Food and Agriculture

Biden-Harris Admin Announces $2.2 Billion in Discrimination Relief Payments to Farmers

Biden-Harris Admin Announces $2.2 Billion in Discrimination Relief Payments to Farmers

The Biden-Harris administration has announced the issuance of $2.2 billion in financial assistance payments to more than 43,000 farmers, forest landowners and ranchers who were subject to discrimination before January 2021. The payments are being made through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)’s Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP), a press release from the United States Department […]

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    Scientists Invent a Chocolate That’s More Sustainable and Healthier

    Scientists Invent a Chocolate That’s More Sustainable and Healthier

    Scientists from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), along with professionals in the chocolate industry, have found a way to make better use of cocoa fruit to produce not only more sustainable, but also healthier chocolate. Currently, to make chocolate, producers use the beans found inside the cocoa fruit, but not the pulp or endocarp, […]

    Aquatic Farming Surpasses Fishing for First Time: UN Report

    Aquatic Farming Surpasses Fishing for First Time: UN Report

    For the first time, the amount of aquatic life — such as fish, clams and shrimp — that was farmed outpaced wild-caught aquatic life in 2022, according to the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In the UN’s latest The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report, it found that aquaculture, or farmed aquatic […]

    Researchers Find Car Tire Additives in Leafy Crops

    Researchers Find Car Tire Additives in Leafy Crops

    For the first time, researchers have found the presence of additives found in vehicle tires in leafy crops grown for human consumption. While residues from other substances, such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products, have been detected previously, there has been no investigation into how pollution from car tires may affect food, the authors noted. […]

    Half of Pasture Lands on Earth Degraded by Climate Change and Overuse, Threatening Food Supply of Billions: UN Report

    Half of Pasture Lands on Earth Degraded by Climate Change and Overuse, Threatening Food Supply of Billions: UN Report

    The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has found that as much as half of the natural pasture land on Earth has been degraded by the impacts of climate change and overexploitation, putting a sixth of the planet’s food supplies at risk. The new UNCCD report — Global Land Outlook Thematic Report on Rangelands […]

    Florida’s DeSantis Bans Lab-Grown Meat

    Florida’s DeSantis Bans Lab-Grown Meat

    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a ban on the selling and distribution of lab-grown meat in the state, the first law of its kind in the United States. With the ban, DeSantis said he would be saving beef from the “global elite,” reported BBC News. “Today, Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s […]

    Tyson Foods Dumped Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Slaughterhouse Pollutants Into U.S. Waterways, Report Finds

    Tyson Foods Dumped Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Slaughterhouse Pollutants Into U.S. Waterways, Report Finds

    A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has found that Tyson Foods dumped hundreds of millions of pounds of pollutants into U.S. waterways from 2018 to 2022. The pollutants came from company facilities including slaughterhouses and processing plants. UCS analyzed publicly available data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and found […]