A basic ingredient in your caramel-colored sodas might give you cancer.
The F.D.A. might finally make some tweaks to nutrition labels, which have been the same for the past 20 years.
Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, died of COPD. He is the fifth Marlboro Man to perish. And some health officials have begun to predict the end of cigarette smoking in America. Maybe that’s why CVS plans toend sales of tobacco products by Oct. 1, giving up $2 billion in annual sales. Could soda be next?
Working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. householdsthat rely on food stamps.
Flatulent cows started a fire at German dairy farm.
Monsanto acknowledges that Seminis, the largest developer and grower of vegetable seeds in the world, has no new GM vegetables in development, reverting instead to good old-fashioned crossbreeding. The ag giant plans to engineer RNA interference (RNAi) technology, a recently discovered way to turn off certain genes to kill certain insects.
Seventeen California communities could run out of water soon because of its epic drought, the state could lose $5 billion in agricultural profit this year, and 500,000 acres of farmland could go unplanted. Here are 18 things you should know about it.
McDonald’s efforts to become the new Starbucks have not been as smashing as the company once hoped. And McDonald’s Canada released a video detailing how it makes its Chicken McNuggets. Not coincidentally, fast food workers told a Reddit forum what people should never, ever eat. Chicken nuggets and Wendy’s chili make the list.
As many as 40 children at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City had their lunches seized and thrown away because their parents had fallen behind on payments.
via:http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/what-were-reading-now-13/
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