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2050 is coming, and how it looks will be the result of what’s on our plates.

We all make small mistakes, but sometimes journalists report the complete and utter opposite of what a study really found.

It’s the rebels among us that change the world. 

There are a lot of different diet plans out there: paleo, Weight Watchers, Atkins. But if you want the best results, go vegan.

Study underlines the importance of relying on the right foods to get our sustenance — not pills.

We don’t need to eat meat, and yet we still do. Researchers sought to find out how people defended their meat-eating habits.

The forgotten aspects of art history will always be the most intriguing. Digging up the dead storylines of art history, whether in the distant or the recent past, will never end, mostly thanks to forces that buried the facts, if not the bodies, for whatever agenda. Artists and Prophets: A Secret History of Modern Art 1872-1972 at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt resurrects German visionaries and Jesus wannabes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to look at how their exploits and artistic creations helped shape the course of German and European modern art. It also shines light on how the impact of those figures fell into obscurity as another casualty of the ideological war waged by that most unfortunately unforgettable of German messianic aspirants — Adolf Hitler.

Ever feel powerless to help a cause you believe in because its troubles are a great distance away? Just because you’re far from the Brazilian rainforest or the polar ice caps or Mt. Everest doesn’t mean you can’t play an important role in protecting those places.

Ideas about religion can be so powerful that people can’t endorse them without giving up a part of their identity. It’s the same thing with diets.

Dishonesty in one domain doesn’t excuse hucksterism in another. Yet as long as healing remains a lucrative business, it’s going to remain a challenge weeding through the pretty designs and catchy slogans to find medicine that works.

Journalist Eric Schlosser, an executive producer on the film Food Chains, discusses the exploitation of poor workers in the American food system.

Do you dig social media, kung fu, ascetic lifestyles, and the color orange? If so, the Shaolin Temple has just the job for you.

When researchers analyzed thousands of table orders from an Oklahoma restaurant over the span of 19 weeks, they found that people tended to order like their friend regardless of health concerns presented by menus.

“If you want people to eat healthy food it has to taste good,” says Steven Masley, a physician, nutritionist, and a trained chef. Masley is also the author of The 30-Day […]

At the famously meat-heavy festivities, several beer tents are offering meat- and/or animal-free options on their menus. The new choices reflect the country’s changing diet demographic.

World meat demand is at an all time high, despite its lack of nutritional benefits given alternatives like beans, nuts, quinoa, and tofu.

As with the anecdotally rich discoveries in Freakonomics, practitioners of predictive analytics constantly stumble upon insightful gems such as,vegetarians miss fewer flights.

The first lab-made burger has been dubbed by some the Frankenburger. It has also been dubbed the ‘Googleburger,’ since Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, funded the $330,000 experiment as a potentially transformative project for the benefit of humanity. 

There’s a popular myth in the American yoga community that Indian vegetarianism began as a spiritual response to humanity’s place in the cosmos. The concept of ahimsa, or non-violence, is […]

You no doubt have seen it often enough, perhaps said it yourself: It’s a variation on “Only a bad person would do that!” Yet, we must also wonder about what […]

In the hours following the deaths of more than 50 Egyptians in Cairo earlier today there were wildly divergent accounts of what actually happened. Here is a summary, from Wendell […]

To help feed the world’s malnourished, a team of students at McGill University, Montreal, are putting forth a plan meant to facilitate the production of edible insects on an industrial scale.

A few weeks ago, when I published an article on vegetarianism as a political tool, I received emails and comments from people in India contesting the opening graphs, which were […]

The premise of many business books is to boldly go where no business book has ever gone before, to gather more data, to interview more executives, to read more articles […]

During our research into the explosion in popularity of Conscious Media, we noticed a broad meta trend developing that circumscribes smaller conscious“food subcultures” – such as raw foodism, veganism or […]

The American Gut Project is an open-source, community effort to better understand the diversity of our microbiomes. 

Leading water scientists look  for solutions to water and food shortages. A universal move towards vegetarian diets may help feed the projected 9 billion world population of 2050.

Upon seeing in person Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, American novelist Henry James pithily dubbed it “the saddest work of art in the world.” War, weather, da Vinci’s own […]

The burger chain will open two all-vegetarian restaurants in India next year in an attempt to appeal to pilgrims who abstain from eating meat.

A startup company has received a grant to create artificial meat using bio-ink and a 3D printing process.