Food you can trust. We can all remember the Thanksgiving romaine lettuce recall. It put millions of consumers at major risk of foodborne illnesses. The situation was compoun[...]
Brian Witlin on why harnessing data and creating financial incentives for healthy eating, will help us reimagine food production, regulation and consumption. [...]
Want to know if Monsanto, Koch Industries or Johnson & Johnson are behind your favorite cereal, toilet paper or preferred sweetener? Now there’s an app for that– it’s called Bu[...]
Katrina Heron, Executive Director of The Edible Schoolyard Project, talks about her vision for equiping consumers with the information they need to make healthier, more sustainable[...]
What’s the difference between Grade A, organic, natural and free-range eggs? Amongst a sea of misleading food labels, Buying Poultry hopes to take the guess-work out of choosing th[...]
The first graduating ARK Challenge class launches companies to gamify grocery shopping, test food quality, connect retailers with small farmers and more.[...]
As consumer distrust of food labels and food allergies grow, these researchers are developing iPhone tools that will bring transparency to your smartphone.[...]
Information asymmetry puts consumers at a disadvantage. Investor Ali Partovi argues that enacting Prop 37 would "return us to a baseline of basic transparency from which a free mar[...]
Real Time Farms announced Sunday a new partnership with Food52. Through the partnership, the startup will explore new avenues for making their database of information about farms a[...]
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York released the results from a survey of over 60 fast food, retail, production and grocery companies asking them about their policies on the[...]
Peer-to-peer sharing, traceability and enterprise software are just a few of the ways technology is catalyzing a flexible, resilient and sustainable food system. With food tech as[...]
Just Label It, a campaign advocating for the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods, created the following infographic to illustrate why GE foods should be labeled.[...]
“The Story of Sushi” is an enlightening tale of sushi's journey from sea-to-plate. Created as a marketing video for Bamboo Sushi, a sustainable sushi restaurant in Portland, Oregon[...]
In this senior thesis project, German interaction design students Benedikt Burgmaier and Fabian Kreuzer re-imagine the meat, cheese and fish counter to provide customers with detai[...]
Bon Appétit Management Company, which operates cafés for companies including Twitter, Yahoo! and eBay, announced Tuesday the rollout of a comprehensive farm animal welfare policy t[...]
Speculation on 2012’s food trends are everywhere, from the newest “ethnic flavors” to the next super berry. But more interesting are the ways experts see technol[...]
I believe that we will start to see a new factor: social food cooperatives. Social tools will lead to an alternative food system to the extent that people choose to spend more time[...]
[Editors Note: This is the third story in a series about meat distribution. Food + Tech Connect will run these stories every Monday for the next several weeks.] In mid July, the En[...]