Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Monday, September 29, 2025

Repugnance and consequence-insensitivity (in connection to opposition to genetically-engineered food)

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 There is a well developed literature on repugnance connected to food, and here is a recent, interesting example that focuses on the relatio...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Abhijit Banerjee's column on food and economics, in The Times of India

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  Abhijit Banerjee writes a monthly column on food (cooking it and eating it) and economics , in The Times of India You can see them all a...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Meat and dairy allergy ( to alpha-gal), ticks and gene-modified pigs

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 A previously rare allergy to a sugar molecule called alpha-gal, found in almost all mammals but humans, is now being spread by tick bites. ...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Chocolate fermentation and its microbiome (coming to desserts near you)

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 The Guardian brings us the latest breakthrough in chocolate science: Scientists claim to have unlocked ‘secret sauce’ needed for fine choco...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Cat food, for big cats in zoos (you could call it pet food)

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 Zoos are complicated. Here's the story from NPR: A zoo in Denmark asked patrons to donate their pets. Not as attractions, but for food ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Incinerating food aid

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 Here's a story from The Atlantic about a decision that captures the Trump administration's policies towards food aid, carbon emissi...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Cellular agriculture points the way to removing killing from the food chain

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Here's a story from the Washington Post about growing fish-flesh and meat from cells in a lab. The story emphasizes sustainability, but ...
Friday, May 9, 2025

Cacao, cocoa, and coca (Etymology meets botany, agriculture and health)

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Cocoa and cacao and coca?  Which one of these three things is different from the other two? (I'll leave the harder question of milk vers...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Drinking less but paying more

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 Bloomberg has the story: We May Have Already Hit Peak Booze. A habit as old as civilization is fading from our society.  By David Fickling
Monday, April 21, 2025

Food: from luxuries to tragedies--chocolate and peanut butter at the opposite ends of human welfare

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Below are two stories about food, that couldn't be more different (although the foods, chocolate and peanut butter, have some connection...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Climate crisis contributing to chocolate market meltdown

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 The canary in the coalmine that is climate change is starting to show important signs of stress. The Guardian has this story: Climate crisi...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

It's illegal to sell cicada infused liquor in Illinois

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 Alcohol and insects don't mix in Illinois.   The Chicago Sun Times has the story: Suburban brewery fined for selling cicada-infused Mal...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Black markets in everything bagels (in S. Korea)

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 South Korea is not a hub of everything bagels, it turns out. In fact they are banned. The NYT has the story: Why Everything Bagel Seasoning...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Baby formula and U.S. supply chains

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 Martha Gershon points me to her latest column, to be followed in due time by a book on feeding babies in America. The U.S. needs a reliable...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Does high pay equal "undue inducement"? An experiment by Sandro Ambuehl

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  Here's an experiment about repugnant transactions, by Sandro Ambuehl . Ambuehl, Sandro, " An experimental test of whether financi...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

When "demand can't keep up with supply"

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Headlines catch my eye more often than subheadlines, but the story below was the exception that proves the rule (a confusing saying in itsel...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving cranberries (brought to you by the Ocean Spray cranberry cooperative)

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  The WSJ has the story: These People Are Responsible for the Cranberry Sauce You Love to Hate   By Ben Cohen "Ocean Spray['s...] f...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

The international market for squid (and how squid came to be calamari...)

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China's fishing fleet plays a giant role in the international market for squid. The New Yorker has the story: THE CRIMES BEHIND THE SEAF...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Repugnance watch: British satire considers cellular agriculture in human meat

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In The Conversation: The British Miracle Meat: how banning repugnant choices obscures the real issue of poverty   by Renaud Foucart " A...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Black market for mustard in Bogotá

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 The NYT has the story: Colombia’s Mustard Lovers Grow Desperate Amid Saucy Shortage of Dijon . Colombians are scrambling to find the belove...