Fast food blues
Not only is fast food bad for your physical health but there is mounting scientific evidence that your mental health also suffers.
Ryan budget: A nightmare in the making
House Republicans approved a budget that is far worse than any reasonable person could, up to now, have imagined would ever come out of a U.S. Congress.
Farewell to McRib (at least for now)
The famous McRib pork patty once again made a brief appearance at a McDonald's near you for a brief three weeks.
It's time for politically, and morally, correct meat
Science has come up with a method by which we can satisfy our perverse desire to eat animal flesh without actually killing animals.
Food deficits, deadlier than budget deficits
Living on a farm makes me think long and deep about food deficits here at home and around the world, deficits far more menacing than budget deficits.
Salt, health, and socialism
An Australian research team found that when the state imposes mandatory limits to the amount of salt private industry adds to processed foods, people are healthier.
Another chicken and egg story
Given the need to feed a growing world population, what kind of farming is viable and sustainable today?
Factory farms produce more than eggs
In the early 1970s, I took a job at a brand new "industrial" hen house in Indiana.
Americans are dying to eat
Despite evidence that they may cause cancer, food manufacturers continue to pour about 15 million pounds of eight synthetic dyes into the American food supply every year.
The war on antibiotics
Without strict new regulations, the way beef, poultry, and pork are produced in America could rob us of effective antibiotics.
