The documentary Gun Fish opens at an official Tokyo facility dedicated to removing poison from fugu … the general Japanese ...

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GOP rising star Kat Cammack drops by to talk with Theodore and Helena about the future of the farm bill, her perspective on SNAP fraud and errors, why some government regulation is BS, how MAHA and ...

Last month, with great fanfare, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled the new dietary guidelines for Americans. The advice was muddled—eat more meat but not more saturated fat!—and likely shaped by the very ...

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Do nations have the right to determine their own food policies? Can they make laws to safeguard domestic agriculture, public health, the environment, and the genetic integrity of the national diet? If ...

This this past February, as Super Bowl viewers chowed down on Buffalo wings and loaded nachos, they found themselves unexpectedly admonished. On their TV screens, in a black-and-white close-up, was ...

Tom Colicchio climbed the gray staircase from the basement kitchen and made his way toward New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s table. Colicchio is compact and lean, and he moves with purpose. You ...

A layer of frost clings to the grass on the morning Anthony DeNicola sets out to check his trap. It’s late January in South Carolina. The sun is rising, the fog is lifting, and the frogs are croaking ...

A landmark class action settlement agreement between Amazon and a group of residents in Eastern Oregon today marks the first time a Big Tech company has committed to paying damages related to public ...

Nathan Hill pushes his skiff off from the shore as the Alaskan dawn breaks through a dense bank of clouds. It’s high tide at the mouth of the Naknek River, in the northeast arm of Bristol Bay, home to ...

Chris Jones, the 65-year-old Democratic nominee for Iowa secretary of agriculture, stands at the edge of a pond on a 72-acre farm in eastern Iowa. “What you see here is how fertile Iowa is,” he says, ...