Last month, two of South Korea’s biggest retailers halted sales of US beef after the discovery of “mad cow” in the US. As a result, South Korean authorities said they will increase checks on beef imports from the US, where … Continue reading →

One of the latest brand names attempting to reel in the rapidly growing health-conscious consumer is Oscar Mayer. Tom Bick, Oscar Mayer’s marketing and advertising director, readily admits consumers are avoiding processed foods, and artificial preservatives. As a result, Kraft … Continue reading →

A family dining at La Fisherman restaurant in Houston, Texas, complained to local media that they were forcibly detained after refusing to pay a mandatory 17% gratuity for parties of more than five. One of the diners, Jasmine Marks, claimed … Continue reading →

WARNING – THE VIDEO EMBEDDED HERE IS NOT FOR CHILDREN – IT DEPICTS EXTREME CRUELTY – VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET – BOYCOTT FACTORY FARMS The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has released yet another undercover video revealing the … Continue reading →

Last year, the CDC estimated that over 1 million salmonella cases occur annually in the United States. Of these cases, approximately 20,000 result in hospitalization and 378 result in death. Based on CDC information, salmonella accounts for almost 30 percent … Continue reading →

Last month, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released the results of an undercover investigation into Kreider Farms, a major factory farm that produces 4.5 million eggs each day for supermarkets such as ShopRite, Price Chopper, Weiss, US … Continue reading →

After the 2008 financial crash, Christopher Toole and Anya Pozdeeva, two former New York bankers disillusioned with the frantic pace perched among Manhattan skyscrapers, founded the Society for Aquaponic Values and Education (SAVE). “We wanted two feet on the ground,” … Continue reading →

Two California farm supervisors charged in the heat-related death of a pregnant teen farmworker who worked as slave labor in the fields, were sentenced to community service and probation, angering farmworker advocates who had called for jail time. Maria Isavel, … Continue reading →

A recent study released by the conservation group Oceana, an international organization working to protect the world’s oceans, found scandalous evidence of seafood fraud in Los Angeles and Orange County, California. According to the report, DNA testing of the 119 … Continue reading →

Oceana, the organization that conducted DNA testing and uncovered the fish mislabeling scandal in California, is looking for volunteer sushi detectives to collect DNA samples, according to the website TakePart. “There’s a huge effort to get people to use their … Continue reading →

In the U.S. effort on the war against drugs, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), introduced a high-yielding but acidic CCN-51 cocoa hybrid to Peruvian farmers in 2002 as an alternative to planting coca, the key ingredient in cocaine. … Continue reading →

Burger King has announced that in five years, all of its eggs and pork will come from cage-free chickens and pigs. Although Burger King would like for consumers to believe the fast-food chain is appealing to rising consumer demand for … Continue reading →

At the beginning of 2012, in yet another illustration of central planning lunacy, a child care provider at West Hoke Elementary School in North Carolina, confiscated a four-year-old’s homemade lunch because the school told her the lunch her mother packed … Continue reading →

April 20th marked the second anniversary of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, where roughly five million barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico. Additionally, BP used nearly 2 million gallons of toxic Corexit dispersants to … Continue reading →

Since 1974, Kinder Surprise Eggs have combined the sale of a chocolate egg with a surprise toy inside. And since its launch, nearly 30 billion eggs have been sold all over the world with more than 8,000 different toy surprises. … Continue reading →

More than 18,000 workers threaten to strike at Hostess Brands, the maker of abominations such as Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, which could finally put an end to some of the most unhealthy snacks on the planet. The International … Continue reading →

How is it that the first world has an oversupply of food, while 1 in 7 in the world go malnourished? How are traders in Chicago responsible for the starvation of Africans? It’s complicated. To figure out the answer you need … Continue reading →

According to a growing number of scientific studies [pdf], artificial food dyes contain human carcinogens, and are linked to adverse behavior in children. And yet every year, manufacturers release 15 million pounds or more of synthetic dyes into U.S. foods. … Continue reading →

The number of Americans on Food Stamps is at the highest level in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s (SNAP) history. Over 46 Million Americans, or 1 in 7 depend on government assistance to eat. Most SNAP participants are children, the … Continue reading →

According to a story initially featured in the local North Dakota news, Stacy Knutson, a waitress at Fryn’ Pan in Moorhead, MN, will be allowed to keep a $12,000 cash tip left by a Fryn’ Pan customer. Knutson was working … Continue reading →

