Placed in historical perspective, the popular opposition to things like GMOs and vaccines, much like 19th-century opposition to fertilizers and insecticides, reflects less an overt rejection of science than a distrust of experts who peddle it.
Is it possible for us to provide a bit of humane treatment to livestock? They may have to prove they can fly first.
The hidden pipeline for America’s mystery meat may start at home.
The response to an especially ugly round-up of wild horses in Oregon suggests we might.
What the company can learn from its recent E. coli outbreak.
On causal impotence and whether consumer choice even matters when it comes to our global food system.
No group has better mapped and internalized the geography of waste—or been bolder about wading into the cesspools where trash accumulates.
New data on vegetable consumption raises a question we too easily overlook.
To understand the outrage over the Volkswagen scandal and recall, consider the meat industry.
Yes, but don’t mention them to Fido.
Yes, but not one that allows us to eat them.
Meet Arthur Haines, the neo-aboriginal Mainer who is turning paleo fantasy into optimistic reality.
Not much, according to a new study.
Pigs have personalities, and a curiously compelling history of domestication. But that doesn’t mean we’re ever going to stop eating them.
Calls for an end to industrialized agriculture are everywhere, but factory farms continue to grow in both size and influence. Where are we going wrong?
You’re never going to reduce food waste with “solutions” that are inaccessible to most of us.
An advocacy group uncovers shocking conditions in the country’s largest rabbit processing plant, raising questions about why the USDA and its Humane Slaughter Act do nothing to protect a whole class of animals.
Not really, but you should still be ashamed about eating water-hogging foods.
The problem isn’t industrial agriculture. It’s domestication.
Unfortunately, the market wasn’t very local at all. Everyone interested in the Food Movement and locally sourced meat should remember that small farmers plugged into local economics aren’t somehow ipso facto honest farmers.
