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Study found prices are skyrocketing across the board. From 2020 to 2025, the inflation rate in the United States rose by 22%; however the average price increase at 16 popular chain restaurants was nearly twice as high, at 42%.

Thomas Gremillion, Consumer Federation of America, criticized the Administration's reckless disregard for its policies' effects on the detection and prevention of foodborne illness and said plans to replace federal food inspectors merit suspicion

Food, especially seemingly modest ingredients, is a way to signify wealth and luxury tastes. Fashion and design are an extension of that. Wearing food as a design choice signals both that we have a palate for that product and that we can afford it.

ICE is picking people up on warrants for detention across the country. ICE Director Tom Homan calls all undocumented immigrants criminals and therefore credible targets for deportation, no matter how many years they have lived in the country.

Researchers from Minnesota State University Mankato showed that ‘storytelling’ combined with marketing tactics like coupons “significantly increases consumers’ consumption of unattractive produce”.

Wild shrimp is advertised on menus, but what is served is often the farm-raised, imported kind that makes up more than 90 percent of the shrimp consumed in the U.S.

Whether it supports the production of wine or cheese, terroir is a “particularly French conception of cultural territory” says historian Tamara L. Whited.

In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our comestibles.

In her book, “Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood,” Anne Mendelson explores the prehistoric origins of nonhuman milk in our diet.

There may be “some pain” Trump admitted of his tariff schemes; “But we will Make America Great Again, and it will all be worth the price that must be paid.”