Also known as FD&C Red. No. 40 Calcium Lake and FD&C Red. No. 40 Aluminum Lake, Allura Red AC is America’s favorite red. It’s the color of so many unreal foods that, for junk foodies like myself, somehow taste like comfort and joy. Sometimes, when I’m eating candy, I imagine I enjoy it so much because […]
Caitlin Shetterly is more than a writer from Portland. She’s a writer with a unique ailment who, in ELLE magazine’s August issue, used her communicative abilities to tell her story to a large audience. In reading Shetterly’s feature, I was impressed with her personal tenacity in seeking relief from her ailment, and though happy she’s […]
The Monsanto Protection Act – ever heard of it? It’s actually called HR 933 and it’s been in the news a lot lately. Huffington Post covered it. International Business Times wrote about it in some detail and threw the modifier ‘terrifying’ into their headline to really catch folks’ attention. CBS threw in on the conversation, […]
Something very important is happening in Maine. It’s in its beginning stages still, but that doesn’t lessen its significance one bit. (Do we ignore toddlers because they’re not full-grown adults yet? Nope.) An Act to Protect Maine Food Consumers’ Right to Know We as Mainers have an opportunity to support a very worthy movement. We […]
For the past couple weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of taking a Coursera course titled “Introduction to the U.S. Food System.” I say “pleasure” because this topic is obviously interesting to me and it’s a privilege for me to learn from the good brains of the field, teaching out of the John Hopkins Bloomberg School […]
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