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If You Eat Cows, Why Not Golden Retrievers, Too?
Ever wondered why you jump at a turkey burger but not a swan sandwich? It's carnism. Psychologist Melanie Joy explains.
Environment
You Can't Be an Environmentalist and Eat Factory-Farmed Meat
Factory farming is killing the planet, and it's only getting worse. If you're an environmentalist, it's time to rethink your diet.
Lifestyle
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
The Planet Will House 10 Billion People, and We Can Feed Them All
Our population is going to grow by 3 billion people in the next century. But if we play our cards right, none of them will go hungry.
Lifestyle
2010: The Summer of Raw Food Raids
At 7 a.m. on June 30, 20 agents raided a Ventura County farmhouse and confiscated the family's computer. That same morning, the FDA and the FBI...
News
Farmworkers Dare Americans to "Take Our Jobs"
United Farm Workers and Stephen Colbert have teamed up to call for a new discussion of immigration reform by reminding Americans just what those...
Education
Repurposing Abandoned Schools Project Winner: A Farm to Table Urban Food Center
Caroline Hadilaksono turns an abandoned school into an "all-in-one ecosystem" where people can grow, distribute, and enjoy good food. See her design.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: The Atlas of Genetically Modified Crops
Where in the world are genetically modified crops grown?
Business
Ending Africa's Hungry Season: How Family Farms Are Driving Development
A social enterprise has found a way to give a leg up to sub-Saharan Africa's subsistence farmers.
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.
Business
Fighting Famines with Markets: In Ethiopia, an Exchange Empowers Rural Farmers
A modern commodity exchange improved the lot of Ethiopia's smallholder farmers. Now the model is spreading across Africa.
Lifestyle
A Rap Song for... Organic Milk?
Organic, sustainable dairy farming gets the hip-hop treatment. Listen and learn.
Lifestyle
Were Your Vegetables Picked by Child Laborers?
Were your vegetables picked by child laborers? Maybe. In a great new video, Human Rights Watch explores the dark side of U.S. agriculture laws.HRW...
Business
New Farmers Markets Provide Health, Jobs Boost
Going to a farmers market this weekend? Thanks! You're helping boost the American economy.
Environment
From Kansas to Kenya, Biochar Can Capture Carbon and Improve Soil
Biochar is a version of charcoal that helps permanently capture the carbon that plants suck from 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
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 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?
