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Diet Differently: Shed Weight by Maximizing Your Flavor Per Calorie The Next Web/flickr

Diet Differently: Shed Weight by Maximizing Your Flavor Per Calorie

Culinary Intelligence tells the story of one New York magazine food writer who dropped 40 pounds and still managed to live life to the fullest.

The Most Sweeping Anti-Cruelty Policy in the Food Service Industry Shutterstock

The Most Sweeping Anti-Cruelty Policy in the Food Service Industry

The Bon Appetit Management Company hopes it has grown large enough to demand change from the ranchers and farmers it buys from.

Restaurant A: How Bill Marler Tied Taco Bell to Salmonella Outbreaks Reuters

Restaurant A: How Bill Marler Tied Taco Bell to Salmonella Outbreaks

A recent outbreak sickened 68 people, but the CDC refused to make the name of the source of the contaminated food available to the public.

The Hub: A Promising Experiment in Food Processing for Small Farms Mad River Food Hub

The Hub: A Promising Experiment in Food Processing for Small Farms

A solution for farmers that can't afford the big state-of-the-art equipment required to process, store, and distribute their meat and produce.

Methyl Iodide: The Cancer-Causing Chemical Behind Your Food Shutterstock

Methyl Iodide: The Cancer-Causing Chemical Behind Your Food

Despite protests, the EPA approved the use of this potent poison years ago, but a lawsuit moving through the courts could change that.

The EPA's Weak Stance on Nasty, Immune System-Wrecking Dioxins Shutterstock

The EPA's Weak Stance on Nasty, Immune System-Wrecking Dioxins

Only after a decade of analysis, and long after the WHO and EU, will the EPA release a risk assessment of dioxins in our food supply.

Feedlots vs. Pastures: Two Very Different Ways to Fatten Beef Cattle Barry Estabrook

Feedlots vs. Pastures: Two Very Different Ways to Fatten Beef Cattle

Raising cattle on pasture is inherently more challenging than fattening them on feedlots, but many feel the results are worth the extra effort.

How Much of Your Food Labeled as Organic Is Actually Organic? Shutterstock

How Much of Your Food Labeled as Organic Is Actually Organic?

The USDA keeps a list of inorganic products that can legally go into foods labeled organic, but new board members could change things

Organic Can Feed the World Shutterstock

Organic Can Feed the World

Given that current production systems leave nearly one billion people undernourished, the onus should be on the agribusiness industry to prove its model, not the other way around

Bi-Rite Market: Pioneer in the New Farm-to-Grocery Store Movement Ten Speed Press

Bi-Rite Market: Pioneer in the New Farm-to-Grocery Store Movement

In a new book that's part recipe collection, part culinary manifesto, Sam Mogannam exposes readers to his popular San Francisco store

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