industrial food

Can’t quit meat? This meatless burger wants to help.

A handful of startups are getting closer to the perfect plant patty.

Celebrate America by avoiding our national embarrassment: Hot dogs

DOWN WITH TUBE MEAT.

Chicken farm crates are basically never cleaned

If a bite of food falls on the ground, often we pick it up and eat it. Five second rule, right? But if it falls in something gross or we haven’t cleaned the floor in awhile, we don’t eat it. Because that’s gross. Especially if your floor is covered in chicken shit. It’s unclear, then, […]

Red color in Texas river turns out to be pig blood

Apologies for starting off y’all’s Monday mornings on the grossest note possible, but this story was too appalling not to share. In Texas, near Dallas, an amateur drone pilot snapped a pic of a suspiciously red creek. (Weird, we know! But just get past that bit.) The drone pilot decided it was suspicious enough to […]

Food Studies: Canvolution!

Canning is hip again, a century after it first caught on -- but for very different reasons.

Big Food exerts unhealthy influence on America's nutritionists

If their annual conference is any indication, the organization that defines nutrition in this country -- The American Dietetic Association -- works very closely with processed-food titans like Monsanto, Hershey's, Coca-Cola, and Cargill.

Baby steps: USDA tiptoes toward fighting animal cruelty

The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service takes an important step to crack down on livestock abuse. But there's still more work to be done.

Who really benefits from the egg industry deal?

An agreement between the Humane Society and United Egg Producers to seek federal legislation for better henhouse conditions is still a long way from having any real effect.

The American diet in one chart, with lots of fats and sugars

This is a non-interactive version of the chart. Also check out the interactive version, by Civil Eats and the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism News21 course.Over on Civil Eats, Andrea Jezovit has put together a terrific interactive chart on the U.S. diet. Using USDA data for “average daily calories available per capita, adjusted for spoilage […]