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The Inconvenient Truth About Cheap Food and Obesity: It's Not Farm Subsidies
Stop blaming farm subsides for making unhealthy food cheap and causing the sky-rocketing obesity rates.
Lifestyle
Since 1995, GOP Congresspeople Have Received More Than $5 Million in Farm Subsidies
Democrats have received less than a tenth of that. But the debate over farm subsidies is complicated.
Lifestyle
Radishes in Suburbia: Documenting Urban Growth and the End of a Family Farm
Threatened by sprawl, a fourth-generation family farmer documents his doomed way of life with time-lapse video.
Lifestyle
Point and Shoot: Is It Legal to Take Pictures of Factory Farms?
As authorities in Florida try to make taking photos of farms illegal, James Reeves traces the law's Red Scare roots and offers some legal tips.
Lifestyle
Food Studies: The Trouble with Land-Grant Universities
150 years ago, the government founded land-grant universities to keep agriculture alive in the U.S. What should they be teaching today?
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: Strawberry Dust Devil Ballet
Watch this moment of unexpected beauty, as a mini-tornado lifts plastic sheeting off a strawberry field and twirls it through the air.
Lifestyle
Feeding the Tiny Humans of the Future: Amsterdam's Disproportionate Restaurant
A new restaurant explores the way genetically-engineered one-and-a-half foot tall humans might cook, eat, and farm.
Lifestyle
The Coffee Boosters: A Conversation with Sean Bonner of Coffee Common
Your daily brew just got a lot more amazing thanks to this new collaborative awareness campaign, launched at TED last week.
Lifestyle
Chart: The Complicated Relationship Between Ethanol and Corn Production
Conventional wisdom says that growing corn to produce ethanol contributes to harmful food price spikes. But it's not that simple.
Lifestyle
Food Studies: Meet Claire, Who Combines Her MFA in Creative Writing with a Minor in Sustainable Agriculture
GOOD's sixth Food Studies blogger is Claire, who's reporting on propane-powered weed torches and baby-plant spaceships from snowy Minnesota.
Cities
Big Ideas from TED 2011: A Construction Set for Civilization
Marcin Jakubowski is trying to create robust, modular versions of the 50 machines that every modern community needs.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: 16 Cents of Each Dollar You Spend on Food Goes to the Farm. What Happens to the Rest?
A new report from the USDA reveals the economic underpinnings of our food system.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: The Atlas of Genetically Modified Crops
Where in the world are genetically modified crops grown?
Lifestyle
Mapping Race, Gender, and Class in the Food Supply Chain
A new report details a shocking litany of injustices across the food chain, from pesticide poisonings to enormous wage gaps—and a silver lining.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: A Tree Made From Sausages
Vintage photos from a food and agriculture trade show capture today's innovations—vertical farming and fruit-vending machines—yesterday.
Lifestyle
Best of the Blogs: Mammoth's Backyard Farm Service
Grow-your-own is great, but not all of us have the time. What if we re-purposed the lawn service industry to tend a distributed backyard farm network?
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: The Concrete Corn Field of Dublin, Ohio
On the landscaped lawns of a corporate office park in Ohio, 109 human-sized concrete ears of corn memorialize the region's lost agricultural heritage.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: The Grand Finale
Recipes for transgenic foods, the ethics of cyborg Jainism, lunar agriculture, and Harry Potter at the farmers' market: food for future thinkers.
