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Zero-Calorie Sweeteners Make You Fat

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food - NYTimes.com

Industry-funded soda studies overwhelmingly downplay health risks.

The Case Against Sugar, by Gary Taubes, review by the Atlantic

Low-calorie sweetener use is independently associated with heavier relative weight, larger waist, and higher incidence of abdominal obesity.

Studies funded by artificial sweetener companies were 17 times more likely to find that artificial sweeteners have beneficial effects.

FDA Phasing Out Antibiotics For Farm Animals

The Dark Side of Almond Use

An Organic Chicken Farm in Georgia has Become an Endless Bald Eagle Buffet

The sugar industry began funding research that cast doubt on sugar’s role in heart disease (by pointing the finger at fat) in the 1960s.

Vegetables modified with CRISPR-Cas9 have been cultivated, harvested and cooked for the first time.

100 years ago, people were eating things that most of us will never taste. So what happened?

FDA Finishes Food Labels for How We Eat Now

Ritual reinvents vitamins with sustained release beaded oil capsules to go after the $80 billion industry. US consumes 1.5b vitamins daily.

Jessica Alba on The Honest Company dealing with lawsuits: Be as transparent with customers as possible.

As Americans eat less chocolate, Hershey’s begins pushing meat bars.

CRISPR Is Going To Revolutionize Our Food System... And Save Bananas

Preventing Food Labeling with Money and Lies

Elon Musk's brother Kimbal is saving the world too. One organic garden at a time.

Is soy bad for you?

Brazil's Forests Are Being Cleared to Plant Soy

California Could Be the Next Saudi Arabia

90% of the United States on January 2: Hella Cravings, another Adele Hello parody

Supernormal Stimuli and Our Lizard Brains: Are Humans Truly Ready for Junk Food, TV, Video Games, Porn, or the Internet?

How The Food Industry Helps Engineer Our Cravings, by NPR

How Not to Die of Botulism

Restaurant report card grades on antibiotics in meat supply

How One Farm Saved Essex, New York

Behold the 30-plus ingredients that make up Doritos Cool Ranch tortilla chips.

When Big Ag Gobbles Up Small Ag Is There Any Hope for Real Reform?

Perdue Farms to buy Chipotle pork supplier Niman Ranch

Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste

America has given up on cooking.

The billion dollar battle for your plate

In America, Healthy Eating Is for the Privileged

61% of U.S. Calories Are From Highly Processed Food

Of the 600,000 food items in the American grocery store, 80% have been spiked with added sugar; the industry uses 56 other names for sugar.

People are fed by the Food Industry, which pays no attention to health. ~Wendell Berry

How The Food Industry Manipulates Taste Buds With 'Salt Sugar Fat'

Can Patagonia’s New Food Line Revolutionize the Salmon Industry?

Inside the food industry: the surprising truth about what you eat

How to feed the cities of the future | The Verge

All supermarkets should do this: Inglorious ugly fruits and vegetables!

Will food recovery help the food industry?

He Holds The Patent That Could DESTROY Monsanto And Change The World!

USDA Forces Whole Foods To Accept Monsanto

Brazilian farmers win $2 billion judgment against Monsanto

'Nobel of Agriculture' goes to Monsanto executive for achievements in founding, developing and applying modern agricultural biotech

Monsanto Buys Climate Corporation for $930 Million, Bringing Big Data to the Farm - Businessweek

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