• Sustainability Blog

    Nightmare on America Now

    To frighten viewers, horror films rely on eerie mood music, spooky narration and fake blood lots of fake blood.One could comfortably assume that production of a Freddie Kruger film would be a far cry...

  • Health Blog

    Canned Tuna Study Still Misleading 2 Years Later

    On the green living site Care2, Dr. Michael Greger tries his level best to encourage pregnant women to stop eating canned tuna. He builds his case using a 2010 University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) s...

  • Health Blog

    The Truth About That Sushi Tuna and Radiation Report

    You may have heard some breathless reporting about radiation in tuna recently. But the fact is the actual scientific testing done does not conclude there is a food safety or public health concern rela...

  • Health Blog

    California Sport Fish Findings Primed to Confuse

    Remember the time journalists misread that CDC report and wrote that imported seafood was a danger and a growing one at that? Right but then they looked closely at it and found they were conflating il...

  • Sustainability Blog

    Washington Post Blog Cites Laughably Out of Date Statistic

    In 1973, The Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for its Watergate investigation, due in large part to its focus on the details. Nearly 40 years, later the digital versio...

  • Blog

    Facts On The Western Front

    The Western Farm Press recently asked in a headline, when does trade and commerce trump food safety? and then linked to a story about the now infamous catfish provision from the 2008 Farm Bill. Cavali...

  • Health Blog

    Please Leave Nutrition Advice to the Experts

    A Huffington Post column by Moms Clean Air Force Senior Director and Co-Founder Dominique Browning is a perfect example of poorly sourced, emotionally based nutrition advice that scares people away fr...

  • Health Blog

    Setting the Record Straight even on the Radio

    In a perfect example of the changing media attitude toward science-based information concerning seafood advice, NFIs registered dietitian, Jennifer McGuire, was given the opportunity last week to clea...

  • Health Blog

    Physician: Heal Thyself

    Anyone watching Mondays episode of THE DOCTORS would have been better served by Lucy van Pelts nickel clinic. The segment was titled, Healthy Habits That Are Bad for You! And for nearly five minute...

  • Sustainability Blog

    Huffington Posts Simplistic Slideshow Leaves Out Key Facts on Tuna, Environment

    Once again, the Huffington Post misleads readers on canned tuna and its environmental impacts. Huff Po presents uncited, out of context information in the form of a slideshow. It would appear that gra...

Media Blog

    GG CCTV Screen GrabWhether it’s the tip of a hat for a job well done or a demand for correction keep up with NFI’s latest media work on the Media Blog from NFI's Vice President for Communications Gavin Gibbons.