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Advocates make argument for extending food stamps to pets
Edward Johnston Jr. would rather give his dinner to his dog than watch the dog go hungry. That is why the 59-year-old Mississippi man is petitioning the Department of Agriculture...
Why 7-Eleven, inventor of the Slurpee, is now all about cold-pressed organic juice
Like thousands of U.S. convenience stores, many 7-Eleven stores cram rows of snacks between a wall of chilled sodas and a bank of churning Slurpee machines.
The dark side of your $5 Footlong: Business owners say it could bankrupt them
A Subway sandwich is far more than the sum of its fillings, franchisee Keith Miller says.
How to fix the American diet, according to the man who coined the term “junk food”
Jacobson sat down with The Washington Post to talk diet, nutrition and what comes next for food policy in the United States.
A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm
Liz Whitehurst dabbled in several careers before she ended up here, crating fistfuls of fresh-cut arugula in the early-November chill.
Why Americans have stopped eating leftovers
American consumers throw away 27 million tons of food each year, according to the food waste coalition ReFED, clogging landfills, generating greenhouse gasses, and costing the economy an estimated $144...
Bad booze news: Global wine production just hit a 56-year low
Global wine production plummeted to an almost six-decade low this year - and that isn't even the worst news. Thanks to the ravages of climate change, experts say that these...
Why McDonald’s is beating out the “fresh,” “healthy” competition
Three years after analysts predicted that Chipotle would be the death of McDonald's and other fast-food stalwarts, the onetime fast-casual darling is in free fall - and McDonald's is reporting...
Climate change could spell disaster for coffee, but science may offer a solution.
Centroamericano, a new variety of coffee plant, hasn't sparked the buzz of, say, Starbucks's latest novelty latte. But it may be the coolest thing in brewing: a tree that can...
The obscure Supreme Court case that decided tomatoes are vegetables
It's a question used to trick schoolkids the nation over: Is the tomato actually a fruit or vegetable?