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Trick-or-treating is cancelled, per CDC. The candy industry convinced us to buy record-breaking amounts of candy anyway.

09.24.2020
Sam Bloch
A novel, effective way to keep produce fresh? Put an egg on it.
07.16.2020
by Jessica Fu
Exposure to foods in the womb can shape our preferences as adults
02.06.2020
by The Counter
“Small chickens” in demand as more competitors add fried chicken sandwiches to menus
01.31.2020
by The Counter
New study shows the EAT-Lancet diet is unaffordable for at least 1.6 billion people
11.07.2019
by H. Claire Brown
A startup just announced the world’s first fake-meat “steaks” made from fungi. Are we ready?
10.29.2019
by Joe Fassler
Heard of books, butlers, lifters, or flat irons? Spoiler alert: They’re all the same steak.
10.01.2019
by Marilyn Noble
The “eat less meat” movement is growing. Does it distort science?
09.05.2019
by Lynne Curry
The bowls at Chipotle and Sweetgreen are supposed to be compostable. They contain cancer-linked “forever chemicals.”
08.05.2019
by Joe Fassler
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