Jill Ettinger

1 week ago | vegnews.com | Jill Ettinger

At the Trader Joe’s on Hyperion Avenue in Los Angeles, there’s a ritual that locals know well. Shoppers brave the parking lot—voted one of the worst in the city—sometimes before the sun rises, for first dibs on seasonal items: everything from tiny tote bags to that cultish green goddess salad dressing that never seems to stay on shelves long.

2 weeks ago | vegnews.com | Jill Ettinger

If the numbers hold, this could be one of the worst years on record for US honey bees. Preliminary data from commercial beekeepers suggest colony losses may exceed even those of 2006, when a mysterious syndrome known as Colony Collapse Disorder sent pollination rates into freefall and decimated hive populations nationwide. Nearly two decades later, experts are warning of a familiar, if more complex, collapse.

1 month ago | vegnews.com | Jill Ettinger

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”When writer Michael Pollan first strung those seven words together in his 2008 book In Defense of Food, they felt almost too simple to be serious. In a nation obsessed with diet codes, fad cleanses, and miracle cures, he wasn’t promising transformation, thinness, or longevity. He didn’t traffic in numbers or buzzwords, he didn’t cite the glycemic index. He merely suggested that we pay attention to what we put in our bodies.

1 month ago | vegnews.com | Jill Ettinger

The metal cans always caught the light beneath the flickering grocery fluorescents, nestled between aisles of sprouted bread and nutritional yeast. There, somewhere between the carob chips and organic carrots, sat Loma Linda. Not the town, but the vegan meat brand named after it—shelf-stable, plant-based canned meat analogues. Despite their unassuming packaging, those cans loomed large, suggesting something bigger was inside.

1 month ago | vegnews.com | Jill Ettinger

Khloé Kardashian’s entrance into the functional snack aisle is hard to miss. The launch of Khloud Popcorn—billed as a protein-rich, “clean” snack, available at Target and direct from its own online storefront—looks like a smart move, at least on paper. Kardashian’s reach is formidable, with more than 310 million Instagram followers, and the functional foods category is booming.