Tag: Food
Government restrictions on labeling products as ‘meat’ aren’t likely to help...
Trey Malone, Michigan State University and Brandon McFadden, University of Delaware
Substitutes for traditional meat products have captured the attention of investors, the media and...
5 charts show how your household drives up global greenhouse gas...
Morteza Taiebat, University of Michigan and Ming Xu, University of Michigan
As the public conversation about climate change gets increasingly serious, many Americans may be...
‘I’ll have what she’s having’ – how and why we copy...
Kelly L. Haws, Vanderbilt University; Brent McFerran, Simon Fraser University, and Peggy Liu, University of Pittsburgh
Imagine you’re dining out at a casual restaurant with...
Climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food supplies
Deepak Ray, University of Minnesota
Farmers are used to dealing with weather, but climate change is making it harder by altering temperature and rainfall patterns,...
US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal
Maywa Montenegro, University of California, Davis; Annie Shattuck, University of California, Berkeley, and Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University
These are difficult times in farm country....
Ack! I need chocolate! The science of PMS food cravings
Sara Twogood, University of Southern California
Premenstrual food cravings are the punchline of endless jokes. Like most good jokes, they’re funny because they’re true.
Certain parts...
Why some plastic packaging is necessary to prevent food waste and...
Manoj Dora, Brunel University London and Eleni Iacovidou, Brunel University London
There has been a surge in awareness of the damage that plastic pollution does...
Softer, processed foods changed the way ancient humans spoke
Steven Moran, University of Zürich and Balthasar Bickel, University of Zürich
The human capacity for language divides our species from the rest of the animal...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
