Recovering from early summer’s Great Kombucha Rapture, Vibranz kombucha is returning to stores, AP reports. And the good news is that Vibranz is raw, probiotic and under 0.5% alcohol (I was a bit worried that only pseudo-kombucha like the kind being made by Red Bull would get back into the national chains in a timely manner). GT [...]

Whole Foods—the world’s leading retailer of natural and organic foods—has pulled all kombucha from its shelves. More on my other blog …

The Greenpoint Food Market was featured in a New York Times article at the beginning of June. Good for Greenpoint, right? Perhaps not. The market’s vendors operate on a wide spectrum of the professionalism and legality scale. For some, this is a career; for others, it’s a hobby, a community-bonding activity, a stepping-stone to bigger things, [...]

Is that a banana in your pocket, or did you just drink some of Brooklyn’s “Magic Power Coffee?” INZ Distributors Inc./Magic Power Coffee Inc. of Brooklyn, NY announced today that it is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall of the dietary supplement product sold under the name, Magic Power Coffee. The Company has been informed by [...]

It had broad bipartisan support and backing from the White House, and it was expected to come to the Senate floor before the Memorial Day recess. But in a letter to Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), the chairman and ranking minority member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, the [...]

* Greenpoint Soup Kitchen Garden, a volunteer-run community garden housed in the backyard of the Greenpoint Reformed Church, is holding an informational/organizing meeting this Saturday from 4-5 p.m. in the backyard of 136 Milton Street.  Looking to set up volunteer schedules for gardening, watering. * Food Safety Bill (S510) debate in the Senate pushed back [...]

Goodness, gracious, why aren’t more people talking about this? Meat, poultry industries await new antitrust rules: Federal regulators are set to release the most sweeping antitrust rules covering the meat industry in decades, potentially altering the balance of power between meat companies and the farmers who raise their animals. At issue is how much power [...]