The study of cultural food knowledge is an important field of study that involves skills, attitudes, and traditions related to the production, processing, preparation, and consumption of food. As food has become easier to access with recent globalization trends and technological advancements, this knowledge has been disappearing. …

As schools shuttered at the beginning of COVID-19 organizations around the United States prepared themselves for what they imagined would be some of the most requested items to hopefully keep things running smoothly at home. Computers, internet access, paper, markers, and so on dominated many of these lists. …

As COVID-19 swept across the globe, hospitals were pushed to their breaking points, unemployment rose, uncertainty gripped millions, and food insecurity in the United States climbed to its highest rate since the Great Depression. Where were the safety nets to prevent millions from going hungry? Where were the widespread programs…

In December 2020, Singaporean restaurant 1880 grabbed worldwide headlines by serving up the first commercially available cultured meat. This was also the first time a country approved the sales of lab-grown meat, which many hoped would signify a shift in the way we ‘raise’ and consume animal-based food products. The…

It’s become a well-known fact that billionaire Warren Buffett starts off each morning at the McDonald’s drive-through. His choice of breakfast? Bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit if stocks are up and two sausage patties if they are down. Buffett isn’t alone, roughly 36% of Americans eat fast food every day…

“No one is here by choice” was the unshakable feeling that rattled around my head and uncomfortably settled into my body over the years while working undercover as a factory farm investigator. For fourteen to sixteen hours a day six days a week we were surrounded by death. It’s the…