Family farms and ranches are going out of business. Many hope the new administration will deliver reforms, but remain skeptical over trade, antitrust issues.

Americans will eat 30 million turkeys this Thanksgiving, but numbers are at a nearly 40-year low amid waning demand and waves of bird flu. 

"Weight-loss drugs are reshaping consumption, and our analysis shows GLP-1s are set to erase $53 billion ... 

People with certain food intolerances may benefit from the change, the company said.

Sorry, Bill Gates, fake food and insects are not on the menu.

The "Big Four" meat packers — JBS (Brazil), Cargill, Tyson Foods, and National Beef — currently dominate 85% of the...

...the United States, Argentina and Australia are at the top of the global meat-eating league...

Could their high-tech approach to age-old practices change the game for other ranchers? 

"We are working on beef, and I think we have a deal on beef that's going to bring the price" down."

 

This is a matter of national security... 

This is happening just as more science is showing how essential beef is for human health.

The fast-food giant will invest $200 million in a bid to restore and steward up to 4 million acres of US rangeland...

"Food-grade plastics deteriorate significantly at temperatures above 40 degrees centigrade. Put a food-grade plastic teabag in near-boiling water, and it rapidly..." 

The best bang for the buck in the grocery store protein aisle this year hasn't been beef, it's been eggs. Prices have plummeted... 

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"However, we expect egg fundamentals to normalize over the coming year as the supply backdrop..." 

Potato prep affects diabetes risk, but their high glycemic index remains.

Bee colonies in the United States are being decimated by mites that have developed immunity to a key pesticide. 

Not good...

"Ultra-processed foods tend to be hyperpalatable, energy-dense, low in dietary fiber, and contain little or no whole foods..."