Obama and the GOP Congress Unite to Push US Meat Overseas
The US meat industry has a problem: American consumers have been eating less flesh. The solution is straightforward: find meat-ravenous people overseas. The opening of the China market to US-grown pork...
View ArticleWill This New GMO Potato Take Off? McDonald's Has Spoken
Would you be excited to pluck a bag of precut, gleaming-white potato slices from supermarket produce bin—fresh not frozen, and ready to throw in the pan or the FryDaddy?Your answer may decide the fate...
View ArticleIs Dianne Feinstein Crafting a Secret Water Deal to Help Big Pistachio? UPDATED
UPDATE: Sen. Dianne Feinstein has called off her backroom negotiations to push a California water bill through the current, lame-duck Congressional session, The Fresno Bee reported late Thursday...
View ArticleBrazil's Dietary Guidelines Are So Much Better Than the USDA's
As anyone who has read Marion Nestle's Food Politics or Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food knows, the US Department of Agriculture's attempts to issue dietary advice have always been haunted by...
View ArticleTom's Kitchen: Gratin of Hearty Greens
I'm a greens fanatic: mustards, kale, collards, chard, you name it. I eat them in some form more or less every day, sometimes more than once. At this point, a meal—even (or especially) something as...
View ArticleThe Looming Olive Oil Apocalypse
The world's most celebrated olive oil comes from sun-drenched groves of Italy. But Italy is also a hotbed of olive oil subterfuge, counterfeit, and adulteration—and has been since Roman times, as Tom...
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