Posts Tagged ‘food costs’
Separating fact from fiction in food & farming: Episode 118
Grocery store costs are crazy, but what costs have gone up on farms? Are fields sprayed with “such harsh pesticides” that workers can’t enter the fields? Is hydroponic farming the wave of the future when it comes to leafy greens? Should you be worried about lead in soil? Michele helps Nicole separate fact from fiction on these topics and more.
Read MoreWho are the victims of food bullying?
Whether feeling guilty about what’s in your grocery cart, being told your restaurant food choice is “wrong,” or the pressure you feel from an overly opinionated work colleague to make the “right” eating choice at dinner, food bullying impacts all of us negatively. Exclusion, social manipulation, humiliation, and rumor mongering are all examples of emotional…
Read MoreWhere Does Your Food Dollar Go?
Ninety-two percent of Americans consider it “somewhat important” to “very important” that food be affordable, followed by the 91 percent who felt the same way about nutrition, according to the Science and Food Survey released October 2015 by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Nearly every food survey I’ve seen over the course of my…
Read MoreThe Perfect Storm
Are we in the “perfect storm” of circumstances that’s shooting off lightening bolts about the agrifood business? Let’s take a look at conditions that are putting food production into the limelight – and not in a very kindly fashion.
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