About Seafood

Remember that time (read: this morning) when we put out a media alert warning reporters, producers and editors not to the botch the headlines associated with any report on a new study in the Archives ...

Because his friends at Greenpeace told him it was so, food columnist Mark Bittman then told his readers that Fish Aggregating Devices used by tuna companies kill countless numbers of [other] animals i...

New York Times Blogger Mark Bittman was once a journalist. He once was held to a standard higher than -- these are my friends and this is my opinion. But that was many moons ago and now he peppers his...

Last week when Mercury Policy Project (MPP) released its agenda driven ramblings in the form of a report on mercury in canned tuna, a number of questions were raised about this opinion piece that was ...

Consumer Reports discredits itself by echoing the already discredited report on canned tuna that the Mercury Policy Project (MPP) publicized on Wednesday. Its just the latest unscientific attack on tu...

Todays report from the Mercury Policy Project is not a peer-reviewed scientific study but rather simply the opinions of agenda driven activist groups. The report completely ignores the multitude of st...

If youre ever in Ms. Gordons Catskills neighborhood when the power goes out, knock on her neighbors door. Rather than use mass care authorities like the Red Cross to craft her survival tips (published...

Scientific studies that are outliers or in the end dont reach a causal conclusion or cant really be practically applied but at least appear to buck current knowledge are often fodder for headlines. Wh...

Heading into the Labor Day weekend more than one editor, reporter or producer has scanned the news horizon and found little to chose from, outside the hand shaking and baby kissing of a Presidential e...

You cant eat politics. Or can you?The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington-based lobbying organization, has just published its own recipe book. In keeping the EWGs nanny state ethos, the or...