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You may have heard America’s honeybees are dying. But what does that mean for the people on the front lines—and what could it mean for what ends up on your plate?

Warmer winters, late freezes and wildly variable rainfall have formed a perfect storm to wreck the one of the region’s favorite fruits

In any socialist future worth living in, an abundance of diverse foods would replace the tyranny of monoculture.

Alicia Kennedy’s debut book tackles punk restaurants, underground vegan zines, and Silicon Valley.

Florida would have students believe that enslaved Black people “benefited” by developing skills during slavery; the reality is that enslaved Africans contributed to the nation’s social, cultural and economic well-being using skills they had already.

Marketing departments inject Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) with stories ranging from the banal (a cereal box cartoon character) and aspirational (health promises), to the manipulative such as ads picturing fast food eating as the center of family life

Harvard experts say most recommendations are well-supported, but guidance on total fat intake omits decades of evidence

Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.

The U-pick business model, which relies on farm visitors to do the harvesting, has the potential to produce big profits. But its success depends on an array of uncontrollable variables.

Rising temperatures, lack of water and encroaching development are creating tough conditions for the crucial California crop. Their continued viability could all depend on strengthening the lands on which they sit.