Opinion: Seriously, stop demonizing almonds
In a clever, highly readable piece, Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) of Gizmodo debunks the controversy surrounding almond production and water use. She proposes a different way to value water. Her...
View ArticleOpinion: “How I got converted to GMO food”
Mark Lynas (@mark_lynas) is a researcher at the Cornell Alliance for Science. He was once an anti-GMO activist, and even admits to participating in the vandalism of field trials in Britain. Then he...
View ArticleOpinion: “Renegade Lunch Lady” on school lunches…opting out is not an option
Chef Ann Cooper is a well-known author, chef and educator. An advocate for better food for all children, she has been a chef for more than 30 years, with over 15 of those in service to youth in school...
View ArticleOpinion: The Rise and fall of the ‘Foodies’
Bill Eberle is an operations manager at the Rosendale Dairy in Pickett, Wisconsin, which is that state’s largest dairy farm. He wrote this opinion piece for the Fond du Lac Reporter. In it, he decries...
View ArticleOpinion: building an “integrated food safety system” will take all of us
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) represents the most sweeping reform of American food safety law in more than seven decades. The FDA’s implementation of the FSMA “envisions an ‘integrated food...
View ArticleOpinion: Agroecology and food justice are critical to empower people to feed...
In an opinion piece appearing in The Huffington Post, Lori Thrupp, Alistair Iles and Maywa Montenegro of the UC Berkeley Food Institute make a strong argument that the current framing of how to feed a...
View ArticleOpinion: “Let’s help create more farmers”
Noted journalist, author and chef Mark Bittman pens a provocative opinion piece for the New York Times. He identifies an issue most of us are concerned with – the aging of the American farmer – and...
View ArticleOpinion: Read this before June 11th
“Sell by” dates may assure consumers, but they are mostly arbitrary. They came into being as part of a larger consumer movement in the 1970s, and reflected concerns about food safety. But the current...
View ArticleOp-Ed: “Trust me. Butter is better.”
Mark Bittman is a noted journalist, author and chef. He’s now at UC Berkeley, where he is affiliated with the Berkeley Food Institute and the Graduate School of Journalism. He’s also hosting California...
View ArticleOpinion: “Roads, railways and research can stop global food waste”
It’s estimated that about 1/4 of the world’s food is lost each year. (In the U.S., those figures are higher; it’s estimated we waste about 40% of our food). Globally, the issue of food waste is...
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Guest Blog: 5th generation farmer Chris Sayer
Planting cover crop in an orchard isn’t exciting work. Fill the seeder and drive. Refill the seeder and drive more. Sometimes a stick might jam in the seeder’s mechanism and need clearing. Then it is...
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Progress in Sustainable Agriculture Must be Supported
Federal Support for Sustainable Agriculture is at Risk Last week, I was in Washington, D.C. for a Farm Bill symposium that the Berkeley Food Institute organized in collaboration with American...
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