Chris Hunt
Chris Hunt serves as senior policy advisor for GRACE's Sustainable Table. He devotes his attention to issues related to food production and consumption, focusing on the problems created by industrial livestock operations.
The Brooklyn Grange (largest rooftop farm in the world!), has announced plans to build a second rooftop farm in Brooklyn AND launch an ambitious apiary project to produce more than 1,000 pounds of honey annually.
The industrial livestock sector's misuse of antibiotics promotes the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, reducing the effectiveness of medicines used to treat human illness, and posing a serious threat to public health.
A new study found high levels of arsenic in infant formula, energy bars, cereal bars and energy gels containing organic brown rice syrup. But there are still no regulatory limits for arsenic in food.
Perhaps best known as the chicken farmer from Food, Inc., Carole Morison is a long-time poultry producer, sustainable agriculture activist and outspoken critic of the industrial food system. Here, she discusses her transition from industrial producer to sustainable farmer.
Barring any cataclysmic events, here are our predicted trends for 2012 in Food, Water and Energy (Fwenergy, if you will). And while there are no doomsday scenarios, not everything looks rosy for 2012.
According to a new report by the Environmental Working Group, an assessment of 84 popular children’s breakfast cereals revealed that only one in four meets the voluntary dietary guidelines proposed by the federal Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children.
On December 3, Food + Tech Connect and GoJee are hosting the Farm Bill Hackathon, bringing together food/ag experts, technologists, designers, policy makers and data specialists to develop tools and visualizations that can be used to help better understand how the farm bill impacts our lives.
Despite the potential environmental threat posed by genetically engineered fish, biotech corporation, AquaBounty has received more than $2.4 million in federal research grants since 2003 to support its GE salmon project.
As Food Growing Project Coordinator at the Food Bank for Westchester, Doug DeCandia manages a joint production-vocational program to grow fresh produce for those who experience food insecurity in Westchester. [Podcast length: 27 min.]
Perhaps the most common criticism of sustainable agriculture is that the food it produces is a luxury only accessible to wealthy elitists. Our friends at Slow Food are out to disprove this contention – on September 17, the organization is inviting eaters to participate in the $5 Challenge.
As I wrote in an earlier post, two GRACE coworkers and I are splitting a CSA* share from the 14th Street Y CSA. Interested in seeing what we’ve been getting? Check out the slideshow for photos of the last six shares.
Did you know that Ecocentric has a News Briefs section? Yup; every day, our staff diligently traverses the digital media jungle in order to handpick the very best articles about food, water and energy issues. Here, a slightly more in-depth look at recent developments in food and agriculture.
Scientists to Washington: Regulate Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture!
Our Hero: Carole Morison of Bird’s Eye View Farm
12 in 2012: Food, Water and Energy Trends for a New Year
