Food & Agriculture
Costa Coffee, Kenco, Mars Honored by Rainforest Alliance
Costa Coffee, the Kenco Coffee Company ad Mars Inc. are among the winners of Rainforest Alliance's Sustainability Standard-Setter Awards for 2011. Read More
Smithfield Foods and the Quest for Large-Scale, Sustainable Pork
Smithfield is a pork giant. It has 49 factories, 500 or so hog farms, and a checkered environmental past. But its chief sustainability officer says the company is on the path to redemption. Read More
GMOs and Organics: Why Can't They Get Along?
At a high-level gathering of food industry leaders and insiders, the controversy about genetically modified foods sprouted to the surface, as panelists debated whether GMOs will feed the world or destroy the planet. Read More
Carting Away the Oceans: April 2011
What retailer has the most sustainable seafood? Read More
Safeway Tops Seafood Rankings as Whole Foods, Kroger Tighten Policies
An unexpected grocery chain takes the top spot in Greenpeace's rankings that rate stores on sustainable seafood practices. Read More
Barramundi Fulfills Elusive Promise of Sustainable Seafood
What makes Australis such an interesting company is that its product -- farm-raised barramundi -- is an environmentally-preferable alternative to most farmed fish. It doesn't need to eat a lot of other seafood to grow, it doesn't make a lot of waste, it doesn't require a lot of antibiotics ... and it tastes O.K., too. Read More
US Foodservice to Power SC Fleet with Waste Cooking Oil
US Foodservice acquired Bluffton, S.C.-based WVO Industries with an eye on turning the waste vegetable oil used in its customers' deep fryers into biodiesel to power its fleet. Read More
Walmart Zero Waste Program a Boon for Texas Recycler
Walmart needed to find a home for its food waste that didn't involve a landfill. No such infrastructure existed so Walmart built one, with the help of Quest Recycling Services from Frisco, Texas. Read More
PepsiCo and Naked Juice: Confused About GMOs
What principle is guiding Naked Juice's avoidance of GMOs? Read More
View from the C-Suite: Campbell's Doug Conant and Denise Morrison
The outgoing and incoming CEOs of the iconic brand discuss the legacy of sustainability in the food industry, how Millennials are shifting the company's focus, and why they changed the "M'm! M'm! Good!" slogan. Read More