Environment

Can Environmentalists Eat Steak? Is Grass-fed, Free-range Better?

May 23, 2017 by Tyler Ardizzone
Last updated on: May 23, 2017

Healthy animals mean a healthy environment, right? What about concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)? These “factory farms” must be cancerous to the environment. This all seems like common sense, but our common sense can sometimes lead us in the wrong… [read]

Safe Seafood and What to Avoid in 2017

May 10, 2017 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: May 10, 2017

Roughly half of all of our seafood is from farmed sources. That isn’t inherently a bad thing. Farmed fish seems like a logically, responsible consumer choice. The problem is that modern agriculture’s ability to slowly strip away as many nutrients… [read]

President Macron: The Antidote to Trump’s Climate Change Ignorance

May 9, 2017 by Tyler Ardizzone
Last updated on: June 5, 2017

“I do know how your president now has decided to jeopardize your budget, your initiatives, as he is extremely skeptical about climate change.” These are the words that the newly elected president of France, Emmanuel Macron, used to empathize with… [read]

Repurpose, Regrow, and Recycle – Food Waste Edition

April 25, 2017 by Tyler Ardizzone
Last updated on: April 25, 2017

In the United States, there are 6.3 million households with very low food security and over half a million people without shelter. And yet, one out of every four calories intended for human consumption is never actually eaten. More than… [read]

How to Regrow Your Favorite Herbs and Save Lots of Money

April 24, 2017 by Tyler Ardizzone
Last updated on: May 28, 2020

It’s so easy to get food – just go to the store, find what you want, come back home, prepare it, eat it, and repeat. But what if you just had to go to your windowsill? Although many fruits and… [read]

Monsanto Might Be in Big Trouble

March 15, 2017 by Kristina Martin

Monsanto is currently embroiled in a lawsuit from farmers claiming that glyphosate caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, contradicting the EPA’s finding that the chemical is “…not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.” On Tuesday, documents from the case were unsealed, including… [read]

Monsanto Wants the Omega-3 Fatty Acids Market

March 8, 2017 by Kristina Martin

What’s the next phase in omega-3 fatty acid supplementation? If biotechnology and agricultural trading giants like Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and Cargill have anything to say about it, the future is soy and canola. There is no way to meet the… [read]