Category: Public Policy

  • Honeybees are sweeter than honey

    Perhaps you’ve heard murmerings over the past 5-10 years about the plight of the honeybee, whose population has dropped 50% in the past 50 years in the U.S.  While many of you are probably thinking, “sweet, fewer irritating bee stings for me”, there is much, much more at stake than your carefree picnic time.  Honeybees […]

  • Pesticides and other Chemicals – Worst and Best Foods

    People ask me all the time – which foods are most important to buy organic?  I’ve seen many lists of top 10s, and they tend to vary, so generally my advice is to buy organic whenever possible (why eat dangerous herbicides and pesticides when you don’t have to?), especially when you’re eating the skin of […]

  • Food Labeling Exposed!

    An awesome article on food labeling tricks and falsehoods appeared today on yahoo.  Here’s a sampling of the fascinating doozies that the article exposes: Some products that advertise that they “contain whole grains” actually use carmel color to mimic the brown color that would appear from whole grains, while containing almost none of the good stuff.  […]