Category: food

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Kettle Chips’ Cancer Conundrum

Frito-Lay and two other potato chip companies have agreed to reduce the levels of a cancer-causing chemical in their products … Acrylamide is produced when potatoes and other starchy foods are cooked at high...

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Peak Corn

In 1974-2005 food prices on world markets fell by three-quarters in real terms … Since the spring, wheat prices have doubled and almost every crop under the sun—maize, milk, oilseeds, you name it—is at...

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Let Them Eat Pelagibacter

We are running out of fish to eat, so apparently we will have to begin harvesting other oceanic biomass sources. I suggest going right to the source and figuring out how to turn Pelagibacter...