New York City banned plastic foam food containers, which can take up to 500 years to break down. Also, the state raised the minimum wage to $8 an hour—still not enough.
Seafood consumption in the U.S. continued its seven-year decline. And for the first time in over a century, Americans are eating more chicken than beef. We’re generally eating fewer animals, in part because of reports such as this new one from Time noting that “livestock production may have a bigger impact on the planet than anything else.” Taxing meat as an attempt to discourage consumers to buy it could be an effective way to reduce methane emissions.
A hog farm in southeast Iowa run by a Carlyle, Ill., corporation has become a battleground between environmental groups, state officials responsible for protecting the environment and modern farming operations that consolidate thousands of animals in confinement buildings.
Independent ranchers and animal rights activists don’t agree about much, except that it’s time to stop using federal tax dollars to support the meat lobby.
The global food challenge in 18 graphics.
McDonald’s has shut down its much-pilloried McResources site. Some of its greatest hits include bashing its own unhealthy cuisine and suggesting a budget for its employees that allotted $20 for health care a month.
A Seattle woman ate nothing but Starbucks for a year. She spent an average of $500 to $600 a month on meals and probably ate nothing even halfway decent.
Eight million acres of China’s farmland is too polluted to grow crops.
Dietary supplements now account for nearly 20 percent of drug-related liver injuries.
via:http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/what-were-reading-now-11/
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