Articles by Tom Philpott
Tom Philpott was previously Grist's food writer. He now writes for Mother Jones.
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The price of cheap Walmart eggs? Mummified hens and tainted eggs
Atrocious sanitary conditions prevailed within the factory-scale facilities responsible for the egg recall. But the structure of the U.S. food market and the companies that benefit from its consolidation are far more to blame than any one egg tycoon.
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After a half billion bad eggs get released, the FDA reveals filthy conditions of Wright County Egg
There's nothing like an egg salmonella outbreak to inspire FDA inspectors to deliver blunt, graphic reports from inside the industrial food system
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Grist deputy food editor lands insightful op-ed on salmonella scare
Why does Europe have fewer food scares than we do? Grist deputy food editor Bonnie Powell lays it out in a Reuters op-ed.
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Iowa ag secretary boasted of state's vast egg industry, failed to regulate it
Why was Wright County Egg owner Jack DeCoster allowed to run a massive feed mill completely unregulated by the state of Iowa?
