At 11:36 p.m. on Wednesday, a powerful undersea earthquake shook the Fukushima region of Japan, leaving thousands of homes without food and water. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings, then lifted them hours later once it appeared the damage had been contained. The world let out a collective sigh of relief. Eleven years ago this month, a much more powerful earthquake set off a catastrophic tsunami that killed more than 19,000 people and caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since then, exports of food and drink from the region were slowed to a halt. But last fall, after reviewing 10 years’ worth of data, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the way for those products to reenter the U.S. market, including rice, A5 wagyu, and sake, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. Will American diners, wary about eating food from the Fukushima region, stay away? Restaurant owners say they’re more concerned about supply chain issues—the earthquake on Wednesday forced factories in Fukushima to suspend operations, which will add to supply chain woes. —Mike Dang
Grist, an award-winning, nonprofit media organization dedicated to highlighting climate solutions and uncovering environmental injustices,…
Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse…
Highway 7 runs north-south through western Washington, carving its way through a landscape sparsely dotted…
One of the greatest pleasures I had as a child growing up in the Chicago…
Undocumented immigrants experience food insecurity at much higher rates than other populations, yet they are…
Writer Charlotte Druckman and editor Rebecca Flint Marx are both Jewish journalists living in New…