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Confusing and surprisingly contentious.

The campaign for “bird-friendly beef”

04.11.2022
Lynne Curry
Do you care if your meat came from the United States? USDA wants your feedback.
02.22.2022
by Matthew Sedacca
Decolonizing the GMO debate
12.16.2021
by Benjamin R. Cohen
USDA is facing a legal challenge over its new GMO labeling standards
12.07.2021
by Lela Nargi
Why’s it taken so long for foreign-language characters and words to make it into English cookbooks?
09.30.2021
by Rachel Baron
What’s the visual symbol for ‘pasture-raised’ meat? There isn’t one—yet.
08.10.2021
by Michael Waters
Chain restaurants are required to disclose calorie counts on menus. In the age of DoorDash, that’s not happening.
04.01.2021
by Jessica Fu
How a spice scammer allegedly fleeced the federal government out of thousands of dollars worth of garlic powder
01.27.2021
by H. Claire Brown
Federal agencies clash over who regulates genetically engineered meat
01.14.2021
by Jessica Fu
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