Sustainability Matters: September 25, 2015

Crop diversity in the U.S. is now lower than it was in 1978. [Modern Farmer] 

The FDA is ramping up their push to include added sugars in the new nutrition label. [WaPo] 

Nature vs. nurture: a handful of companies in the U.S. are trying to breed a tastier cricket. [The Atlantic] 

A new study suggests eating more fish could help prevent depression. [TIME] 

Purchasing whole animals for their meat is more sustainable, but few people have the space at home. A town in upstate New York thinks communal meat lockers could be the solution. [NPR] 

New York City’s ban on styrofoam containers has been overturned by the State Supreme Court. [MUNCHIES] 

Courts have sentenced Stewart Parnell of the Peanut Corporation of America to 28 years in prison, the harshest sentence ever handed down for a food safety violation. [Mother Jones]