Posts tagged: #public health

iEat Green Shares Interview with Maryn McKenna, Author of the “Big Chicken”

Hi All, My guest today was Maryn McKenna, author of the new book,  Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats.  Maryn has been an investigative journalist for most of her career, … Read More

Food Shortages and World Hunger; Fiber Hijacked by Big Food; Musk Brother Invests in Food; New Legislation Hampers DEA From Cracking Down on Opiates;

Rice and Beans: $1.20 in New York, $73 in Haiti “The United Nations World Food Programme just released a report on the cost, relative to average income, of a basic meal such as rice and beans in 33 countries. Someone living in … Read More

Local FARMS Act Helps Kickstart Farm Bill 2018; NY Free Lunch Talk; The Big Bad Biotech Industry;

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Praises Bipartisan Effort Two weeks ago, a bipartisan bill was introduced “to catalyze the 2018 Farm Bill’s investment in programs and policies that spur economic development in rural and food producing communities nationwide.” The bill is called … Read More

Dicamba Affects All; Wasted Release; Pruitt Repeals the Clean Power Plan; SNAP’s 40th Anniversary

DuPont’s Weedkiller Divides Farmers  Dicamba is one of DuPont’s top-selling products; an herbicide used alongside the Monsanto company’s GMO-seeds, which are genetically altered and designed to resist the aforementioned, toxic weed-killing chemical. Yet, rifts between farmers, namely between those who use the herbicide and those who refuse to, peaked … Read More

iEat Green Shares Interview with Nancy Romer, about the Sandy5 March

Hi Everybody, Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing long time activist, Nancy Romer, about the upcoming Sandy5 March, scheduled for October 28th. For those of you wondering why my announced guest, Lierre Keith was not on my show, she … Read More

November 30: Food as Medicine Summit in NYC

We often hear that in the fight to combat chronic diseases, food is the problem; therefore food must also be the solution. Join this summit for an exploration of the greater topic of food as medicine via panel sessions that … Read More

October 17: CUNY Food Policy Forum on Global Food Systems

CUNY Urban Food Policy Forum: Food System Issues and Challenges in the US and China in the Trump and Xi Jinping Era Each country is witnessing challenges to their dominant (and evolving) food systems. How those challenges are able to … Read More

Stop the Dirty Energy Bill; Tell Cargill to Cut Ties with Palm Oil NOW; Stand UP for Medicare For ALL; Help Promote Summer Meals for Kids

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Join Food and Water Watch to Stop Trump-McConnell Dirty Energy Bill 1. Call your Senator at 866-583-2908 and tell them: “As a constituent, I urge my Senator to oppose Senate Bill 1460, the Dirty Energy Bill that would keep us … Read More