Image by CHOW.com Post by Roxanne Webber via CHOW.com Does produce at the farmers’ market really come from a local organic farm, or are the people selling it straight-up lying? That is the question NBC Los Angeles tried to answer in a recent exposé on...
The average item of food we eat travels 1,500 miles from the field to the consumer.
Walmart sells 18 percent of all the groceries bought in the United States—more than anyone else by a wide margin. And it’s not just Froot Loops and rock-hard tomatoes. Over the last decade, Walmart has emerged as a massive player in the organic-food market. But...
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Id9caYw-Y] 11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food — far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture,...