Latest articles by Nathanael Johnson


Even before the election, food luminaries had started brawling over Obama’s legacy.


A look at whether it’s possible to fight poverty without wrecking the planet.


Because most of us aren’t farmers, we have a hard time seeing the GMO age at all.

This is a perfect demonstration of the way humans grapple with risk.

If there’s any hope of preventing California from shriveling into a parched wasteland, the state will have to figure out some simple things first.


The most powerful ways in which meat has us hooked are not biological but social.


Fishermen sold more than 100,000 pounds of the species last year.


Landscapers often apply chemicals to lawns at more than double the concentrations used in industrial agriculture.


More than 100,000 children around the world die every year from a lack of vitamin A.


The move comes ahead of a Vermont law mandating GMO labels in that state.