Food and Agriculture

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.

Philip Bump Food

This man knows when you’re lying about honey

Did you know that people sell fake honey? They take supermarket honey and try to pass it off as fancy stuff you get for $30 at a farmers market. Is nothing sacred anymore? Luckily they don’t always get away with it, thanks to honey detective Vaughn Bryant. By day, he’s an anthropologist, and a regular […]

Sarah Miller Food

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