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Chris Darwin Would Really Love It If You’d Eat Less Meat: An Exclusive Interview With Charles Darwin’s Great-Great-Grandson

Chris Darwin Would Really Love It If You’d Eat Less Meat: An Exclusive Interview With Charles Darwin’s Great-Great-Grandson

By Matthew Ponsford Conservationist Chris Darwin says we’re living in a car crash moment of natural catastrophes—with climate disasters meeting mass extinctions and human hunger on an unimaginable scale. But Darwin—the great-great-grandson of naturalist Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution changed human history—brims with optimism that humanity “can turn our society around on a dime.” […]

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    Do Red and Yellow Food Dyes Disrupt Children’s Behavior?

    Do Red and Yellow Food Dyes Disrupt Children’s Behavior?

    By Annie B. Bond Birthday cakes with all the colors of the rainbow were the touchpoint that would change our friendly and gentle daughter into a belligerent crank puss for a few hours after eating her slice. We always braced for the aftermath of the birthday parties. Given that we didn’t serve meals with FD&C […]

    New Online Calculator Lets You See the Impact of Your Meat Intake

    New Online Calculator Lets You See the Impact of Your Meat Intake

    By Robin Scher One of my resolutions this year is to eat less meat. As a lifelong carnivore, this task has already proven to be easier said than done. The major challenge comes down to changing my habits. After years of enjoying bacon with my eggs for breakfast, I now associate its comforting greasy taste […]

    6 Ways Trump Is Bad for Food, Health and the Environment

    6 Ways Trump Is Bad for Food, Health and the Environment

    By George Kimbrell One year down, three to go. Trump and his enablers are hell bent on destroying or selling to the highest bidder the federal agencies they are charged with running in the public interest. In the past year, they have been unrelenting in their attacks on food safety, environmental protections, climate change, government […]

    9 Dishes Chefs Eat When They’re Sick

    9 Dishes Chefs Eat When They’re Sick

    By Melissa Kravitz When your nose won’t stop leaking, you can barely hear Netflix over your incessant coughing and a trip outside the house seems like a death sentence, there’s only one way to cure the plague: Food. A plethora of ingredients are proven to help you feel better—perhaps better than any over-the-counter cold reliever—and […]

    Don’t Be Fooled by These 5 Misleading Dairy Ads

    Don’t Be Fooled by These 5 Misleading Dairy Ads

    By Rachel Krantz For most of my life, I genuinely believed the false advertising used to sell dairy. When I learned the truth—that nearly all cows used for dairy are kept inside, locked up, forcibly inseminated, and hooked up to painful milking machines—I was heartbroken. How had I never put two and two together: that […]

    Here’s What Happened When I Tried to Rescue Piglets From a Factory Farm

    Here’s What Happened When I Tried to Rescue Piglets From a Factory Farm

    By Jenny McQueen For a city girl, I’ve had a lot of experience with pigs. I’ve visited with them in sanctuaries, given belly rubs (they love those), introduced little children to them, rescued and cared for young piglets, witnessed distressed, overheated/freezing/thirsty young pigs in slaughter trucks, and experienced the hellish conditions inside a pig breeding […]

    Top 10 Climate Deniers in the Trump Administration

    Top 10 Climate Deniers in the Trump Administration

    By Mary Mazzoni More than 97 percent of climate scientists agree the planet is warming and that human activity is largely responsible. For perspective, that’s as conclusive as the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. This scientific consensus is accepted by people and their governments in virtually every corner of the world, with one […]