There’s a certain seafood store in suburban Maryland that used to source its product by driving to Newark, New Jersey, in the dead of night on Wednesdays and meeting a plane from Portugal. On Thursdays the store was swarmed with clientele looking for fresh sardines, salt cod, octopus and all sorts of other delicacies. Thinking […]
The U.S. Geological Service has released results of a seven-year study showing that mercury was found in every single fish tested in nearly 300 of the nation’s streams. Mercury levels in nearly a quarter of the samples were found to excede what the government considers safe for consumption. The biggest source of mercury in the […]
Is organic food more nutritious than industrial food? This shameful canard proved that it can still light a fire in the food policy realm when a British “study” concluded that organic food has no special merit nutrition-wise. The Washington Post’s new food wonk, Ezra Klein, chirped that the study was probably right. Plus, organic food is too […]
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