Sustainability Matters: June 5, 2015
Maggie Borden
Doctors across the nation are increasingly enrolling their patients in fruit and vegetable prescription programs to combat obesity. [Modern Farmer]
Wikileaks is offering a bounty for a copy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. [Food Politics]
A new report suggests that in this year alone, California’s drought will cost farmers $2.7 billion and more than 18,000 jobs. [NPR]
Congress is reconsidering allowing egg imports from the Netherlands, thanks to intense pressure from the American Bakers Association. [NPR]
North Carolina’s state legislature is debating an “ag-gag” law that could make the state's already mysterious industrial farming practices even more inscrutable. [MUNCHIES]
According to Mark Bittman, unless you have a food allergy, don’t worry about eating California almonds. [NYT]