Caitlin Dewey
Medium
Buffalo, NY, United States
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The Dot-Com Don: Meet the Domain Prospector Turning Stray URLs Into Real Businesses
From VidaliaOnions.com to DudeRanch.com, domain prospector Peter Askew makes a living transforming very strange URLs into very profitable businesses. → Read More
Trump administration plans to reorganize agriculture research offices, alarming some scientists
The agency says the move will save money and help retain staff, but some researchers call that a pretext. → Read More
The future of food: Scientists have found a fast and cheap way to edit your edibles’ DNA
Oil without trans-fat? Wheat without gluten? Gene-editing technology can transform the food we eat. But are consumers on board? → Read More
Congress is about to legalize cannabis. Just not the kind that gets you high.
Congress is poised to legalize hemp. But can it live up to decades of hype? → Read More
Grain bowls, cold brew and ‘hustle’: Nestlé has a plan to bring customers back to Big Food
America’s largest food company is focused on launching new products and reinventing old ones, said the company’s new chief executive. → Read More
Trump calls on Congress to attach work requirements to food stamps
A plan to overhaul food stamps is popular with the president and House Republicans but off the table in the Senate. → Read More
Soybean farmers are surviving Trump’s trade war — even without his $12 billion aid package
Strong demand, forward contracts and existing government programs have insulated growers from the tariff’s immediate impact. → Read More
White House readies plan for $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers caught in Trump’s escalating trade war
The plan would begin sending funds to farmers in September. → Read More
Four of the world’s largest food companies have a new plan for fixing food and farm policy
Nestle, Danone, Mars and Unilever are behind the new project. → Read More
Food stamp mispayments are way up this year. It has nothing to do with fraud.
Mispayments in the food stamp program are far more common than government administrators long believed. → Read More
California, home of the first soda tax, agrees to ban them
The statewide prohibition reflects a new tactic by soda makers. → Read More
America’s cheese stockpile just hit an all-time high
Americans are drinking less milk, and it has to go somewhere. → Read More
Senate overwhelmingly passes sweeping farm bill, setting up fight with House
Bipartisan Senate bill breaks with House measure on food stamps, farm subsidies. → Read More
Government reorganization plan embraces conservative goals for the safety net
Rebranding nutrition and health programs as “public welfare” would adopt the lexicon of the right. → Read More
House narrowly passes farm bill that includes stricter work requirements for food stamps, a month after failing on first try
Legislation would impose controversial new work requirements on food stamp program → Read More
Trump wants to move food stamps to a new agency. That could make the program easier to overhaul.
The move is part of a radical pitch to overhaul the federal bureaucracy. → Read More
This start-up can make avocados last twice as long before going bad
The Apeel avocado is on sale at Costco. Lemons and asparagus could be next. → Read More
Artificial trans fats, widely linked to heart disease, are officially banned
U.S. food companies are -- for the most part -- no longer allowed to use trans fat, a once-popular ingredient now blamed for tens of thousands of premature deaths. → Read More
The U.S. diet is a climate disaster. Here are four easy fixes.
None involve going vegan. → Read More
Soda ad blitzes conspicuously match food stamp schedules, study says
Consumers are two to four times as likely to see in-store soda ads on the days states distribute food-stamp benefits. → Read More