A San Francisco judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit in California that sought to prohibit McDonald’s from using toys in Happy Meals as a marketing ploy to entice children to eat at the fast-food chain. The lawsuit — which did … Continue reading →

Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, recently cited two new scientific studies claiming poultry on factory farms are routinely fed caffeine, active ingredients of Tylenol and Benadryl, banned antibiotics and … Continue reading →

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rejected a request to ban BPA from cans and other packaging because the agency claims opponents didn’t provide enough data to support a rule change, despite literally hundreds of recent studies linking BPA … Continue reading →

The Center for Food Safety (CFS) submitted a record-breaking one million public comments to the Food and Drug Administration requesting that the agency require labeling of genetically engineered foods. More than 450 organizations, businesses and associations united in support of … Continue reading →

The Smoking Gun, a website that gathers information from court files nationwide, and from government and law enforcement sources through Freedom of Information requests, recently reported on an event involving the sale of sex in exchange for cheeseburgers. According to … Continue reading →

A nightclub in Montgomery, Alabama plans on hosting a “Food Stamp Friday” party on April 6. An invitation for the party obtained by The Daily Caller indicates patrons of the Rose Supper Club in North Montgomery will be charged just … Continue reading →

The social media uproar and an online petition that drew hundreds of thousands of supporters has forced Beef Products Inc., the maker of “Pink Slime”, to suspended operations at all but one plant. Beef Products will suspend operations at plants … Continue reading →

A huge problem for French wine sales in the US (and Sake…Sake producers…read this article and do as the French have done)  is verbage. The majority of Amercians are simply not familiarized with terms like Bordeaux or Burgundy. It’s really … Continue reading →

Before surrendering himself to the low-security federal prison in Littleton, Colorado, former Illinois Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich stopped for one last meal at the 50’s-style restaurant Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, [see video] where Freddy’s philosophy is to “Love, obey … Continue reading →

Government regulation to prevent corporate monopolies, or to enforce pollution violations, child labor laws, and tax evasion is one thing, but petty state legislation limiting where food trucks and lunch wagons can operate is pure idiocy — as in this … Continue reading →

I just got a message from one of my old wine industry buddies. There’s always some silly, idiotic legislation waiting to be passed to make their lives a living hell. This is one of them. If this proposed legislation passes; … Continue reading →

According to the USDA, the number of Americans using Food Stamps via the Supplemental nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), rose in December of 2011 to a now-historic high of 46,514,238, an increase of more than a quarter million Americans from November’s … Continue reading →

Under forthcoming new USDA rule changes, Monsanto and other seed companies will get speedier regulatory reviews of their genetically modified crops. Michael Gregoire, a USDA deputy administrator, said the goal is to cut by half the time needed to approve … Continue reading →

In yet another example of central planning idiocy complements of the Nanny state, the U.S. Army has enacted a new mess hall labeling system that places warning labels on desserts and fried foods, and soda machines have been replaced with … Continue reading →

According to a report from Harvard, pasteurized milk from factory farms may be associated with hormone-related cancers because of the industrial agricultural practice of milking a cow throughout pregnancy. The Havard report claims milk from a cow in the late … Continue reading →

According to a recent U.S. government report, America spends roughly 2 percent of GDP on infrastructure, about half what it did 50 years ago. Europe spends around 5 percent and China 9 percent. Reuters claims the United States has fallen … Continue reading →

According to freshman Rep. Bob Morris, an Indiana Republican representing Fort Wayne, Girl Scouts and the cookies they sell, promote communism, lesbianism and subvert traditional American family values. In a letter Morris wrote to Republican House colleagues obtained by the … Continue reading →

WNET’s John Farley comments on the still pervasive inequity in and around restaurant industry kitchens. “It’s an incredibly male dominated culture,” said Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of the labor advocacy group, Restaurant and Opportunities Center, and the former executive director of … Continue reading →

According to Louisiana oysterman Terrance M. Shelley, the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has destroyed the oyster market in Louisiana, as well as the quality of any remaining oysters. Shelley, whose family has 18,000 acres of … Continue reading →

The USDA recently approved Monsanto’s genetically engineered Bt sweet corn which will be sold on the ear in the produce section of grocery stores. This is the agri-giant’s first GMO corn product made available directly to consumers. Natural News claims … Continue reading →