New Dietary Guidelines — Pluses and Minuses
For the past year, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been issuing sensible and nonsensical dietary advice. Let’s get to the meat of it.
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How Americans Got Hooked on Processed Foods
New additives like preservatives, flavorings and vitamins were infused into them, and they were packaged in novel ways to withstand hard…
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CAFOs—problems and solutions
Most of the meat we eat in the United States isn’t raised on small farms or fenced fields, as it was decades ago. Today it comes from large concentrated animal feeding operations, also known as CAFOs.
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Animal-welfare food labels deciphered
A one-page guide and more in-depth assessment of dozens of label claims (e.g., cage-free, natural, pasture-raised). (Animal Welfare Institute)
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The Food Museum (online only; not affiliated with the National Food Museum)
Amazing, amusing, eclectic collection of videos, photos, and articles
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Real Fruit vs. Fake Fruit Snacks
The Juggling Nutrition Magician Show (4’; FoodPlay Productions).
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Marketing Junk Food to Kids
Anna Lappé advocates protecting kids from junk-food marketers. (6’; Food MythBusters)
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Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum
A creative exhibit-on-a-truck produced by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (Florida farmworkers)
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Agricultural biotechnology overview
An objective overview of a controversial topic, with a special emphasis on government policies (Congressional Research Service, 2021)
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