Help keep Salon independent

Ryan Nebeker

Basket of fresh organic vegetables (Getty Images/Tatiana Krakowiak)

Busting common myths about organic food

Ryan Nebeker

A Muffuletta sandwich at Central Grocery in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Is flawed food policy responsible for listeria outbreaks in deli meats?

Ryan Nebeker

Factory production of cooking oils (Getty Images/sarymsakov)

Cooking oils and sustainability

Ryan Nebeker

Roast Chicken In A Petri Dish (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Nearly a year after USDA approval, lab meat is still off the menu

Ryan Nebeker

Crew members of purse seiner hauling in net while fishing for salmon (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

The collapse of fishing giant Blue Harvest exposes the weakness of catch share policies

Ryan Nebeker

Harvesting alfalfa crop, aerial view. (Getty Images)

PFAS disclosures from the Department of Defense cause fear and uncertainty for farmers

Ryan Nebeker

Mexican laborers cut broccoli stalks for Smith Farms' crew A as the harvest season gets underway at a Smith Farm's field near Fort Fairfield in central Aroostook County. Smith Farm's employ over 150 migrant workers to help in their harvest of both broccoli and potatos. (John Ewing/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

It’s been a big year for the labor movement. What about farmworkers?

Ryan Nebeker

Maize or corn in a basket (Getty Images/undefined)

Escalating U.S.-Mexico debate over corn forces questions about GMOs, food sovereignty

Ryan Nebeker

Microwave popcorn (Getty Images/Aleksandar Jankovic)

Regulators may finally be responding to growing alarm over PFAS contamination

Ryan Nebeker

Burger Meat On Barbecue Grill (Getty Images / Heath Cajandig / EyeEm)

Could we all be buying lab-grown meat soon?

Ryan Nebeker

Fair Trade Coffee is on sale at Starbucks October 24, 2001 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The basics of fair trade labels

Ryan Nebeker

Pigs in the pasture (Getty Images/Neumann & Rodtmann)

How Hormel exploited confusion over the natural label

Ryan Nebeker

Crew members of purse seiner hauling in net while fishing for salmon (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

Untangling catch shares with Lee van der Voo

Ryan Nebeker

Chicken in battery cages (Getty Images/Grafissimo)

With Proposition 12, the Supreme Court could be ruling on more than factory farms

Ryan Nebeker

Garbage trucks unload garbage to a landfill (Getty Images/Avigator Photographer)

More than just litter: The relationship between plastic and climate change

Ryan Nebeker

Burning sugar cane in South Florida (Getty Images/Chromagnon)

What you need to know about sugarcane burning

Ryan Nebeker

A farmers market in operation during COVID-19. (Getty Images)

We need to better protect food and farmworkers during COVID-19 and beyond

Ryan Nebeker

Man walking through agave fields in the town of Tequila, near Guadalajara, Jalisco State, Mexico. (Getty Images)

The sustainability challenges that threaten the agave industry

Ryan Nebeker