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This article originally appeared on Undark. Carnivores and cattle ranchers love Frank Mitloehner. As people who produce or eat meat look for ways to defend their effect on the planet, Mitloehner, an air quality scientist at the University of California, Davis, has been there to voice support. Mitloehner's following has come from both social and traditional media. On Twitter, he is prolific, asking, for instance, why anyone would want "ultra-processed 'faux milk'" compared to the real thing, or sharing the claim that vegan diets might affect intelligence. He has also written opinion pieces for...

This story first appeared on Civil Eats. When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Agriculture (USDA), released new Dietary Guidelines for Americans on Dec. 29, 2020, they looked almost identical to the ones released five years earlier. There were new guidelines related to pregnancy, breastfeeding, and children under two, but to those who'd been paying attention to the process, what stood out was what had not changed. Most glaringly, the guidelines failed to take up key recommendations from the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the group of experts ...

Related Before taking office, President Biden committed to assembling a diverse administration that would “look like the country.” Then, hours after the inauguration, he began laying out a plan to go beyond representation, to root out inequities within the federal government, and to advance racial justice. He directed all agencies to complete “equity assessments” within 200 days and appointed Susan Rice, national security adviser under former President Barack Obama, to oversee the efforts. “We need to make the issue of racial equity not just an issue for any one department of gover...

Why don't we pay as much attention to the benefits of resilience as to the benefits of efficiency? We tend to get good at what we can measure, and it's easy to produce numbers that support efficiency, such as crop yields per acre. Resilience cannot be easily measured, though.

The Indigenous Seed Growers Network sprouted from the pandemic, and is quickly evolving to help communities secure their own food systems for generations to come. Since 2009, the Civil Eats editorial team has published award-winning and groundbreaking news and commentary about the American food system, and worked to make complicated, underreported stories—on climate change, the environment, social justice, animal welfare, policy, health, nutrition, and the farm bill— more accessible to a mainstream audience. Read more > Like the story?