Food and Agriculture

Don't eat your broccoli: Junk food industry determined to target kids

Government agencies are set to release voluntary suggestions for how Big Food could less slimy in its advertising. The industry is pushing back.

Michele Simon Food

High steaks: Meat eaters' climate impact

The Environmental Working Group released the Meat Eaters Guide to Climate Change + Health, and it contains surprises for climate-conscious eaters.

Tom Laskawy Food

Elevate your ice cream

How healthy is your ice cream? Find out with this sweet flowchart.

Be Food Smart Food

Organic farming is not really better for you or the planet [UPDATE: Or is it?]

Science writer Christie Wilcox lays out the top myths about organic farming in Scientific American, and they might surprise you:

Jess Zimmerman Agriculture

Twins' desert solitaire with organic veggies [VIDEO]

In Utah canyon country, 70-year-old twins Bill and Bob Stone live off the grid, grow organic vegetables, and give tours of Native American ruins.

Daniel Klein Food

Would you eat mutant meat?

The FDA does Big Meat a solid by denying broader use of irradiation, which kills disease but leads to discolored and disfigured food.

Tom Laskawy Agriculture

Hacking for the planet

Notorious hacker group Anonymous launches a campaign of cyber attacks in support of green causes. Monsanto fell. Are Canada's tar sands next?

Ted Alvarez Agriculture

Michigan’s gangsta gardener gets off [VIDEO]

Julie Bass of Oak Park, Mich. no longer faces jail time for having a vegetable garden in her front yard.

Claire Thompson Agriculture

Jail time for gardening: Now officially a trend

Hey, remember the woman threatened with 93 days in jail for growing a garden in her front yard? She could have a cellmate! Dirk Becker of Lantzville, British Columbia turned his scraped-dry gravel pit of a property into a thriving organic farm, so of course he's facing six months of jail time. Why? Well, the thing is, this farm was full of DIRT. You can't have dirt in a yard! It's unsanitary.