Kroger Co. Wasted food is digested here. One California food company has a novel plan for dealing with food waste and cutting down the power bill: Feed it to bacteria. The Kroger Co. plans to chuck all food gone past its sell-by date... 

Matt Erasmus While most of Washington, D.C., is consumed with the faux scandals du jour , in a few corners of Congress, actual work is getting done. A day 329 days late and a dollar $20 billion short, perhaps, the farm bill, an every-five-years... 

Robynne Blume Do you feel like your doctors and your more annoying friends are always telling you to drink more water? Well, they’re just trying to help. Water is so important for your health! Sadly, water tastes like, well,... 

Shutterstock Go crazy, dude. Salt’s membership in junk food’s holy trinity (along with sugar and fat) means it’s one of the food industry’s essential tools for making its products addictively good. (Journalist Michael Moss... 

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Occupy the Farm On Monday, this tractor plowed over the unauthorized farm. A guerrilla veggie-growing occupation of university-owned land in Albany, Calif., was busted by cops early Monday and thousands of zucchini, kale, squash,... 

Foodbeast So Dunkin’ Donuts and Jack In the Box both have waffle sandwiches, and lot of fancier places are getting all upscale with the waffle as well. Waffles are kind of the bacon of carbohydrates. And so, it is not terribly... 

ap. We are fans of Northwest Edible Life’s Erica Strauss. Perhaps you remember her rant about healthy eating. It is the best ever . And now she has something to tell you about backyard chickens: You absolutely should not get... 

Shutterstock / Jonathan Feinstein Members of the Vermont House think shoppers should be told which of these products contain GMOs. A historic but cautious attempt to force food manufacturers to label products containing genetically... 

Shutterstock In a blow to opponents of GMOs and Monsanto, the Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that an Indiana soybean farmer violated the company’s patent by saving its trademark Roundup Ready seeds. Every time a farmer buys... 

Jeremy Brooks Yes, sure, fine, it is possible to get a somewhat healthy sandwich at Subway. It will have watery, shredded lettuce on it, and peppers, and maybe avocado. It will taste like nothing. And let’s be real: That is... 

Shutterstock Strawberries: not worth choking over. Workers on a strawberry farm in Southern California were fired last week when they became worried about smoke from a nearby wildfire and left mid-shift. After a media backlash, the... 

Dave Goulson. Bumblebee biologist Dave Goulson might be the pesticide industry’s worst enemy — and therefore a bee’s best friend. A professor at Scotland’s University of Stirling, he was part of the team whose... 

igor.stevanovic Thirty years ago, scientists figured out how to directly modify the genes in our food crops. No more of that inefficient and slow breeding! Farmers would grab plant genes by the horns nucleotides and bend them to their... 

Sure, you can make your prom dress out of soda can pull tabs , but will they help you open any soda cans? They will not. And maybe you could hang bread bags off your bread bag tie wedding dress, but it doesn’t even look like... 

Rachel Signer Here’s the best way to start a visit to New York City’s New Amsterdam Market: a small nibble of a hearty Finnish Ruis bread round, made with rye from Upstate New York and topped with a slice of locally made... 

In 2004, the tsunami that hit Sri Lanka killed eight members of this small fishing family. And yet today, they still fish (either on stilts or in a boat) because they have to do it to survive. The family lives in a small, makeshift... 

The Windy City is about to roll out a new local food label designed to support the city’s burgeoning urban farming movement. “Chicago Grown” will soon appear on signs around the city and on stickers on fruit, veggies,... 

Shutterstock OK, meat eaters, do you want the good news or the bad news first? Hey, I know! I’ll start with the bad news: In a just-released study , Consumer Reports tested 257 samples of ground turkey from supermarkets, and found... 

Nestled along a residential stretch of Seagirt Boulevard in Far Rockaway, the  Seagirt Boulevard Community Garden  has been a green fixture in this Queens neighborhood for over two decades. A photograph of the space from 2009 reveals...