The Hershey Company recently announced that it is transitioning to simpler ingredients, and that this transition builds on  its commitment to responsible ingredient sourcing. The details are still a bit vague, but the company stated that it plans to introduce new snacking products in the U.S. in 2015 that have simple ingredients.
Straus Family Creamery has announced it will roll out new packaging in support of the California Right-to-Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, commonly known as Proposition 37.
Those that own the food, own the people. Most of us understand the dangers in patenting staple seed crops like corn, wheat, soy, alfalfa & cotton because these ingredients are key to the industrial food system.
It's a vicious cycle, Vandana Shiva explains, how indebtedness to large seed supplying corporations puts third world farmers into precarious positions, sometimes ending with suicide seeming like the only answer to a continual problem.
Have you ever wondered what all those numbers on the produce stickers actually mean? I had always thought they were just codes for the grocer to connect to the database so they could ring it up.
