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Plastic cow in petri dish (Getty Images/CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Lab-grown meat rebrands itself to woo Trump — and RFK Jr

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Person Throwing Pizza In Garbage (Getty Images/Andrey Popov)

The US wants to cut food waste in half. We’re not even close

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Close-up of Keurig K-Mini coffee maker with logo visible, Lafayette, California, January 24, 2023. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Why it’s so hard to create a truly recyclable Keurig coffee pod

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Canvas bags filled with food crops (Getty Images/Shaiith)

Water challenges — made worse by rising temperatures — are threatening the world’s crops

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School girl holding food tray in school cafeteria (Getty Images/XiXinXing)

More schools than ever are serving vegan meals in California. Here’s how they did it

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Varieties of cheese and bread sticks (Getty Images/Westend61)

Vegan cheese won’t save the world — but this brand hopes you’ll buy it anyway

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A group of Holstein cows wait to go back to their barn after milking at Sheepscot Valley Farm, an organic dairy farm in Whitefield. (Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Food is a huge source of methane emissions. Fixing that is no easy feat.

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A delivery worker rides his bike on July 07, 2023 in New York City. Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats sued the City of New York on July 6th in order to block its new minimum pay rules for food delivery workers. (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress/Getty Images)

NYC’s food delivery workers are sweltering in the heat — and demanding more protection

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Combine Harvester and tractor (Getty Images/Avalon_Studio)

Here’s how much cropland could be freed up if Americans ate half as much meat

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Man cutting produce in the kitchen (Getty Images)

How food banks prevented 1.8 million metric tons of carbon emissions last year

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Beyond Meat products are offered for sale at a grocery store on February 29, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Plant-based meat needs government support to scale up, but a culture war stands in the way

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Caesar salad (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

No Parm, no problem: How modern chefs are veganizing the Caesar salad

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Bottom trawler, fishing boat sailing along the North Sea coast silhouetted against orange sunset in front of Nieuwpoort, Flanders, Belgium. (Arterra/Philippe Clément/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The world is farming more seafood than it catches. Is that a good thing?

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Female chef working in restaurant kitchen (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

Heat waves are making restaurant kitchens unsafe. Workers are fighting back

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