NewsBites

●Rainbow Warfare: Greenpeace Sets Sail to Save the Bluefin
●A Raw (Milk) Deal for Wisconsin Democracy
●Supermarket Giant to Fisheries: Clean Up, or We Won’t Buy from You
●Hot Dog! Hunt’s Takes High-Fructose Corn Syrup out of Ketchup

 

Bluefins’ Last Hope?
Last fall, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunaslived up to its cynical nickname International Conspiracy to [...]

Bye-Bye Bluefin

It was great while it lasted.

This week, at a meeting in Qatar, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) took a big step toward making sure that Atlantic bluefin tuna will no longer be classified as endangered.
Instead, the species soon may be classified as extinct.
Under intense lobbying pressure from Japan, which imports the [...]

It’s Good News Week: Score One for Atlantic Bluefin, Organic Milk Producers (and Consumers), and Red Snappers (yummmmm!)

Writing articles about food and sustainability is a hard job for a naturally chipper fellow. Happy endings are, sadly, few and far between. But in the last week or so, some very good news indeed has broken in relation to a couple of recent posts on this site. Let’s take a moment to celebrate.
1. Raise [...]