Opinion: A More Resilient Food System Starts at the Community Level
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Food
Can Technology Make Colorado’s Peaches Even Juicier?
A new, nondestructive sensor aims to help growers with quality control, harvesting and shipping these time-sensitive fruits.
In U.S. Prisons, Seeds Are Prized Contraband for Prisoners Looking to Grow Their Own Food
With food inside prisons often dreary and repetitive, some incarcerated people are taking their diets into their own hands.
Plants Have Mouths–And They Could Help Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change
A rare case where being a voluntary mouth breather is superior.
From Backyards to Roadsides, How One Group is Protecting the Endangered Juçara Palm
Why chefs and agriculturalists in Brazil are working together to save this lesser-known superfruit.
Is There Such Thing as Good Meat?
In her new book, journalist Chloe Sorvino exposes the monopolies, environmental destruction and human cost woven into the meat industry today and asks: Is there a better way?
Where Has All the Mustard Gone?
Environmental instability, global politics and increased costs are contributing to mustard’s disappearance from store shelves.
To Stop New Viruses Infecting Humans, We Must Protect Bat Habitat
When bat habitats are destroyed, the animals find new places to roost, putting them into closer contact with humans and livestock.
The Great (Sticker Shock) Thanksgiving
This year, birds are smaller, more expensive and in short supply.
Egg Whites Could be the Key to Cleaning Our Oceans
A new study found that the breakfast staple can effectively filter microplastics from water.
