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- Rural Kansas is dying. I drove 1,800 miles to find out why (2018) https://thecounter.org/rural-kansas-depopulation-commodity-agriculture/ 3 comments
- New evidence suggests that Seattle’s soda tax is working well https://thecounter.org/seattle-washington-soda-tax-working-grocery-shopping-data-portland/ 120 comments
- The Four Corners potato https://thecounter.org/four-corners-potato-species-indigenous-crop-navajo-nation-usda-southwest-future/ 4 comments
- Climate change is a big problem for farmers in Hawaii https://thecounter.org/climate-change-big-problem-farmers-hawaii/ 8 comments
- Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/ 971 comments
- Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn https://thecounter.org/mexico-phaseout-glyphosate-genetically-engineered-corn-united-states/ 184 comments
- The largest meat processor has been hit with a cyberattack https://thecounter.org/largest-us-meat-processor-jbs-cyberattack-food-supply-chain/ 5 comments
- How corporations buy and food made with prison labor https://thecounter.org/how-corporations-buy-and-sell-food-made-with-prison-labor/ 283 comments
- Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen https://thecounter.org/public-health-groups-alcohol-label-warnings-carcinogen-cancer-link-awareness-prop-65/ 180 comments
- Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story. https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/ 420 comments environment
- Seaweed farming has vast potential—but good luck getting a permit https://thecounter.org/seaweed-farming-vast-potential-permit-process-aquaculture-washington/ 3 comments environment
- What could be done in Central California as land is fallowed: around 15% of irrigated farmland to be taken out of production to meet Sustainable Groundwater Management Act https://thecounter.org/vision-more-sustainable-farmlands-california-agriculture-central-valley/ 4 comments environment
- After years of inconclusive data, new evidence suggests that Seattle’s soda tax is working—and it’s working really well https://thecounter.org/seattle-washington-soda-tax-working-grocery-shopping-data-portland/ 610 comments upliftingnews
- After years of inconclusive data, new evidence suggests that Seattle’s soda tax is working—and it’s working really well https://thecounter.org/seattle-washington-soda-tax-working-grocery-shopping-data-portland/ 388 comments economics
- After years of inconclusive data, new evidence suggests that Seattle’s soda tax is working—and it’s working really well https://thecounter.org/seattle-washington-soda-tax-working-grocery-shopping-data-portland/ 18 comments environment
- After years of inconclusive data, new evidence suggests that Seattle’s soda tax is working—and it’s working really well https://thecounter.org/seattle-washington-soda-tax-working-grocery-shopping-data-portland/ 6 comments economy
- Professional Ham Sniffers In Spain Are Strained "To The Limit Of Human Possibility", Have To Sniff 800 Hams Per Day This Christmas Season https://thecounter.org/strained-at-the-limit-of-human-possibility-during-the-christmas-season-veteran-ham-sniffer-manuel-vega-dominguez-whiffs-800-ham-loins-a-day/ 176 comments nottheonion
- This year, hundreds of household wells went dry in Oregon. In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) began paying farmers to pump large amounts of groundwater out of the aquifers below. Such programs have been activated since then, even when their own scientists warned that it could be damaging. https://thecounter.org/federal-drought-relief-southern-oregon-groundwater-crisis-farmers-klamath-project/ 19 comments environment
- Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story. https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/ 102 comments truereddit
- Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story. https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/ 3 comments economy
- Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story. https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/ 2 comments indepthstories
- Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story. - Splashy headlines have long overshadowed inconvenient truths about biology and economics. Now, extensive new research suggests the industry may be on a billion-dollar crash course with reality. https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/ 392 comments futurology
- Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story. https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/ 21 comments technology
- Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn https://thecounter.org/mexico-phaseout-glyphosate-genetically-engineered-corn-united-states/ 8 comments environment
- Months after the Piney Point wastewater disaster, a massive red tide has killed 1,600-plus tons of marine life—a huge blow to the local fishing community https://thecounter.org/piney-point-wastewater-disaster-red-tide-dead-florida-marine-life-fishermen-shrimpers/ 3 comments environment
- Bayer will stop selling Roundup for residential use in 2023, an effort to prevent future cancer lawsuits https://thecounter.org/bayer-glyphosate-products-roundup-residential-2023-cancer/ 100 comments worldnews
- Mexico's phaseout of glyphosate and GMO corn imports may help to reverse years of U.S. trade policy: Nearly all of the 16 million tons of corn Mexico imports each year is used for livestock and industrial purposes https://thecounter.org/mexico-phaseout-glyphosate-genetically-engineered-corn-united-states/ 40 comments economy
- Restaurant workers across North Carolina say there’s no labor shortage. It’s a ‘wage shortage.’ https://thecounter.org/restaurant-workers-north-carolina-wage-shortage-labor-unions-mcdonalds/ 363 comments economy
- Junk food ads don’t just harm children’s health—they also infringe on their online privacy https://thecounter.org/junk-food-ads-harm-childrens-health-online-privacy-social-media-coca-cola/ 25 comments privacy
- Unemployed workers defect and debate their next moves, leaving restaurant owners to contend with a labor shortage https://thecounter.org/restaurant-owners-labor-shortage-unemployed-workers-covid-19/ 13 comments economy
- Unemployed workers defect and debate their next moves, leaving restaurant owners to contend with a labor shortage https://thecounter.org/restaurant-owners-labor-shortage-unemployed-workers-covid-19/ 5 comments indepthstories
- I make gluten-free snacks. It took a Black man dying for people to try my crackers. https://thecounter.org/george-floyd-gluten-free-snacks-cracker-king-whole-foods/ 9 comments nottheonion
- Grounded travelers are ordering airline food to cope with pandemic https://thecounter.org/covid-19-grounded-travelers-ordering-airline-food-coping/ 3 comments nottheonion
- Eaters of the earth: the terrifying, overlooked story of American phosphate mining https://thecounter.org/earth-day-mosaic-phosphate-fertilizer-louisiana-mississippi/ 9 comments indepthstories
- Why aren’t distilleries making more hand sanitizer? Because the FDA forces them to make their alcohol undrinkable first. https://thecounter.org/covid-19-coronavirus-hand-sanitizer-distillers-fda-denatured-alcohol/ 157 comments truereddit
- The American restaurant is on life support https://thecounter.org/why-restaurants-are-closing-nyc-los-angeles/ 54 comments economy