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The Language of Junk-Food Addiction: How to 'Read' a Potato Chip Michael Moss

The Language of Junk-Food Addiction: How to 'Read' a Potato Chip

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us author Michael Moss discusses just how apt the Lay's slogan "Betcha can't eat just one" is.

Edible Education 101: A Complete Course on Modern Food Production Shutterstock

Edible Education 101: A Complete Course on Modern Food Production

We've gathered all of the lectures from Michael Pollan's Berkeley class in which the bestseller introduced students to several food A-listers

In Northeast Kansas City, Refugees Put Down New Roots Joe Fassler

In Northeast Kansas City, Refugees Put Down New Roots

How an innovative training garden outside of the oldest public housing project in Kansas is changing the way an entire community eats

Factory Farms vs. Video Activists: Who Will Control What We See? CALM Action/flickr

Factory Farms vs. Video Activists: Who Will Control What We See?

Iowa's attempt to ban undercover videographers from documenting animal cruelty is merely the latest battle in an ongoing war

Flavor Flav vs. KFC: A Dispatch From Flav's Fried Chicken Joe Fassler

Flavor Flav vs. KFC: A Dispatch From Flav's Fried Chicken

Why on earth did a rapper and reality TV star pick small-town Iowa as the launchpad for a fast food franchise?

Conventional vs. Organic: An Ag Secretary Race to Watch Herkie/flickr; Karlfrankowski/flickr

Conventional vs. Organic: An Ag Secretary Race to Watch

Iowa's too-close-to-call Secretary of Agriculture race shows that sustainability is gaining ground—even in the Farm Belt

Timeline of Shame: Decades of DeCoster Egg Factory Violations CALM Action/flickr

Timeline of Shame: Decades of DeCoster Egg Factory Violations

Interviews reveal the criminal past of the man who gave us the 2010 egg recall—a man who would "screw even his best friend to the wall for a buck"

Before Iowa's Tainted Eggs, There Was Maine David Silverman/Getty Images

Before Iowa's Tainted Eggs, There Was Maine

DeCoster eggs were infecting people 22 years before the recent Salmonella outbreak. But Maine cracked down.

In Iowa Egg Country: Stench, Suspicion, and Fear Joe Fassler

In Iowa Egg Country: Stench, Suspicion, and Fear

People in Clarion don't like what the huge DeCoster-owned chicken and hog factories have done to their community—and don't like talking about it, either

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