Nutrition & Wellness
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How eggs became a victory for the animal welfare movement
Fifteen years ago, few Americans other than farmers seemed to be thinking much about hens. Backyard chicken coops weren’t really a thing. No major animal rights group spent time or money on farm animal welfare. “Factory farming” wasn’t yet a catchphrase. No longer. In recent years, there Read More...
Let them eat bugs: US startup sees future of sustainable food in creepy crawlies
The experiment started inside the laundry room of an apartment in Atlanta, Georgia, where the two college students created a nursery for 700 larvae of black soldier flies they bought on Amazon for $20. Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga weren’t raising the writhing bugs as pets. They were Read More...
Italians show their love for food with new law
The procedure for donating food can be so full of risk and barriers that it deters restaurants and supermarkets from giving away food. Laws prevented donating food marginally past its sell-by date, and business could face sanctions if they did. In Italy however, that is no longer the case. Read More...
Those pigs in Westminster: inside London's most central urban farm
If you stand on a planter made from old potato boxes in London’s most central city farm, you can see the flag flying from the Houses of Parliament. As a military helicopter rumbles overhead, two lambs caper around the yard. A pregnant sow snores in the shade. The animals seem remarkably blase Read More...
Organic food fights back against 'non-gmo' rival
I did a little experiment the other day. I stood outside a Whole Foods Market in Washington, DC, with two cartons of large brown eggs. One carton had the words "Non-GMO Project Verified" on it, with a little orange butterfly. It also said cage-free. The other carton had a different label; a green Read More...
Italy adopts new law to slash food waste
Italy has passed into law a raft of new measures to try to reduce the mountain of food wasted in the country each year. The bill - backed by 181 Senators, with two against and 16 abstaining - aims to cut waste one million tonnes from the estimated five million it wastes each year. It has been Read More...
Turn nutrition labels into data visualizations you can use to make better food decisions
Only about half of Americans read nutrition labels on food, and even fewer say they fully understand them—or what unpronounceable ingredients like "polydimethylsiloxane" actually mean. A new food data platform attempts to make things clearer, using bright visualizations that explain what you're Read More...
A food truck is delivering donated produce to California farm workers
On an April afternoon in California’s lush Salinas Valley, a group of crop-pickers watched as a small, refrigerated truck approached their field. The truck parked, and out hopped six people. The workers looked on in shock as the team of mystery benefactors handed them bag after bag of fresh, Read More...
The 'bleeding' vegan burger is now on the menu in America
Meet the most convincing meatless burger yet, the product of more than $180 million in funding and years of research. The magic of this plant-based burger is that it has a pinkish hue, and actually ‘bleeds’ like a real burger does thanks to an ingredient called heme, an iron-rich molecule that Read More...
How Hampton Creek's plant-based foods have scrambled the grocery aisle
From Silicon Valley to SoMa, the Bay Area is packed with blockbuster companies that were built on little more than a good idea. But there’s only one that was built on a condiment. Three years ago, Hampton Creek’s Just Mayo, which swaps a protein derived from Canadian yellow peas for the eggs Read More...