This morning the USDA unveiled their new food chart, finally replacing the food pyramid which first debuted — and was trashed pretty much since — in 1992. The new chart also comes with its own new ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When I was a kid in the 1970s and early ’80s, processed food was everywhere. I ...

For me, the most interesting categories are the latter two. They represent what could be called the “value added” by the food-processing industry. The other categories mainly represent whole foods; ...

“The Year in USDA Food Charts” sounds like an Onion article or a Buzzfeed listicle, we know. But this is a real list of charts that the USDA actually designated the best of 2013. For real. For ...

Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. Not surprising stuff — save maybe for the carbon cost of cheese — but well-presented. As usual, you’re dealing with a simple inefficiency. Growing ...

While lower income individuals and children do particularly poorly, thanks to a rigged food system, no one on that chart is exactly winning. And when it comes to the fat of the land, well, we’re ...

Wasting food is a problem all over the world, but are all kinds of foods equally likely to be wasted? The answer is no. Some foods are especially prone to it, while others are likely to be used much ...

Over the past few decades, it has become possible to speak of a “global food system”—shorthand for the trade patterns, shaped by multinational companies, that move raw agriculture commodities and ...