USA Food Quality, Awareness, and Activism

You can take the lead in saving our oceans by making responsible shopping and dining decisions. Guy Harvey has updated the Responsible Seafood Guide that identifies the best fish to eat, those you can eat with caution, and fish to avoid.  The Guide is based on the research Guy does that leads to finding commonsense solutions to reversing overfishing, pollution, and other threats to the marine habitat.   Since 1999, Guy Harvey has funded research that has led to a broad understanding of the... Read Full Story

WITH food prices going up faster than Chinese skyscrapers, anyone who can afford to buy organic everything - probably has a personal assistant doing their shopping for them. The rest of us face difficult decisions every time we push a cart. One way of deciding which purchases should be organic is to work out which foods contain the most pesticides. Analysis of US government records by the non-profit Environmental Working Group led to the release in 2006 of a list nicknamed the "Dirty... Read Full Story

Guy Harvey’s Research Institute sets guidelines with the consumption of seafood and Guy Harvey’s Island Grill puts this into action.  There are fish to eat and fish to avoid.  Let’s talk about the fish NOT to eat:  Chilean Seabass/Toothfish Cod Atlantic Crab: King (imported) Flounders, Soles: (Atlantic) Groupers Halibut: Atlantic  Lobster Spiny (Caribbean imported)  Marlin  Monkfish  Orange Roughy  Rockfish: (Pacific)  Salmon (farmed including Atlantic) Scallops: Sea (Mid-Atlantic) Sharks... Read Full Story

There are two types of food that I know of that are actually healthy and make you happy. One is chocolate, the other is Chick Peas. I've added two herbal teas that will also fight the blues. Let me know below what foods really make you happy while also not being unhealthy. Comfort food is generally a name for food people eat when they are feeling unhappy. Usually this food isn't good for you - and will only make you feel better very temporarily. The food in this lens has actual biological... Read Full Story

I love the fear mongering Herald-Tribune editorial staff. Last month it was lead in toys, this weekend it was hurricanes caused by global warming, today it is fruits, vegetables and juices. Will they ever stop? Nope because it sells newspapers. Fear = profit! In their editorial Produce and pesticides they state, "schoolchildren who consumed produce and juice from Seattle [Washington] -area grocery stores had their urine and saliva tested on a regular basis. The scientists detected... Read Full Story