The Counter
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Covers a range of Food topics with a focus on Politics, Business, Environment, Tech, and Culture. The Counter is a nonprofit, independent, nonpartisan newsroom investigating the forces shaping how and what America eats.
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2y ago
California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air ..read more
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2y ago
Pacific Northwest rains wash the toxic chemical that weatherizes your car tires into the watershed—a death sentence for salmon. The Nisqually Tribe and researchers are trying to find a solution ..read more
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2y ago
Big, sit-down restaurant brands are winning on a local level by offering dining experiences that appeal to the broadest audience possible. Familiarity is their secret sauce ..read more
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2y ago
Lawmakers and advocates are urging Gavin Newsom to remove immigration and age restrictions from the state’s food assistance program ..read more
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2y ago
How do today’s culinary guides reflect—and reframe—ideas about Jewishness ..read more
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2y ago
Supermarket chains can keep low-income communities from easy access to food, with a dastardly (but legal) provision they write into lease agreements ..read more
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2y ago
Farmers are giving up much-needed cropland to solar companies, but can the two work in tandem ..read more
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2y ago
Cutbacks have defined the pandemic era restaurant—but when owners invest more in their employees, everybody wins ..read more
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2y ago
The Covid relief loans were designed to keep workers employed, but fast-food franchises allocated money to their landlord, the McDonald’s corporate office ..read more
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2y ago
Programs to advance mentees’ careers often fall prey to faulty assumptions about expertise and the very barriers they profess to want to change ..read more