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Study: Fad Diets Work (But Not Why You Think)
What's the best diet to follow to get healthy—should you go Paleo, low glycemic, low-carb, Mediterranean, or low-fat? For a paper released last month in the Annual Review of Public Health, Yale medical...
View ArticleIn Cargill's Chicken Factories in China, Workers "Live on the Farm" and...
In a wide-ranging interview with the India-based Economic Times, Cargill CEO David MacLennan talks about how the globe-spanning agribusiness giant managed to turn the 2008 economic crisis into a...
View ArticleHow Food Marketers Made Butter the Enemy
James McWilliams—a historian who has made a name for himself in prestigious publications like the New York Times and The Atlantic for his contrarian defenses of the food industry—is back at it. In an...
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Tom's Kitchen: Stir-Fried Beef With Celery, Carrots, and Kohlrabi
This recipe owes its existence to the confluence of three unrelated events:• At the very end of a busy recent trip to San Francisco, I ate lunch at a restaurant called Mission Chinese, a hipster homage...
View ArticleA Single Pot Plant Uses HOW Much Water?!
Like college sophomores philosophizing over bong hits late at night, the California North Coast's booming marijuana farms languish in the smoky haze of paradox. On the one hand, they're...
View ArticleMonsanto GM Soy Is Scarier Than You Think
Soybeans are the second-largest US crop after corn, covering about a quarter of American farmland. We grow more soybeans than any other country except Brazil. According to the US Department of...
View ArticleWhy American Apples Just Got Banned in Europe
Back in 2008, European Food Safety Authority began pressing the chemical industry to provide safety information on a substance called diphenylamine, or DPA. Widely applied to apples after harvest, DPA...
View ArticleVermont to Require GMO Labeling
When Maine and Connecticut passed laws last year requiring the labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients, there was a catch: They withheld implementation "until other states pass...
View ArticleAre Your Delicious, Healthy Almonds Killing Bees?
California dominates almond production like Saudi Arabia wishes it dominated oil. More than 80 percent of the almonds consumed on Planet Earth hail from there. Boosted by surging demand from...
View ArticleChicken Nuggets, With a Side of Respiratory Distress
Think you have it tough at work? Imagine taking a post at a factory-scale poultry slaughterhouse. Chicken carcasses whiz by at the rate of 140 per minute, requiring repetitive hand motions with sharp...
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