food
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Small fry: The case for smaller fish portions
New science says smaller fillets are more sustainable -- but not just for the reasons you'd expect.
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A snake in the Olive Garden
Olive Garden and Red Lobster's parent company, The Darden Group, has pledged publicly to make their food healthier. But will it make any real difference?
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FDA: It's corn syrup, now shut up and own it
The Corn Refiners Association has noticed that "corn syrup" is becoming kind of a dirty word. They could improve the product, perhaps, but that would be hard, so they decided to just rename it "corn sugar." But the FDA, which is in charge of things like what counts as "sugar," is having none of it.
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USDA, FDA get an F on livestock antibiotics
The government's own watchdog highlights the near complete lack of real, systematic response to Big Ag's dangerous drug habit.
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Food Studies: biting off more than he can chew?
After a summer spent cooking, volunteering, and teaching, Josh struggles to choose just one food topic to explore in his senior essay at Yale.
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Peebottle Farms: Chicken run
In which our heroine travels to a real farm and resists buying a dozen laying hens -- but settles for a half-dozen.
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Where the buffalo roamed [VIDEO]
Almost halfway through our six-month, food-focused journey across America, we found a place we didn't want to leave.
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Food Studies: The pen is as mighty as the plow
Meet Claire, who is combining ink-stained fingers with a green thumb at the University of Minnesota.
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Food fighters: Don't give up on the farm bill
The upcoming farm bill won't be the watershed moment we've been waiting for. But it still provides an opportunity for food reformers to become sophisticated policy players.