The availability of healthy food choices and your quality of diet is associated with where you live, according to two studies conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and funded by the Center for a Livable Future. Researchers examined healthy food availability and diet quality among Baltimore City and Baltimore [...]

Check out the new book, Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms,  which takes a critical look at factory farms while giving readers a pathway to find sustainably and humanely-produced meat, dairy, and eggs.  Righteous Porkchop, penned by environmental lawyer and rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman, hit the bookshelves in mid-February and [...]

On Tuesday Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said he would like to see a single food safety agency as opposed to the current system where food safety for the millions of Americans is overseen by two separate agencies, the USDA and the FDA.  “We are the only industrial nation to have two systems,” said Secretary Vilsack, [...]

Rather than helping to produce liquid fuel (ethanol) for vehicles, a better future for some of the nation’s farms may be in growing grass for use as a heating fuel, according to Jock Gill, president of Pellet Futures, a bioenergy consultancy.
Gill spoke Saturday in State College, Pa., at the 18th annual conference of the Pennsylvania [...]

An article published in today’s NewScientist Magazine says cutting back on meet intake could save $20 trillion in the fight against climate change. According to the article, researchers involved say that reducing intake of beef and pork would lead to the creation of a huge new carbon sink, as vegetation would thrive on unused farmland. “The [...]

The every-five-year Census of Agriculture released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows “a continuation in the trend towards more small and very large farms and fewer mid-sized operations.” The comprehensive report noted, between 2002 and 2007, the number of farms with sales of less than $2,500 increased by 74,000, while the number of [...]

The world’s farmers must quickly switch to more sustainable and productive farming systems to grow the food needed by a swelling world population and respond to climate change, FAO’s top crops expert told an international farm congress in New Delhi today. 
In a keynote speech to 1,000 participants at the IVth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture [...]

This Friday millions of Americans will wear red to highlight women’s risk of dying from heart disease.  About ten times as many women die from heart disease as breast cancer in the United States each year, yet an astonishing 90 percent of primary care doctors still don’t know that heart attacks kill more women than men. This [...]

Looking for a challenge? Try explaining the connections of diet and its impact on the environment to a bunch of teenagers. That’s what Center for a Livable Future’s Roni Neff, PhD, did in the just released issue of Imagine, a national magazine for gifted 7th-12th graders published by the Center for Talented Youth at Johns [...]

Interesting reading here! A new article in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, “Health Professionals’ Roles in Animal Agriculture, Climate Change, and Human Health” (subscription required) notes what we eat is rapidly becoming an issue of global concern. “With food shortages, the rise in chronic disease, and global warming, the impact of our dietary choices [...]