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Think the Southwest’s Drought Is Bad Now? It Could Last a Generation or More
Late-summer 2014 has brought uncomfortable news for residents of the US Southwest—and I'm not talking about 109-degree heat in population centers like Phoenix.A new study by Cornell University, the...
View ArticleHäagen-Dazs Says It Won't Use Fake DNA in Ice Cream
The Swiss firm Evolva is on the verge of bringing a novel vanilla-flavoring ingredient into the world: one neither grown on a tropical tree nor synthesized from petroleum. Evolva's version of...
View ArticleThe Rich Are Eating Richer, the Poor Are Eating Poorer
Over the past decade, the number of farmers markets nationwide has approximately doubled, and the community-supported agriculture model of farming, where people buy shares in the harvest of a nearby...
View ArticleHow Superbugs Hitch a Ride From Hog Farms Into Your Community
Factory-scale farms don't just house hundreds of genetically similar animals in tight quarters over vast cesspools collecting their waste. They also house a variety of bacteria that live within those...
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Is Farm Aid Still Relevant?
Farm Aid, the annual, roving concert anchored by Willie Nelson and Neil Young, launched in 1985, amid the steepest US farm crisis since the Great Depression. Twenty-nine years later, is it still...
View ArticleButterball Goes "Humane" for Thanksgiving. Really?
It's becoming a Thanksgiving tradition as hoary as NFL football or the bloviations of your drunken uncle: days before the national feast, an animal-welfare group releases an undercover video...
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