Tyson Foods, one of the country’s largest food processing companies, joined a voluntary Homeland Security Department program today to ensure that the people it hires are in the country legally. Tyson has at various times been at the center of immigration-related inquiries for hiring undocumented workers. The food processing industry in general is notorious for [...]
The World Health Organization’s executive board, meeting this week, has been discussing how to make use of the leaders’ attention, and a set of new recommendations tackling marketing of harmful food to children is part of that effort. Dr. Timothy Armstrong, who heads the WHO’s efforts on promoting healthy diet and physical education, said non-communicable [...]
In the food world, the people with power are the ones who affect what and how and where and why we eat — or who can, if they want to. They’re the agribusiness moguls who decide what gets grown and how it gets harvested and sold; the representatives of major food processing, distribution concerns, and [...]
