Food and Agriculture

Can ‘veggie prescriptions’ really make people healthier?

Better access to fruits and vegetables is key, but recent science suggests that lowering exposure to BPA, pthalates, and other endocrine disruptors might be just as important.

Tom Laskawy Food

Could this 5-by-5 inch piece of paper reduce food waste by 25 percent?

FreshPaper claims their botanical-infused 5-by-5-inch sheet can make produce last five times longer, cutting down wasted food. But does it work?

Jess Zimmerman Food

200 naked Germans buying groceries

When a German store offered $276 in free groceries to anyone willing to shop naked, 250 brave souls dropped trou.

Jess Zimmerman Food

After the Rio Earth Summit: Will agriculture really get any greener?

Global food production may have inched toward becoming more sustainable at last week's Earth Summit. Or not. We probably won't know either way until the next Summit.

Twilight Greenaway Agriculture

Cheeseburger-crust pizza is not even recognizable as pizza

We need to think of a new name for the monstrosities that pizza companies are coming up with, because, really, this is NOT pizza: Pizza Hut is selling this mutant creature in the Middle East, where, if the ad is to be believed, ordering a hamburger at a pizza place is a GIANT AND HILARIOUS […]

Sarah Laskow Food

Would you eat lab-grown meat?

What if you could eat meat without causing animals to suffer? Take our survey.

Lisa Hymas Food and Agriculture

No, genetically modified grass isn’t killing cows with cyanide

A more likely (if unproven) culprit: the drought in Texas.

Philip Bump Agriculture

Have sledgehammer, will farm

We've covered a lot of good farmland with concrete over the years. But taking it back for urban farming may not be as difficult as it sounds.

Heather Smith Agriculture

Meatifest destiny: How Big Meat is taking over the Midwest

With more factory farms, bigger meat processing facilities, and growing numbers of immigrant workers, it looks like Cargill and Co. might be priming the Midwest to produce meat for the world.