When grocery prices surged across the United States during 2021 and 2022, most consumers blamed inflation. Rising fuel costs, supply-chain disruptions, labor shortages, and broader economic pressures appeared to offer a straightforward explanation for higher food bills. A newly settled antitrust case involving Agri Stats, Inc., however, has renewed a more complex debate among economists...
New York is poised to become the second U.S. state, after California, to ban potassium bromate, red dye No. 3, and propylparaben from its food supply. The bill also closes a long-debated federal regulatory loophole — and could shape national manufacturing decisions well beyond the state line. On April 21, 2026, the New York State...
Who’s Funding It, Who’s Pushing It, and What’s Standing in the Way The lab-grown food movement has a new frontier target: your morning cup of coffee. What was once confined to speculative tech conferences and fringe food blogs is now attracting hundreds of millions in venture capital, strategic investment from global food giants, and enthusiastic...
For decades, your doctor walked in, looked at your bloodwork, and delivered the verdict like a judge reading a sentence: Your cholesterol is too high. You need to go on statins. Hundreds of millions of people around the world accepted this without question. After all, high cholesterol causes heart attacks. Everyone knows that. It’s settled...
The Body Keeps the Score As the Global Food Supply Transforms, What Happens to Human Nutrition, Metabolism, and Long-Term Health? The food supply is changing faster than our understanding of what that change means for the human body. We covered the mechanics last time — how industrial seed oils have saturated processed foods, how lab-grown...