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Altering the price of seven particular foods could prevent tens of thousands of deaths each year in the United States, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University...

Good riddance “lunch shaming” — the practice of holding children accountable for school lunch bills. Starting this school year in New York City, all 1.1 million students who attend public schools will receive their...

What if your entire city adhered to a vegetarian diet? Recently elected Turin mayor Chiara Appendino pledged that promoting vegetarian diets will be a "priority" for her...

Photo via Shutterstock Could the world’s supply of fertile soil really run out? That’s the question posed by TIME Magazine in a recent Q & A with University of Sydney professor John Crawford, and as far-fetched...

Eating “Local Food” is an appealing ideal in theory, but it runs into several “reality issues.”  As much as people might want locally produced food, there are practical issues of land availability,...

I was thinking of doing a post with a title like ‘In defense of cows’ or something along those lines.  This is not just because I’m a sort of carnivorous and contrarian guy (which I am), but because cows...

In my last post, I wrote about Nathan McClintock’s research on the potential of alternative food to enhance social justice in economically impoverished neighborhoods.

Before you feed your libido with a vitamin C-packed glass of orange juice, you might want to consider reaching for the whole fruit instead. In her recent book, Squeezed: What You Don’t Know About Orange Juice, Alissa...

A recent E.U. study found that rats who’s diets included different strains of Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) corn experienced kidney, liver, and other organ damage. Read more of this story »

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Today we will be touring a farm of the future that employs the state-of-the-art farming methods that have been developed over decades of effort by growers, academic researchers, extension agents, and technology companies...

For all California residents with a hankering for trans-fats, today may be your last day to get them, at least as easily as you could before.  A law signed in 2008 takes effect January 1, 2010 that bans retail food establishments,...

At least 19 people in 16 states have gotten sick from E. coli-contaminated beef, and the company that produced these steaks is issuing a recall. Read more of this story »