat to food safety programs and other public health services. The 22 groups issued a joint statement on Sept. 3 citing 10 areas of concern... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
President Trump has again nominated Mindy Brashears to be USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety. Brashears served as Undersecretary for Food Safety for| Food Safety News
In contrast to an article on gender politics being the lead article in the Spring 1993 edition of the Vegan Society’s magazine, the Spring 1993 edition of the Vegetarian Society’s quarterly VQ magazine had a lead story about Genetic Engineering. This was written by Jane Brophy, its dietitian at the time and opens with a … Continue reading "Genetic Engineering"| Warwick Vegan
Here I am with my annual reminder about how unusual American Thanksgiving is as a national meal. As nations were created from the eighteenth century on, all kinds of readily… The post The Anti-Aristocratic Thanksgiving Meal appeared first on Rachel Laudan.| Rachel Laudan
For a national meal, Thanksgiving is really rather extraordinary. It is not a public event, it is not showy, it is a home-cooked meal of ordinary ingredients shared by the…| Rachel Laudan
In the 1990s, with its booming culture of culinary newsletters, Johan Mathieson's stood out.| Rachel Laudan
Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education. We try to include articles that have been published recently but will last,| Uneven Earth - Where the ecological meets the political