Avocado Anxiety: how to choose what to eat They’re “not so bad”. Compared to what?
Louise Gray’s new book dives deep into the trade-offs that accompany every food choice we make, where nothing is as simple as it seems.
Tag: regulation
Whole grain labels sow confusion Do consumers know what labels mean?
We know what whole grain means. Whole grain food? Not so much.
The Hamlet Fire What an industrial accident tells us about industrial food
The Imperial Food Products fire wasn’t really an accident; circumstances conspired to make it extremely likely If it hadn’t happened in Hamlet, it would have happened somewhere else.
Resistance is fudgeable
Playing fast and loose with data is a sure sign that people know they’re wrong. Defenders of antibiotics in agriculture are no exception.
Antibiotics and agriculture Tackling the problem of antibiotic resistance at (one) source
Antibiotic resistance is one consequence of feeding animals large amounts of antibiotics — about three times the amount given to people in the US. Why is it so hard to regulate the use of antibiotics in agriculture, and how else might we tackle the problem?