Celebrating Food Every Day
Food plays such an integral role in each of our lives. Consumed for both health and pleasure, in 3-square meals or snacks throughout the day, food is sustenance, pleasure and the root of so many...
View ArticleThe food industry “shouldn’t be about making money.”
How can the food system be more transparent? Consumers say it shouldn’t be about profit: “It shouldn’t be about making money, it should be about providing a quality of life for people.” The Center...
View ArticleA Country Song Guide to Building Consumer Trust
Dust off your boots and polish your belt buckles for Wednesday night’s CMAs, when country crooners will no doubt belt out tunes about beer, broken hearts and big trucks. It’s music that cuts to the...
View ArticleWhat is the food industry hiding?
Is the food industry transparent? Our research shows that today’s consumers are more skeptical than ever before: “There are plenty of people out there who don’t want us to know certain things that...
View ArticleCan the food industry just be honest?
What does transparency mean to today’s consumers? Our 2013 Consumer Trust in the Food System research measured it and then took to the streets to hear what they had to say. “I’d like to know if I’m...
View ArticleCan the U.S. food supply be trusted?
Our research shows that today’s consumer is more skeptical than ever. We took to the streets as part of our 2013 Consumer Trust in the Food System research to hear what they had to say. “I don’t...
View ArticleVIDEO: Year in Review
Charlie Arnot, CEO, Center for Food Integrity, reviews 2013 highlights.
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Trust Me
The other night, my husband and I sat down and watched a new show on the National Geographic Channel called Brain Games. In the episode, "Trust Me" we learned that humans have an innate tendency to...
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Chipotle at it Again: How Should Food and Farming Respond?
It’s natural to come to the defense of people and things we hold dear when they are under attack. So, it’s understandable that the comedy series produced by Chipotle, which satirizes agriculture as an...
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Online Habits of Highly Influential Eaters
As food consumers, we’re still hunter/gatherers. Only today, we’re hunting and gathering information about food – and we’re doing it online. There are two groups of consumers that have a particularly...
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Lessons from the Farm Barbie: A New Blogger with Devoted Fans and Big Plans
A city girl turned country chick. That’s how the “Farm Barbie,” Barbara Siemen, describes the transition from her upbringing in a 9-to-5 family in Bay City, Michigan, to devoted rural Michigan farm...
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3 Things Reporters Don’t Want You to Know
Newsrooms are crazy places to work. News never stops, yet staffs continue to shrink as budgets tighten. Reporters are asked to do a lot more with a lot less. Case in point: the Chicago Sun-Times cut...
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Listen: Do You Want to Know a Secret?
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”- Stephen R. Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Imagine that two people are talking to you at...
View ArticleCFI Shares Briefs that Focuses on the Social Impacts of GM Technology
CFI will be sharing a series of briefs called GMO: Beyond the Science published on GenecticLiteracyProject.org in social media throughout the first quarter of 2015. The series uses experts to explain...
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The latest from CFI...
It’s Time to Change the Conversation. Here’s How. “We’re feeding the world” is a mantra often used by those involved in farming and food to build support for modern food production systems. But the...
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