Republicans in Congress Are So Eager to Slash Food Stamps, They’re About to Make a Big Mistake
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The ultraconservative wing of the US House Republicans regards federal anti-hunger initiatives like a typical first-grader reacts to spinach: with loathing and disgust. But their latest effort to slash the biggest one of all, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), once known as food stamps, might…
The Science About Eating Out That Will Scare You Into Cooking Your Own Dinners
Imgorthand/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Americans are increasingly putting their money where their mouth is—and eating out more than ever before. Back in 1970, Americans only spent 26 percent of all their food expenses at restaurants or cafeterias. In 2014, that number rose to 44 percent. Today, about half…
American Farmers Are Collateral Damage in Trump’s Trade War
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For a jet-setting Manhattanite, Donald Trump polled extremely well in 2016 among large-scale US farmers. But now the president’s heartland support will be tested by his increasingly aggressive trade stance with China, which buys about $25 billion in US-grown agricultural goods every year. Early Friday morning, news broke…
Has #MeToo Changed Your Relationship With Restaurants?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mother Jones is exploring how #MeToo is affecting the culinary world for an upcoming episode of Bite, our food politics podcast—and we want to hear from you. In the past few months, accusations of sexual misconduct have emerged at major restaurants across the country, leaving customers…
Don’t Call It Pot: My Dinner With San Francisco’s Cannabis Gourmets
Chron Vivant Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. San Francisco’s first ever Thursday Infused, a “gourmet series for the canna-curious,” begins at 6:30pm one evening in March. I’m greeted at the door of a handsome purple Victorian house by Jamie Evans, a willowy blonde in a yellow silk dress who organizes…
Large-Scale Animal Agriculture Is Threatening Rural Communities. Congress Is About to Make it Worse.
dhughes9/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Residents of tiny Lone Jack, MO, are fighting a proposal by a local ranch to expand its feedlot from around 600 cows to nearly 7,000. It is the latest in a series of communities pushing back against a national trend toward concentrated animal agriculture.…