A Little Bit of Lime Won’t Make This New Water-Sucking Corona Factory Go Down Any Easier
Adam McCauley Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Best enjoyed ice cold, the beers of Mexico are red-hot in the United States. Between 2013 and 2017, sales of brews from south of the border surged 44 percent, even as domestic beer sales dipped 3.5 percent. A single company benefits most from…
Was Your UTI Triggered By Raw Chicken?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When you think about food poisoning, your mind probably turns to stomach aches and other digestive troubles. But there’s mounting evidence that bacterial pathogens, particularly some strains of E. coli commonly carried on poultry, can also cause a common ailment we don’t normally associate with…
The Winners and Losers of Trump’s Tariff Bailout
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. About a month ago, the Trump administration announced its plans to spend up to $12 billion to help offset losses incurred by farmers as the president pursues a trade war against China and other major buyers of US agriculture goods. In a press call Monday,…
Along with Monsanto, Chemical Giant Bayer Inherits Its Pests
Outside of Bayer’s annual shareholder May 2018 meeting in Bonn, activists protested the German company’s acquisition of Monsanto. AP Photo/Martin Meissner Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Seed and pesticide titan Monsanto continues its slow shuffle off the global stage and into the maw of Bayer, its new parent company. This week,…
Farmworkers Are Dying from Extreme Heat
Ed Reinke/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On June 16, Miguel Angel Guzman Chavez arrived in Georgia from Mexico. He was 24 years old and went right to work picking tomatoes. The Georgia heat was consistently more than 90 degrees, and on June 21, the temperature soared to 95 degrees. That day, Chavez collapsed…
What It’s Like to Eat Dinner at Home With David Sedaris, Lorrie Moore, and Terry Tempest Williams
MichellePatrickPhotographyLLC/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Deep into his middle age, after his marriage dissolved and his grown kids moved out, author Rick Bass was feeling restless. He decided to embark on a new project: He would tour the country and make dinner for the literary giants who inspired him…