Since its invention of the ketchup packet in 1968, H.J. Heinz Co. has received nothing but complaints about the small, messy, and above all else, simply wasteful design of the to-go version of America’s most popular condiment. But by the end of year, ketchup packets may disappear altogether. Fast food chains like McDonald’s, Burger King, and Carl’s [...]

Shrimp farming, an industry that supplies the world with over 5 million metric tons of shrimp each year, is known throughout the environmental community as one of the world’s most destructive coastal industries. Aquaculture, the type of industry utilized by shrimp companies in areas like Southeast Asia, dramatically reduces biological diversity, degrades habitats, reduces genetic variability, [...]

Since the 1940s, the Green Revolution and the rise of agricultural productivity improved survival and population rates. Although the majority of people have benefited from technological advancement in food production, the introduction of pesticides and food commercialization came with no long-term plans for dealing with the externalities, including cultural, environmental, social and economic instability. Today’s [...]

This Thursday, the United Egg Producers and the United States Humane Society signed an agreement giving chickens more living space. The proposed legislation would: mandate a replacement of conventional cages (currently used by more than 90 percent of the egg industry) with new housing systems that provide each hen nearly double the amount of space [...]

This Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted to implement a new dairy contract that will remove flavored milk from its menus in an effort to promote healthier eating and combat childhood obesity. News outlets have commented on the “whopping” amount of sugar in flavored milk. The solution? Kids should “learn to drink [...]