Food and Agriculture

California meat company shut down for abusing cows

Fair warning: There are no graphic images or videos, but even the language here is disconcerting.

Philip Bump Food

Don’t toss your cookies: Curbing the crisis of food waste

Almost half the food in the U.S. goes uneaten, and every part of the supply chain is to blame -- including you and me. But we can do better.

Dana Gunders Food

Beyond chicken patties: How to improve school lunch without spending more

As kids go back to school this month, cafeteria expert Kate Adamick is working with parents and school administrators to rethink school lunch budgeting in radical new ways.

Erin Sirianni Food

New guide helps you scrimp and save without eating toxic junk

Have you ever been shopping for groceries and wished someone would help you find the foods that are the least toxic and processed for the best price? A new guide does just that.

Twilight Greenaway Food

Amid drought, farmers flood social media

Parched farmers are using Twitter as a social-media-style rain gauge, a help line, and an open channel to their urban customers.

Christopher Weber Food

Feed 9 billion people? We can do that, but it’s not going to be pretty

Stanford biology professor Peter Vitousek says that our population bomb doesn't need to cause an all-out apocalypse.

Zachary Brown Food

Lawyers go after processed food industry with tactics that worked on Big Tobacco

In an effort to supplant government regulation, a group of high-profile lawyers plans to use the financial costs of obesity and diabetes to sue large processed food companies.

Tom Laskawy Food

Farmers are dealing with corn shortages by feeding cows candy instead

If you worry about the fact that cows eat so much corn, you might be happy to know that cows are now eating expired candy.

Sarah Miller Climate & Energy

Keeping the peace between beekeepers and their urban neighbors

As beekeeping becomes more popular in urban areas, some nearby residents are turning to vandalism. Experts share tips for beekeepers who want to get along with their neighbors.

Mary Catherine O’Connor Food

Deadly Salmonella outbreak in Kentucky linked to cantaloupe

Wash your melons, gang.