Eating

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from a look at how insurance companies are turning on homeowners in fire-prone regions to a write-up of a new report on how to change eating behavior.

Is the world finally ready for cellular agriculture, meat grown in a laboratory, or whatever else the latest marketing attempts are calling it?

Are we any closer to thinking clearly about dog meat?

Yes, but don’t mention them to Fido.

Yes, but not one that allows us to eat them.

On our farms, in our stores, and at our dining tables, aesthetics and efficiency are at war. Everybody loses.

The answer is a very qualified yes.

Maybe! Here’s why we should care.

Meet Arthur Haines, the neo-aboriginal Mainer who is turning paleo fantasy into optimistic reality.

Our food choices are determined in part by gender stereotypes. But new research finds we can turn this to our advantage.

Women eat in a manner more consistent with normative femininity when in the presence of a male versus a female companion.

Researchers have long documented problems with McDonald's, but it wasn't until they began showing how the restaurants aimed at children and made people overweight that the American public paid attention.

How the rhetoric of disgust undermines responsible food choices.

Research shows that when you eat can be as important as what you eat.

The incredible rise of the strawberry highlights the power of massive marketing campaigns.

Women who got menu ideas from such programs had a higher BMI than those who did not.

New research looks at intriguing parallels between human parenting styles and styles of pet ownership.

To cheer for a team, or a sport, is to become part of a larger social phenomenon. Food is another—important—part of that shared identity.

A study finds college kids like foods they were served as children—even if they hated them at the time.

Depending on your socioeconomic situation, you might think 2014 was the year of kale and the at-home amateur chef, but the only trend that the majority of us actually followed en masse was an unfortunate continuation of the standard American diet.

How the words on a bag of food create more questions than answers.

The National School Lunch Program aims to deliver affordable and nutritious meals to our schoolchildren, but it usually only meets one of those goals.

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

Thinking ahead to an altruistic deed we plan to do may dampen our desire for fattening foods.