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World Food Day

Sustainable diets: It's not a fantasy

Published Oct 16, 2020

Climate and food systems are inextricably linked—damage to one leads to damage to the other. But improving one means improving the other, too, says global food policy expert Jess Fanzo.

Illustration of meat packers working on an assembly line while a train barrels toward them

Ailing under slaughterhouse rules

Published July 27, 2020

Like health care workers, those on the front lines of U.S. meat production are at high risk during the pandemic. The dangers don't stop at the novel coronavirus.

Commentary

Protecting food security during a pandemic

Published March 13, 2020

The government should expand access to food programs and guarantee sick leave, write Roni Neff and Erin Biehl of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future / The Hill

Protein of the future

Published Spring 2019

There are around 100 companies developing plant, seed, insect, and lab-grown meat alternatives. But will we eat it? / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Food safety

'Best by' causes confusion, waste

Published March 14, 2019

Widespread misunderstanding of food safety labels leads to food disposal and waste, survey finds

Many U.S. consumers eating less meat

Published Sept 12, 2018

Survey respondents cite health concerns, cost as reasons for reducing meat consumption

Aquaculture

Casting a wider net

Published Fall 2018

Jillian Fry works to make sure the public health crises and errors of industrial agriculture aren't repeated in a new arena—the sea / Johns Hopkins Magazine