GE Salmon Update:Target Signs on to Growing List of Retailers Pledging Not to Sell Genetically Engineered Salmon; FDA ruling expected soon
As reported in Food Safety News Target is the latest retailer to sign a pledge to not sell genetically engineered salmon. The Friends of the Earth Campaign for GE Free Seafood now includes a wide and extensive list of retailers including Aldi (owner of Trader Joes), Trader Joes, Whole Foods, H.E.B. Giant Eagle and Meijer. […]
Michael Pollan and Two Other New York Times Stories You Need to Read
Three stories in the New York Times you shouldn’t miss. Sunday May 19 the newspaper’s environmental reporter Eileen Rosenthal looks at whether its time to ban plastic bags. A great story that combines personal anecdotes everyone can relate to with details and terrific graphics about the huge and unfathomable mess bags are creating. Of course […]
Great Soda Syrup Recipes in Make Your Own Soda
As regular readers know here at NBN we’ve been ‘creating’ our own seltzer for many years but have never had the least bit of interest in purchasing any pre-made syrups made for our Soda Stream. Yuck. But recently we received a copy of Anton Nocito’s book that contains so many great tasting syrup recipes […]
Media Watch Week of May 20th
Two informative pieces from Bill Moyers. His interview with David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz on Toxic Information and advice on how to avoid toxic chemicals at home. Forbes Magazine story claiming organic lobbyists are anti-biotech and hypocritical Food Safety News on USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s remarks to the Organic Trade Association Policy Conference […]
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 […]
