food
Feature
The Pandemic Is Exposing the Rotten Core of Our Industrial Food System
While industrial farms have been thrown into chaos, local agriculture has proved to be a more resilient model.
Joseph Bullington
Viewpoint
The Covid-19 Crisis Shows Why Food Should Be a Human Right
With lines at food banks stretching for miles, the need has never been clearer to guarantee food to all U.S. residents.
Paul J. Baicich
Feature
How Walmart Threatens Organic Food
The store's Wild Oats brand won't sow sustainability.
Arun Gupta
Culture
Artisanal Union-Busting
Whole Foods has attempted to crush anything resembling a union drive among its employees.
Chris Lehmann
Cupcake Feminism
Lindsay Beyerstein
Comics
Lunch at Limbaugh’s
Jeff Danziger
Feature
Bingeing on Food Porn
How foodie magazines aid and abet Big Food.
Susan J. Douglas
Feature
Milwaukee’s Best Farmer
Growing Power's Will Allen is the next big thing in farming.
Dan Schneider
Feature
The Woman Who’s Changing the Definition of ‘Foodie’
ROC’s Saru Jayaraman is doing for ethical eating what Michael Pollan did for slow food.
Michelle Chen
Feature
Frankenfoods, Reveal Yourselves!
If passed, California's Prop 37 will require companies to label foods made with GMOs.
Joseph Misulonas
Dispatch
Slow Food vs. the City of Chicago
Behind the culinary times, Windy City bureaucrats crack down on canning and charcuteries.
Robin Peterson
Culture
Our Coffee, Ourselves
The rise of Starbucks reveals how we really live, and it ain't pretty.
Richard Greenwald
Dispatch
Fast Food, Slow Justice
Workers protest Yum! Brands firings.
Robin Peterson
Feature
Cafeteria Kickbacks
How food-service providers like Sodexo bilk millions from taxpayers.
Lucy Komisar
Feature
Let Them Eat Free Markets
How deregulation fuels the global food crisis
David Moberg
Culture
Food Fights
Jeremy Gantz