August 2014 - Page 5 of 8 - Modern Farmer
Phonies, Fakes and Food Fraud

How do you know that what you’re eating is what you think it is? Most... (more)

Modern Farmer
October 8, 2023
Opinion: It’s Time to Stop Underestimating the Scope of Food Fraud

Food fraud has been happening since humans first began to buy and sell food, thousands... (more)

Karen Constable
October 8, 2023
In the Shopping Cart

Food fraud is the act of misrepresenting or adulterating a food product, usually for financial... (more)

Lena Beck
October 8, 2023
Who Can Afford Free Food? The Limits of Freeganism

Obscene quantities of recently baked croissants, cases of non-expired milk and pallets of still-fresh produce... (more)

Samantha Maxwell
October 5, 2023
Navigating the Buzzwords Behind an ‘Ethical’ Bag of Coffee

You’re shopping for a bag of coffee beans at the grocery store. After reading about... (more)

Spencer M. Ross, The Conversation
September 30, 2023
Digging In: Why Don’t Americans Eat Mutton?

“Why can we only get lamb in the US, as opposed to mutton?” That’s what... (more)

Rose Garrett
September 21, 2023
New Treatments for Citrus Greening Have Passed Initial Testing

Citrus greening, a disease with no cure, has torn through citrus groves in Florida, Louisiana,... (more)

Emily Baron Cadloff
September 14, 2023
Farm-to-Table Doesn’t Always Mean Farm-to-Glass

When Charlie Marshall opened his New York City restaurant, The Marshal, in 2013, he was... (more)

Kathleen Willcox
September 13, 2023
The Goldilocks Zone Needed to Keep Strawberry Fields Forever

According to the University of Florida, the perfect temperatures for growing strawberries—the Goldilocks zone—is between... (more)

Jennifer Cole
September 4, 2023
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