Archive for the 'Organic food' Category

Organic, fair trade coffee in San Diego, CA

Ryan Bros Coffee of San Diego - Organic, fair trade and quite delicious
One of the easiest ways to start to go green is with a daily cup of organic and/or fair trade coffee.
If you live in San Diego, CA you can stop by and pick up a cup of fair trade coffee yourself. [...]

Starbucks to drop trans fats

SEATTLE - Barb French has three good reasons to be happy Starbucks is banning artery-clogging trans fats from its food: her own health and the health of her two young daughters.
One more step in getting trans fats out of the mainstream.
Read the article

FDA OKs food from cloned animals

Does this worry anyone else? First, if we can’t sustain ourselves on the current animal population, maybe we should rethink a couple things like diet and population. Second, what exactly are “virtually indistinguishable” cloned animals?
WASHINGTON - The government declared Thursday that food from cloned animals is safe to eat. After more than five years [...]

Organic chocolate

Chocolate is my weakness. I have spent many a nights up late working, munching on Newman’s Own Champion Chip Cookies.
But is wasn’t until this holiday season that I was given what I think is the best organic chocolate I have ever tasted. I had the Toffee Delight which is:
Made with organic bittersweet chocolate and organic [...]

Wal-Mart Pledges to Sell Sustainable Fish Products

I just read this is in the WWF May/June 2006 issue of “Focus”.
It looks like the WWF, Marine Stewardship Council, and Conservation International are working with Wal-Mart to sell sustainable fish. This applies to ALL fresh and frozen fish.
First - I had no idea they sold fish, nevermind fresh fish(?).
Second - who is buying [...]

Spreading the Organic Word…on the race track?

You can spread the word of green living and eating organic a couple of ways.
Here’s the most unique way I’ve see to date…Start your engines…
Organic Racing

The Importance of Eating Local Produce, etc

In a recent article on Yahoo!, entitled “Brazilian farming will doom 40 percent of Amazon” revealed that, “Destruction of the forest would also have big repercussions on regional and global weather systems, which are linked to the heat and precipitation cycles of the vast Amazon region”.
Global weather systems boys and girls.
We all have to [...]

Wal-Mart plans to double its organic grocery offerings in the next month

Wal-Mart is opening its doors to organic food.
Stephen Quinn, vice president of marketing, said Wal-Mart would have 400 organic food items in stores this summer at the Wal-Mart price.
I’ve said that mainstreaming organics is a good move. Wholefoods is more of what I had in mind. Wal-Mart is something I never imagined. I would [...]

McDonald’s French Fries Ingredients

I was having a brief discussion about the ingredients in the world famous, super-size me, fast-food nation, McDonald’s french fries. So, I looked them up.
You can find ingredients for the fries, Quarter Pounder, and all the other wonderful, nutritionless happy meals here - McDonald’s Ingredients
For those of you who ate too many fries and can’t [...]

Parents Turn to Organic Over Food Fears

It’s been a while since I posted. Vacation, work, life, work, etc. Here’s a quick link to an article new parents will find interesting.
From the Yahoo article…
“The pesticide issue just scares me — it wigs me out to think about the amount of chemicals that might be going into my kid,” said O’Neal, 36.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_he_me/fit_organic_kids