Supermarket

Spain is the world’s largest producer of olive oil. But since the global financial crisis prices have dropped by roughly 40 percent.

Natural foods supermarkets with huge aisles of organic produce and nutritional guarantees are sprouting up all over. Living On Earth producer Kim Motylewski went to the openings of two grand scale new markets to see who these new ventures will be benefiting. Chances are, competition will be driving some prices down, and consumers will be […]

In the 1990’s the cutting edge of environmentalism may be in the supermarkets. Environmentalists increasingly recognize the power of the consumer to reduce the impacts of everyday products. Polls indicate that green consumers are affluent, educated and female. Tom Verde reports on what they look for when they shop.

China’s tainted milk scare was certainly not the first time the world has seen a food safety scandal, nor is it likely to be the last.