Chipotle Now Labels GMO Ingredients
Chipotle is the company that changed the fast food game when it introduced Niman Ranch pork into its pork carnitas and showed narrow-minded number crunchers that despite a higher price with Niman pork, sales grew with the use of a top quality ingredients; its fleet response to growing concerns over GMO food is equally impressive. It [...]
Video: Not Safe For People Who Can’t Stand Bullsh–
Watch the video here from a coalition of beverage companies that oppose increased government oversight on sodas and more.
Media Watch Week of May 13
Bloomberg News interview with Whole Foods CEO Walter Robb. Supermarket News on Asian supermarkets reach for 2nd and 3rd generation young shoppers. ”With no single ethnic food retailer dominating the U.S., the race is on to capture new markets where second- and third-generation shoppers are more likely to patronize chains like Whole Foods Market or [...]
SFW Flanhunt Offers GPS Based Hookup Site For Hungry and Frisky Guys
FLANHUNT is the first hookup site for men who like men who like to cook great food. The developer of the application, who prefers to remain anonymous but will be tweeting under the alias Erica Von Marzipan, said through a spokesperson that “I’m happy to leave the self-celebratory proclamations to the loud-mouth Grindr guy. [...]
As Expected Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Monsanto in Seed Patent Case
In our piece about fighting in the organic foods industry we said context was everything. Well, we’re having a hard time thinking that despite Monsanto’s expected victory,this isn’t something way less than half-full; this isn’t something really, really bad. Its hard to put a good spin on this, even though the Supreme Court ruling was [...]
Danone, Stonyfield Yogurt Corporate Parent, Buys Happy Family Organic Baby Food Maker
French Group Danone, owner of Stonyfield Yogurt announced today that it was acquiring a 90% share of organic baby food and children’s food maker Happy Family. The company, originally called Happy Baby has been a strong innovator in the baby food category, introducing the first frozen organic baby food line, before abandoning that approach and [...]
Media Watch Week of May 6
Washington Post story on the wide benefits of antioxidants and the myths about them. Hain Celestial Foods discusses how potential federal GMO labeling rules would impact CPG brands far more negatively than companies like Hain. Seems like a bit of reach as this legislation, though one that should have already been implemented on a national level, [...]
Gay Controversy Dooms Boy Scouts Green Building Effort; Radiant Floor Heating Merit Badge Suspended
Continued controversy over the Boy Scouts of America’s recent announcement that it would allow openly gay scouts but prohibit openly gay scout leaders and volunteers prompted the US Department of Energy to rescind its partnership with BSA. Last fall the Department of Energy and the Scouts begun plans to for a series of new [...]
Grist’ Story Offers Insight for Organic Industry Spats between the OCA and OTA
Context is everything. Half-full or half-empty? All or nothing? White or black? New York Mets or New York Yankees? (Okay, forgive that last comparison but if you lived in my brain, you’d understand). Seriously, despite my degree in political science, my passion for policy debate (okay, arguing) and my progressive political DNA I can’t [...]
Hollywood Squares Major Influencer, Says Pew Research Study, Last of the Boomers, What Went Wrong?
The Pew Research Center recently announced the major conclusion’s from its just published cross-cultural, demographic hagio-analytic report: Last of the Boomers, What Went Wrong? Among the studies most surprising findings is the conclusion that four leading macro-cultural events can be identified as primary factors in “creating the generation that has wrought economic and spiritual malaise like [...]
Monsanto’s Man in the Senate, Missouri’s Roy Blunt
Mother Jones details the previously mysterious Senator who added a rider to unrelated legislation protecting Monsanto and the few other GMO seed companies. The rider, which was a surprise last minute addition to a bill unrelated to agriculture or GMO oversight mandates that the USDA ”ignore federal court decisions that block the agency’s approvals of [...]
John Mackey Debates Ayn Rand, Self-Interest and Narcissism
As those regular readers know we have a love hate affair with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. While we wish more corporations were like Whole Foods, espousing values for more than just stockholders and a triple bottom line approach (people, planet and profit) to success, there aren’t. If there were, Mackey’s consistent willingness to step on [...]
Whole Foods Scores Another Green Coup, Announces Rooftop Greenhouse in Gowanus Brooklyn Store
Fresh after what many called the company’s groundbreaking rules regarding vendors and GMO transparency, Whole Foods scored another big green thumbs up with its Monday announcement that Gotham Greens would operate what the company stated is “the nation’s first commercial scale greenhouse farm integrated within a retail grocery space.” Gotham Greens current hydroponic operations in [...]
Nostalgic for 80′s NYC, Longing for Cannoli & Thoughts About NYC Green Festival
Maybe its because I used to drive a cab in Manhattan in the 1980′s when the city was broke and tranny hookers and sex clubs commandeered the late night meat market streets where before the Apple Store, Japanese designer boutiques and oh-so-haute hotelier lured crowds day and night. Like more and more of Manhattan, and [...]
Wal-Mart’s Growing Grocery Power and Why We Can’t Shop To A Better Economy
We don’t often point our proverbial internet fingers and say read this and pass it on,but today is one of those days. According to the article, published in partnership with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, “Having gained more say over our food supply than Monsanto, Kraft, or Tyson, Walmart has been working overtime to present itself as a [...]
Dangers of Tweeting While Eating Thai Noodles and Pondering GMOs; But Monsanto Still Sucks
A funny thing happened while reading the NY Times opinion page and eating my favorite noodle soup at King of Thai Noodles #2 on Clement Street. (Which Yelp unfairly gives only 3.5 stars but that is an issue for another time). NBN tweeted about a NY Times piece detailing Monsanto’s efforts at convincing Vietnam [...]
Brilliant Video on the Costs of Bottled Drinking Water as Soda Stream Controversies Bubble Up
It’s hard to fathom that not too long ago analysts once estimated that the market for bottled water was extremely small. After all why would people in countries with clean water supplies pay for something that they can get for free. But of course the human animal works in mysterious ways, especially when marketing is [...]
Best-Selling Author John Berendt’s New York Kitchen
Our featured celebrity is the man who made history with his non-fiction masterpiece, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. While best known for his literary blockbuster, the non-fiction Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt began his career as a classic New York City journalist. At Harvard he worked on the [...]
Green Energy News-NYC and Garbanzo Bean Growers Announce Plan to Fuel Taxis on New FalafelFuel
In a press conference at New York’s City Hall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Taxi & Limousine Commissioner Matthew W. Daus and Norharvest Bean Growers Association Norbert Johannson unveiled a plan to fuel all taxicabs and car service vehicles in the city on a new bio-fuel made from garbanzo beans.“For too long chick peas have been unfairly [...]
Media Watch Week of April 28th
The Sunday New York Times story The Brain — Our Food Traffic Controller should not be missed In a story that should be getting wider circulation, author Hannah Wallace details how to feed a family of three all-organic foods on a food-stamp budget, published in all places Bon Apetit Blog. Take a look at Wallace’ [...]
