By Annie Gasparro Soup, Spam and Shake Shack SHAK -2.85% burgers are all getting more expensive as food companies pass along higher costs to consumers. General Mills Inc., GIS -1.29% Campbell Soup Co. CPB -0.22% ,Unilever UL -1.83% PLC, and J.M. Smucker Co. SJM -1.95% are among food makers raising prices at supermarkets. Restaurants including […]
By Fabienne Lang You jolt upright in the middle of the night, sweating, nauseous, and with a cramping stomach forcing you into a fetal position. You muster the strength to drag yourself to the bathroom for the inevitable hours of misery ahead of you. You guessed it: You have food poisoning. Unfortunately, almost any food, […]
By Breanna T Bradham Climate change has been holding back food production for decades, with a new study showing that about 21% of growth for agricultural output was lost since the 1960s. That’s equal to losing the last seven years of productivity growth, according to research led by Cornell University and published in the journal […]
By Govind Bhutada ▼ Use This Visualization Cocoa Cocoa From bean to bar, the cocoa supply chain is a bittersweet one. While the end product is something most of us enjoy, this also comes with a human cost. Based on how much cocoa comes from West Africa, it’s likely that most of the […]
BY Adele Peters Around half of the habitable land onthe planet is now used for agriculture. A millennium ago—or more recently, in the case of many countries—it was mostly wilderness. Soon, technology could reshape that balance again, bringing back acres of trees as tools to fight climate change. A new project from the global design […]
Story by Gabriel Popkin Jan. 22, 2021 Maryland farmer Trey Hill pulled in a healthy haul of corn last fall and then immediately planted rye, turnips, clover and other species, which are now spreading a lush green carpet over the soil. While his grandfather, who started the family farm along the Chesapeake Bay, always planted […]
By Cody Copeland for GRUNGE In the mid-1800s, a new beverage fad took over the United States and Europe. Coca wine was fortified wine infused with coca leaves, i.e., cocaine. According to The Drinks Business, the stimulating wine drink initially had the approval of everyone from U.S. presidents to Catholic popes. One such wine was […]
Contributors: Kate Krader Updated on January 13, 8:48 AM EST What You Need To Know As Covid-19 wreaks continued havoc across the globe, restaurants are still among the hardest hit industries. It’s been estimated that 2.2 million restaurants worldwide won’t re-open at all. Theproblem remains especially acute in U.S., where $899 billion in sales projected […]
BY ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARTIN OEGGERLI This story appears in the January 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. THE MORE SCIENTISTS investigate the microbes living inside us, the more they learn about the surprising impact of these tiny organisms on how we look, act, think, and feel. Are our health and well-being really […]
As a child, Suzanne Simard often roamed Canada’s old-growth forests with her siblings, building forts from fallen branches, foraging mushrooms and huckleberries and occasionally eating handfuls of dirt (she liked the taste). Her grandfather and uncles, meanwhile, worked nearby as horse loggers, using low-impact methods to selectively harvest cedar, Douglas fir and white pine. They […]