Food


The Best Actor winner elevated the moral worth of animals to a national audience.


Sodexo’s deal with Just is an important milestone for eggless eggs.


At this moment, we cannot confirm or deny that they are “finger-lickin’ good.”


Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe is dead at 104. But now there’s a Baby Nut.


Nineteen-year-old Jamie Ibanez owns five vending machines, but he makes most of his money from his YouTube channel.


A new Gallup poll suggests interest in meat alternatives is broader than you might think


Can plant-based meat keep making the jump from trial to national rollout?


The 1990 law banned documenting animal abuse on factory farms.


The courts keep backing states’ rights to pass animal welfare laws.


Employees and former employees are the best brand ambassadors money can’t buy, but companies aren’t partnering with them.

Meatless meat has gone mainstream.


Marketers have always used beautiful domestic spaces in advertisements. Now even shoes and liquor are supposed to make us feel safe and warm.


LED lights are being sold as “TikTok lights” now. It’s a canny SEO play.


Alcohol causes more deaths than all drug overdoses combined.

In her new book, Franchise, Marcia Chatelain explains how black franchise owners became the backbone of the industry.


Tough competition makes consolidation a really attractive idea.


The next big challenge for the plant-based meat industry is scale.


The plant-based Impossible Pork is here to replace the most eaten meat in the world.


Buying from Amazon is still a crap shoot.


Some drinks can derail your diet — but you’d never know it from the label.


New SNAP requirements will harm hundreds of thousands, including social services workers who depend on food stamps, too.


They’ve been linked to disease and overeating. Could our microbiome explain why?

The extreme diet phenomenon may offer clues on how nutrition can treat disease.

Tips from cooks and eaters in the coldest parts of the world.


Record flooding, a delayed harvest, and a trade war with China are hammering US agriculture this year.

What does it really take to eat noodles for a living?


All seven candidates who qualified for the debate said they wouldn’t cross a picket line.


If you say these Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker spoilers out loud, Burger King will give you a free Whopper.


What the advice to replace beef with chicken in your diet is missing.


There’s a scientific reason behind your “second stomach.”


It’s possible to find unity in the age of dietary division.


It’s really not worth feeling guilty about a little over-indulgence during the holidays.


A local law has meant cancer warnings adorn everything from bikinis and faux leather jackets to certain foods and, for a while, coffee.


More restaurants are adding meatless “meat” offerings.

The writer and farmer’s impassioned arguments on farming, technology, and the urban-rural divide have taken on a new urgency.


The growing pushback against Impossible and Beyond burgers in fast-food chains, explained


Don’t be surprised that scientists keep updating their advice.


How researchers came to a controversial conclusion about the health effects of meat.


The fast-food chain is the latest to try out meatless meat offerings.

If we’re ever going to eat less meat, faux burgers could be an important first step. So why are they a cultural flashpoint?