It’s National Hamburger Day! And Americans love hamburgers – we eat about three burgers a week. But what are the hidden environmental costs?
Learn more in this animated short from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Also, this: cow farts as an environmental threat. In America, cows produce more greenhouse gas than 22 million cars per year.
The United States is the world’s biggest economy and the leading exporter of wheat, corn, beef and many other commodities. It also has the most unequal wealth distribution of all major developed countries. Economic woes in the U.S. have led to one in seven Americans to rely on food assistance.
What are the other hidden costs of hamburgers? Find out by watching our new animation.
Americans love hamburgers- we eat about three burgers a week. But what are the hidden environmental costs? Find out in our new animated short!
As its farmers get too old to till the soil, Japan grapples with a question that many industrialized nations now face: Who will grow our food in the future? Our new Food for 9 Billion segment done in collaboration with PBS NewsHour, American Public Media’s Marketplace and Homelands Productions.
How well do you know your food history? When did humans start planting in rows? Or start using the plow? Find out by using our interactive food history timeline!
We don’t want to buy pink slime.
Dennis Barrett, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s director of food services.
Schools across the country have been quick to distance themselves from the cotton candy-colored controversy after revelations that the U.S. Department of Agriculture buys the product, commonly used in ground beef, for its national school lunch program.
(via californiawatch)
Just one of the food-and-water facts from the campaign organizers at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
What is the food situation in countries around the world? Click through to check out our new food statistic map, part of our Food for 9 Billion project with the PBS NewsHour, American Public Media’s Marketplace and Homelands Productions.
To get you started, here are some facts about the United States:
- The U.S. is the world’s biggest economy and leading exporter of wheat, corn, beef and many other commodities.
- It has the most unequal wealth distribution of all major developed countries.
- Economic woes have led one in seven Americans to rely on food assistance.
- Nearly 15% of U.S. households were considered food insecure in 2010, compared to 12% in 1995.
Researchers have found higher-than-expected levels of deadly bacteria in what is considered the largest sampling of raw retail meat products in the United States.
A team of researchers at the University of Iowa collected 256 samples of pork from 35 retail stores in Iowa, Minnesota and New Jersey. Samples included pork chops, ground pork, riblets, ribs, sausage, blade steak, cube steaks, pork loin, pork roasts and pork cutlets.
The researchers found that nearly 7 percent of the products tested contained methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Researchers from the National Pork Board were quick to point out that not all MRSA strains are harmful to people. Indeed, livestock strains of the bacteria show little effect, if any, on people.
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