Food
Taco Bell and Pizza Hut Want to Serve You Healthy Food
While McDonald’s and Subway might have started the initiative, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut have joined in the drive towards turning national fast food chains into healthier and more wholesome options.Both fast food giants decided to nix artificial dyes and...
Diet Pepsi’s recipe changed over consumer concerns
The popular belief among American consumers that aspartame is dangerous has lead PepsiCo to change the recipe for Diet Pepsi.Aspartame is an artificial sweetener used in NutraSweet and Equal. Although many consumers think otherwise, the sweetener is pe...
Blue Bell Ice Cream recalled for potentially fatal contamination [April 2015]
The FDA has announced a nation-wide recall of Blue Bell Ice Cream. The recall was voluntarily made after Blue Bell Creameries found out many of their ice creams had been contaminated with an organism that can be very dangerous for children and pregnant women...
Sabra Classic Hummus recalled for potentially fatal contamination [April 2015]
The FDA has announced a nation-wide recall of Sabra Classic Hummus. The recall was voluntarily made after Sabra Dipping Company found out their hummus was contaminated with an organism that can be very dangerous for children and pregnant women. The organism ...
Portland’s effort to save bees
Another step has been made in protecting America's $15 billion dollar insect. Portland has banned the use of a certain type of insecticide, called neonicotinoid, in hopes of stopping colony collapse disorder. The ban, however, only applies to property owned ...
How to know if you’re eating pesticides
What are Those PLU Codes Saying About Your Produce?
Admit it. You’ve found yourself standing in your kitchen, mumbling a string of profanities under your breath when you couldn’t get one of those darn PLU stickers off your Red Delicious apple. As much of a pa...
New Dietary Guidelines Ask Americans to Start Thinking of the Environment
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has issued its latest recommendations, with some coming as a surprise to many consumers. For the first time the committee is urging Americans to consider "the impact of food production, processing, and consumption ...
To Eat Meat, or Not to Eat Meat
It is no secret that "vegetarianism" and "veganism" have been on the rise in recent years. According to a New York Magazine article, "perhaps inspired by Jay Z and Beyoncé's 22-day vegan diet or the recent outing of Al Gore as a 'newly turned vegan,' news ...
Understanding Monsanto: Health Effects
As words like “organic” and “non-GMO” permeate our daily lives, we start to search for their true meaning. Although Monsanto is not the only company that produces genetically modified agriculture, its products and practices are a major focus of public contempt...
Happier Than a Pig in SH*T?
Picture it: A lake the size of four football fields filled with pig feces and urine. That’s the scene outside of thousands of factory farms across the United States. As shown in this spy drone video, the world’s largest pork producer, Smithfield Foods factory,...