Climate Food and Agriculture
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EDITOR’S NOTE
Grist has acquired the archive and brand assets of The Counter, a decorated nonprofit food and agriculture publication that we long admired, but that sadly ceased publishing in May of 2022.
The Counter had hit on a rich vein to report on, and we’re excited to not only ensure the work of the staffers and contractors of that publication is available for posterity, but to build on it. So we’re relaunching The Counter as a food and agriculture vertical within Grist, continuing their smart and provocative reporting on food systems, specifically where it intersects with climate and environmental issues. We’ve also hired two amazing new reporters to make our plan a reality.
Being back on the food and agriculture beat in a big way is critical to Grist’s mission to lead the conversation, highlight climate solutions, and uncover environmental injustices. What we eat and how it’s produced is one of the easiest entry points into the wider climate conversation. And from this point of view, climate change literally transforms into a kitchen table issue.
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The people who feed America are going hungry
Climate change is escalating a national crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs.
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This is where your plants will come from after the Ecopocalypse
Wired has posted a series of photos of seed vaults, storage units that bank tens of thousands of seeds in an attempt to preserve biodiversity against threats of extinction and climate change, and we can safely say they're the creepiest way of ensuring that species survive. This is some mad-science stuff!
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Food Studies: Try this at-home smell training course
Want to talk about wine without sounding like a snob? Grab some oak chips and butter extract and try this sensory exercise yourself.
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Heritage livestock: Milk ’em for all they’re worth
Interest in heirloom produce highlights efforts to preserve rare livestock breeds, endangered by a half-century of industrial farming.
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Food Studies: future terroir
What can the taste of place mean in a country only three and half times bigger than Washington D.C.?
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Buy a dozen, give a dozen
What happens when the TOMS Shoes -- get a pair, give a pair -- model gets applied to food? A New York program is trying it out with pastured eggs.
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Food Studies: the science of cookie texture
Water activity and moisture migration sound complex, but make all the difference between chewy and crispy cookies.
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Wall Street and ethanol cause starvation, say scientists
Today's supervillains are soooo boring. If only they'd wear tights and touch entrapped damsels’ hair in a way that made us uncomfortable, we'd be up for patriotically pistol-whipping them, Captain America style. Instead we find out that Wall Street and ethanol -- a diffuse network of trading computers and a colorless inebriant, respectively -- are the reason billions are going hungry in the developing world. How are we supposed to launch a hideously expensive vendetta-war against that?
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Could you go without processed foods for a month?
For even the most health conscious among us, a diet free of processed foods presents a challenge. Give it a try this month.
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Motor City mulch [VIDEO]
A Detroit couple leading the urban-ag uprising there explain how city folks have farmed for years, but "then, the hipsters came along."
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Is Walmart allergic to Pollan?
Food guru Michael Pollan goes toe-to-toe with a Walmart VP to ask: Can the processed food giant ever be a friend to food reformers?
