Why Red Food Dye Is Banned, but Processed Meat Is Still Sold Without a Warning
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) effectively banned the use of Red Dye No. 3 in foods, citing concerns the additive may be carcinogenic — based on testing in rats. The push to ban...
View ArticleWhy Carbon Offsets Often Don’t Work, Explained
Shortly after taking office in January, President Trump issued a flurry of executive orders seeking to reverse or limit federal action on global warming, and cast doubt on the future of countless...
View ArticleHow Many Chickens Are Killed Every Year?
Sometime in the 2010s, chicken surpassed pork to become the most widely produced meat in the world. As of 2022, tens of billions of chickens are killed every year to feed humanity’s growing appetite...
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Why Eating Local Isn’t a Climate Solution
Among the most popular bits of advice for those seeking to reduce their carbon footprint is to “eat local.” But unfortunately, eating local is not a climate solution that packs much of a punch. When...
View ArticleWhat ‘Food Desert’ Means — and Why the Term Is Misleading
The Trump administration is taking greater control over who has access to food in this country. That’s bad news for those struggling to make ends meet: Several of President Trump’s new appointees have...
View ArticleTrump’s Plan to Lower Egg Prices, Explained
The avian flu outbreak is entering its fourth year, and egg prices are still sky-high. Donald Trump won the presidency in part on a pledge to lower egg prices, and in February, Secretary of...
View ArticleWhy Egg Farming Practices Spread Avian Flu
We’re in the fifth year of a worldwide avian flu outbreak, and there seems to be no end in sight. The standard containment measures haven’t been working, and as a result, egg prices are at record...
View ArticleSmithfield Foods Is Owned by China, but Pollution and Price-Fixing Are the...
The largest pork producer in America is owned by a Chinese company, and a lot of people don’t like that. Critics of the corporate acquisition that took place in 2013 argued that Smithfield Foods’...
View ArticleOverfishing Harms the Environment. Is There a Way Out?
The global population is projected to hit at least 8.5 billion people by the end of the decade. As more of us become aware of the disastrous environmental impacts of livestock production, some...
View ArticleWhat Food Webs Are & How Cattle Ranching Harms Them
Beef production has steadily been rising over the last half-century. Unfortunately, so has the environmental destruction that it causes. Cattle ranching requires the wholesale eradication of natural...
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