At nearly $15 billion in U.S. sales last year, bottled water can be found everywhere. So can the bottles and that's what has environmentalists fighting to reduce the approximately 38 million plastic containers that...
Priced out of Organic, yet still wanting to tap into the red-hot specialty meat market, retailers like Don Rellstab increasingly find themselves stuck in the middle. That may sound like a tough position. But for...
When the last Farm Bill passed in 2002, organic was still getting its act together. Cut to present day, and the difference is dramatic. Now the industry and its agent, the Organic Trade Association, have adjusted to...
Whole Foods Markets may eventually satisfy the Federal Trade Commission on questions related to its status as a food retailer. But on the issue of ethics, the supernatural chain answers only to a higher authority...
Convenience or health pick one. For years, this was the choice consumers faced when shopping the frozen food display. In the past decade, technology has improved the first option. But health has largely remained an...
Pleasanton, Calif.-Based Safeway has its very own Wellness Center, but you won't find it located in any stores. In fact, where it exists there isn't a white-coat-clad worker to be found. That's because it's online...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to set an example by going green, too. The department has announced the creation of the Sustainable Operations Council, a task force charged with looking at ways to cut waste...
Like a legislative Al Gore, the lumbering Farm Bill has traded its wonky exterior for a touch of glam. All sorts of people outside the agriculture industry, from foodies to singers and authors, have called on Congress...
Representatives from the produce industry praised the most recent immigration bill forwarded by Congress late last month, noting in particular that the proposed temporary guest worker program and the provision to...
If a new alternative food movement has its way, Ethiopian coffee growers and Georgia pecan farmers will soon have a lot in common. Building momentum in the shadow of its international counterpart, domestic fair trade...