by Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University
BPA has become a classic example of how point of view influences decisions about low-dose chemicals in the food supply for which the science is uncertain.
If you are a believer in the “precautionary principle,” any suggestion of harm is enough to support banning BPA until it is proven safe. Continue reading
By Deirdre Imus, president and founder of The Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center at Hackensack University Medical Center
As parents, we try to keep our kids safe every moment of their lives. Whether by instilling in them the difference between good and evil or by making sure they know to look both ways before crossing the street, protecting children comes in many different forms.
For more than a decade, I’ve been working tirelessly to keep my kid and yours safe from the harm inflicted by environmental factors—whether floating in the air, swimming through the water supply, or injected into our foods. Continue reading
By Kaid Benfield, director of sustainable communities at Natural Resources Defense Council
Over the past 50 years, our average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history. That is fact, not opinion. Scientists say that under current trends, average US temperatures could be 3 to 9 degrees higher by the end of the century. Continue reading
By Tim Schwab, researcher at Food & Water Watch
The American Standard Champion 4 toilet is something to behold. The simple perch, elegant design, and accelerator flush valve make it, I’m told, a superior vessel for waste evacuation. And the technical department at American Standard has made some convincing videos to prove their point, demonstrating the Champ’s flawless devouring of 24 golf balls, 8 large hot dogs, or 100 cotton balls. Continue reading
by Sarah Zimmerman, GRACE communications
There is no expression of love more classic than a dozen red roses. Every Valentine’s Day, more than 100 million roses are sold in the United States. Since the Language of Flowers developed in the Victorian Era, they have signified passionate, romantic love, over time becoming one of the most iconic images of February 14th.
By Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University.
On the plastic bottle front, much is happening.
BPA plastics are banned from the European market, only to be replaced by other plastics that seem to have their own problems. These are detailed in three articles in Food Additives and Contaminants dealing with the migration of chemicals from baby bottles. Continue reading
Posted in Food Politics, Healthy Home & Garden
Tagged industrial food system, plastic
By Marion Nestle, PhD, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University.
Food Navigator reports that UK experts are demanding public debate and regulation of nanomaterials in foods. Without that, they warn, nanotechnology risks “facing the same fate as genetically modified (GM) foods in consumer perceptions.” Continue reading
Posted in Food Politics, Healthy Home & Garden
By Sandor Katz, author and fermentation experimentalist
The following excerpt appears in Wild Fermentation:
I recently met a Tennessee neighbor, Nancy Ramsay, and when the conversation inevitably turned to fermentation, I learned that she loves to eat and make kimchi. She knows kimchi well, having spent 13 years living in Korea as a missionary (though her perspectives have changed radically since that time, and she now is busy writing a book critical of missionaries and the negative impact they have on the cultures they attempt to convert).
Posted in Healthy Diet, Healthy Home & Garden
Pierre Delforge, Senior Engineer, Natural Resources Defense Council
The biggest energy and environmental impact of using Google and other internet services may not be where you think it is. The rapid spread of large data centers that power the internet is responsible for a growing energy use and share of carbon emissions. It is tempting to jump to the conclusion that the internet and all its services stand in the way of energy and environmental sustainability. Not necessarily so! Continue reading
By Kate Fried, senior communications manager at Food & Water Watch
In my time working for Food & Water Watch I’ve learned quite a bit about the risks posed to consumers through the products we use everyday. It’s also taught me that the government can’t always be trusted to keep us safe, and that products sometimes enter stores before it’s been proven that they won’t mess up our endocrine systems or cause us to develop cancer. Those of you who have been following our triclosan campaign may appreciate this too. Continue reading
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