The hard, and nauseating, truth about cyclospora is that it’s spread through human feces. Over decades of research, ...

In recent years, our food system has been placed under increasing scrutiny. From foodborne illness outbreaks to growing concerns about the impact of industrial farming on the environment, it’s clear ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. When veteran journalist Michael Grunwald set out to write ...

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What’s in our food? Believe it or not, we still don’t know. We don’t have reliable indexes of the biomolecules in an overwhelming majority of what we eat, a team of global scientists say—which is ...

America is a country that loves dieting. Nearly half of Americans have tried to lose weight in the past year, a CDC study found, while other data suggests as many as 80 percent of Americans have tried ...

Researchers have mapped how microbes underpin our food systems—and how we can stop their decline. Published in Frontiers in Science, their map of "agri-food system microbiomes" reveals how players at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Danielle Nierenberg is a researcher and writer on global food systems. The hard-working folks who power our food and agriculture ...

We’ve got enough calories to go around, but somehow, we’re still managing to feed people into chronic disease. When food policy treats a vending machine dinner and a home-cooked meal as equals, maybe ...

What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple ...

Readers disagree with an essay about factory farms. To the Editor: Re “Factory Farms Are Our Best Hope for Feeding the Planet,” by Michael Grunwald (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 15): As executive ...